The American Dream has been around for many years. This has been the goal for many Americas, as well as immigrants throughout the world. The whole point of the American Dream was to achieve wealth, love, happiness, and power. In order to achieve the American Dream I was through hard work and determination. The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald was made during the 1920, which was a period where there was corruption and crime. The whole point of the novel is to show how the pure characteristic of the American dream was deteriorating. Moral values were declining. This was a time were religion wasn’t the basis of life and people fought in order to achieve their dreams by any means necessary. This novel shows the segregation between the rich and the poor. The West egg versus the Valley of Ashes, and Gatsby verses Buchanan.
Nick Carraway, the narrator of the story is the one who witnesses these observations. “I waited and sure enough, in a moment she looked at me with an......
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