Success doesn't come to those who are simply ambitious and goal oriented but those who realize that hard work is a necessity. In The Great Gatsby, ever since he was a young boy, Gatsby tried to not be anything like how his parents where and thought the only way to be successful was to have money. Throughout the book, the reader is led to believe that Nick's neighbor was a wealthy pharmacist by the name of Jay Gatsby but it wasn't until his death that his father revealed who he was, to Nick, in this quote from the book, "His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people — his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God — a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that — and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end" (Fitzgerald 73). Jay Gatsby, or who he actually was, James Gatz was a dirt poor seventeen year old boy who decided that he didn't want to have anything to do with the life he was living in so he worked hard to create this alternate life of his with even a medal from the war he said he attended to make it believable that he was a man of great success and money, he did what he needed to, to make his vision of what a dirt poor kid would believe a rich man be, to become truth. He bought a luxurious house, he hosted these magnificent and great parties, he had an abundance of food and clothing, everything he thought would make him be the man he envisioned as a boy. Also in the book, Fitzgerald wrote, "Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry" (Fitzgerald 66). Fitzgerald is saying that Americans will, if push comes to shove, work as a servant and follow someone's orders to get by but never stoop down to be a peasant man. Which in essence is they will go to the lowest point possible in the needs to fulfill their goals but never quit, never stop trying to obtain in becoming someone greater. Fitzgerald does not only write about the hard work and determination that comes with achieving a goal but that it is a necessity

Haha, look at me trying to be rich and impressive. Do you think I need more flowers?