With Toni, her goal is to escape her past and learn who she is; while Gatsby wants to create a new character and build a new name for himself. Gatsby continues to want to do these things in part to achieve his American dream; he had his rights, but he wants equal opportunities, the girl of his dreams and the estate of his dreams, essentially he wants everything that is external. On the other hand, Toni wants to find out who and where her parents are so she can discover her true identity. For many, losing their childhood home pushes them to find something deeper. When the orphanage, The Benevolent Home for Necessitous Girls, burned down, Toni had the chance to discover who she was and is; the fire traced a path for her to follow. Gatsby was not thrown into a life he couldn't choose for himself, nor did he have clues to finding himself. Gatsby chose to leave his poor farm life with his parents to live a life as a self-made man. “'I found out what your 'pharmacies' were.' He turned to us and spoke quickly. “He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. This is one of his little stunts. I chose him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn't far wrong.'" (Fitzgerald 141) Gatsby broke many laws, from selling bootleg liquor to using his carte blanche of superiority to avoid a speeding fine. For Toni, the breakup