Part 2 -- Aurora (Jialu) Yang-- The shared idea about American Dream between The Great Gatsby and other media

👉Part 2

George Wilson: 
No Money💸（low-status）

spiritless, anaemic😶

hard-working🔧🔨, meek😌

He took the heavy burden of life but still with hope✨. His faith is to give his wife, Myrtle💃, a better life. NEVERTHELESS, he lost this hope at last.😔

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The ideal prospect that American Dream depicted is unattainable❌ by the poor, because the gap between rich and poor cannot❌ be removed, which let the poor cannot❌ win through the dilemma and let them cannot❌ touch the things they want to achieve.

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Stands for LOW-STATUS in "The Great Gatsby" written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the debut of George has already showed the tough situation of the poor. The place he lived is a valley of ashes(a slum area), which is the only way between Longland and New York. Everyday, the rich drove through this area🚘🚖, but they pay no attention to the people there. Here implies the whole society's low regard for the poor.

Imagine, when the people in difficult are marginalized by society, how could they find a chance to gain a better life in it❓

For George himself, all the assets he has is a repair shop and a dust-covered Ford. He wanted to get some business from Tom and repair the car for him to improve his family's living quality, but the ironic thing is that the purpose of Tom's visit is just to have affairs with his wife💕, Myrtle Wilson. 
The hopeful💖 idea of American Dream is just like the expectations that Tom gave to George, which is a false illusion💀💔. The inequality between the rich and the poor gives the rich more power to fool and consume the poor intangibly, by conducting that, the rich satisfied themselves with a sense of superiority. Here is a dialogue between Tom and George in Chapter 7: 

" 'Let's have some gas!' cried Tom roughly. 'What do you think we stopped for-to admire the view?’

'I'm sick,' said Wilson without moving. 'Been sick all day.’

'What's the matter?’

'I'm all run down.’

'Well, shall I help myself?' Tom demanded. 'You sounded well enough on the phone.' " (Fitzgerald 129-130)

This quotation embodies the differences in social status among the rich and the poor in a great extent. The tone of Tom is always authoritative. He neglected the bad physical condition of George naturally. And in the whole process, George does not have any chances to resist because of the living environment is harsh still. He was eager for that refueling charge to live.

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Did George achieve his American Dream?

The answer is absolutely NO❌. All he needs was just a stable living environment and a lovely family💑🏡. To realize that, he gave ALL his energy💪. He tried to earn that on his own so hard and when he ran out of emotions, he still wanted to keep that by using the method of escape. However, all his dream ended with the accident death of Myrtle💀; and at last he has been utilized and became the tool of revenge among the rich. His desperate love❤ towards his wife took all the light🌟(hope) away from his life. In another word, the unrealizable American Dream gradually strips out the humanity from the poor. Consider their passivity and helplessness, that is WHY this mournful change made them become the victims of the era.

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Who is responsible?

The society should take the responsibility for George's miserable ending😥. It is clear that people at the bottom of society do not have ability and surplus energy to make their live better; what they cost on struggle for safety is already too much. So for the government, they should not only give them a direction to image that light of hope💭❌. Instead, let the poor actually see👀 and touch that hope. Some subsidies in aid-to-poor policy is necessary. Also, one bad social phenomena has been reflected in the novel is also worthy to be discussed that the rich make fun of the poor. This shows the depressive side of humanity and indicates the fact that the indifference of the high-status aggravated the pain of the low-status.

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George Wilson shared a same destiny with the main character, George and Lennie, in "Of Mice and Men". From George Wilson's oppressive outcome to George was forced to kill his friend under the social circumstance and Lennie's death with hope, all of these reveal the inevitable wreckage of American Dream and the impenetrability of the class division. As same as the idea throughout the news, they illustrate the hardness and lowliness of the poor living in the society and the hollowness of the policy.

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