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You have some excellent ideas and questions. I like how you raise the question about Daisy being a "nice" girl. I know we talked a little about that passage a little bit in class, but I don't know if we really articulated what the word "nice" infers, especially since Fitzgerald puts in quotation marks. I was hoping to hear what you think it means.

Overall, I agree that Gatsby failed in his hopes and dreams. You make an interesting connection to Alma and Arturo. In fact, it appears that a common theme in the stuff we've read so far is a failure to achieve the American Dream--remember Willy Loman? So it makes me wonder if it's a case of these characters not making it or of the Dream being unattainable. Any thoughts about that? Definitely worth considering further.

Thanks for the work!

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Fitzgerald portrays the green light as the American Dream Gatsby is striving for. In the "Book of Unknown Americans," Alma and Arturo can relate to not wanting the American Dream, but not being able to quick reach it.  Alma mentions, “[They] filled out the papers and waited nearly a year before they let [them] come” (Henriquez 181). Although Gatsby doesn't face racism like Alma's family, he definitely did not conquer the American Dream.

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Gatsby had a lot of willpower and hope. He changes to "James Gatz--that was really, or at least legally, his name” (98). In order to become a changed person, he changes his name from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby. Gatsby "wanted to recover something, some idea perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy" (110). He doesn't know what that idea is, but that's what the future is for. The future is exciting for Gatsby. He had dreams. He keeps running for his dreams, but just keeps going in a cycle. Gatsby tries to go forward but just keeps on going backwards. Nothing is achieved, and it's said to say... in his own eyes, Gatsby is a failure.

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Gatsby doesn't want to be a failure. He sees himself as someone he is not, quite the opposite actually. He wasn't born into wealth, he got money by doing illegal activities. Towards the end of the novel, we find out that Tom had told Wilson that Gatsby basically killed Myrtle with his car. The readers as well as Nick notice Daisy and Tom "[smash] up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made" (179). Daisy and Tom don't face the consequences of killing Myrtle only because they are rich. Even though Gatsby had wealth, he wasn't born into a wealthy family.

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Gatsby wants to be with Daisy. He wants all of the best qualities to show Daisy he is good enough for her. But at last, Gatsby realizes Daisy has moved on. Still, "he was clutching at some last hope" (148). Gatsby hoped Daisy would come back around for him. He hoped that Daisy could love him the same way he did "five years before" (110). All Daisy cares about is money. She's in it for the wealth. And if that is what she looks for in a man, Gatsby will bring it to the table. Gatsby mentions Daisy as the "nice girl," but was she really? Leaving him while she goes into "her rich house, into her rich, full life" (149). Does that really sound like a "nice" girl?

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Why was he entitled to the American Dream? 

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Why was he entitled to the American Dream? 

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Jay Gatsby STRIVES For The American Dream

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Jay Gatsby STRIVES For The American Dream