Topic > The Importance of the American Dream in The Catcher In…

In the novel The Great Gatsby, when Daisy, Nick and Gatsby are walking through Gatsby's house admiring it, Gatsby tells Daisy to: "'Look at this, ' . . 'Here's a lot of clippings about you.'” (Fitzgerald 93) Gatsby has had special feelings towards Daisy for many, many years which will ultimately make him happy. He also knows he has access to the right resources he needs to impress her. A combination of Gatsby's love for Daisy and the happiness that would come if he achieved his dream, he finds the determination to do it all. what he needs to impress Daisy and hopefully win her over. A second novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, also shows the relationship between family and happiness that leads to the determination to achieve once the other patients on the ward they became accustomed to McMurphy and became his friends, “The acute patients began to follow [McMurphy's] example. Harding began flirting with all the student nurses, and Billy Bibbit stopped writing completely. . . 'observations' in the logbook” (Kesey 208). As the other patients grow closer to McMurphy as friends, they learn to trust him more and do some of the things he does. They start doing bolder things which more often than not break the rules of the ward. The friendship that the