C.+The+Epic+Nation(Gatsby+Essay)

The American nation has been one to rule, and explore the planet and its surroundings. Ever since it became the worlds only superpower, the American people have been striving for the America described in James Truslow Adams', "The Epic of America", "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position." This is the core of the American Dream //**essentially**// : to not just to have the things by which to live by with, but to have the things in which to live.

The way I could compare this to F. Fitzgeralds novel "The Great Gatsby", is that Jay was and still is striving for Daisy, as in Chapter 2, Daisy exclaimed "Gatsby, what Gatsby"?, Jay does not realize that Daisy has gotten over him, and that because he lived for Daisy, he can no longer live.