Gatsby is a character in the short novel The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, used as an example of a victim of the American dream. According to Joseph Yumang of Coastlinejournal.org he believes that the American dream has changed rapidly: "Advertising, the ruling elite and the media, however, have diluted people's idea of ​​success, making them believe that wealth, power and fame are the only paths to success." American Dream”. Jay Gatsby is a man who lives the so-called "American dream", he owns a large mansion, spends money like crazy, throws big parties every week, wears clothes of every color and style, has everything anyone would want. His wealth was not inherited or obtained in a morally righteous manner, but was instead spilled over from his illegal underground liquor business during Prohibition. This business gave Gatsby the unlimited funds needed to afford everything he could and live a lavish life among the wealthy. Gatsby had a reputation for being a mysterious boy with much speculation about his past. Gatsby knew every important person in New York and every important person knew him; almost no one from the lower social classes knew who he really was until his death but one thing was certain, Gatsby's name was known to everyone. He lived the life of what most people would call the American Dream, but it didn't actually bring him happiness. Gatsby did not start from the top of the social ladder, but had to climb little by little until he reached the top. Before Gatsby's rise to power, he created his own upper class persona. With the character change Gatsby went from Jimmy Gatz to Jay Gatsby, a fictional character created to fit in with the upper class. Gatsby's wealth, fame and social class are what most people... center of paper....... He firmly believed that if he could convince Daisy that he was the "perfect" man " for her she would have gone with him. Gatsby had almost achieved what he was looking for until his true face of corruption and false past was revealed, he lost everything, happiness was no longer within reach from that point on. Fitzgerald used Gatsby's social status to demonstrate that even reaching the top of the social ladder is not enough to truly find happiness or the “American Dream” of getting to the top. Gatsby was a victim believing that if he could reach the same class as Daisy he could have her, but Gatsby's flaw was that he was born into a poor class and Daisy into an upper class from the beginning. With this disadvantage Gatsby had to falsify his style and attitude, transforming himself from Jimmy Gatz into the false character of Jay Gatsby..