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In the article, What happens to the american dream in a recession?, by Katharine Seelye, we know the American Dream has changed. “Someone can start from nothing”.(Seelye2). This quote relates to the novel because gatsby started life with a poor family, through his choises he became a rich man. That was his dream because he wanted to be with daisy, the girl he loved. Daisy was already rich.

In the novel //The Great Gatsby,//Gatsby’s American Dream was to be rich and also be with daisy. Early on in Gatsby’s life he changed his name because he did not want to have any relation to his poor family. After that he was a fisherman on a boat. Gatsby hosts a lot of parties when he got rich in his big house. To Gatsby, Daisy’s “voice sounds like money”. He thinks that because all the time all she thinks about and talks about is money.