With Toni, her goal is to escape her past and find out who she is; while Gatsby wants to create a new character and build a new name for himself. Gatsby continues to aspire to do these things as part of achieving his American dream; he had his rights, but he wants equal opportunities, the girl of his dreams and the estate of his dreams, he basically wants everything external. On the other hand, Toni wants to find out who and where her parents are in order to discover her true identity. For many, losing our childhood home pushes us to find something deeper. When the orphanage, The Benevolent Home for Necessitous Girls, burned down, Toni was given the choice to discover who she was and is; the fire marked out a path for him to follow. Gatsby wasn't thrown into a life he couldn't choose for himself, nor did he have any clues to find himself. Gatsby chose to leave his poor farm life with his parents to live the life of a self-made man. "'I found out what your 'pharmacies' were." He turned to us and spoke quickly. “He and this Wolfsheim bought up many drugstores here and in Chicago and were selling grain alcohol without a prescription. It's one of his little waterfalls. I picked him for a smuggler the first time I saw him, and I wasn't exactly wrong. " (Fitzgerald 141) Gatsby broke many laws, from selling moonshine to using his carte blanche superiority to escape a police speeding ticket. .For Toni, breaking