PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

Introduction

In todays society, people spend their whole life searching for happiness. It can be argued that people will never find true happiness, because as humans, we dont know what it means to be truly happy. Many believe that achieving true happiness can only be done by achieving the American Dream first. However, once an individual achieves the American Dream, will he or she truly be happy? Is money happiness? Through characters Jay Gatsby from the novel The Great Gatsby, and Christopher Gardner from the movie The Pursuit of Happyness, true happiness will be compared and contrasted as it pertains ...