The American Dream, working hard and achieving your goal in gaining money and being in the higher social ranks, the upper echelon among the middle class. People back then seem to have a “get rich or die trying” type of attitude. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald a novel given in a point of view from a man named Nick who sees the American dream and how it can be hard to handle. The novel has a many examples of how if you don't know how handle your money right It can screw you over in the future and crush you even more if you can't find no love with it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald shows how the the American dream is good when living it but creates consequences once you start to chase it. In the novel a rich man named Gatsby throws huge parties in which the whole city comes out to join. According to text Nick says “There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.” This meaning that he has money to throw big parties but rumors about the way he came up on his american dream are told by the people in his parties. …show more content…
According to what Nick hears about Gatsby at his parties starts to make Nick think about who Gatsby really is, Given this quote “Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.”A thrill passed over all of us. The three Mr “I don’t think it’s so much THAT,” argued Lucille sceptically; “it’s more that he was a German spy during the war.”One of the men “I heard that from a man who knew all about him, grew up with him in Germany,” he assured us positively.“Oh, no,” said the first girl, “it couldn’t be that, because he was in the American army during the war.”. The rumors in his parties starts to make other people think that he committed crimes which led to his