The American Dream is dead. This, being one of the main themes of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald gives us a glimpse into the life of the upper class during the hustle and bustle of the Roaring Twenties through the eyes of a didactic young man named Nick Carraway. Through the narrator's relationships with high society, readers are shown how Gatsby's search for the American dream is fruitless. Typically, the “American” dreamer aspires to rise in upper-class society, accumulating such things as love, high status, wealth, and power on his way to the top. Fitzgerald attributes the destruction of the American dream to the lack of humanity fostered by wealth and privilege. We see this clearly through Gatsby's impure view of what exactly the American Dream is, right from the start with Daisy Buchanan. Although young Gatsby falls in love with Daisy, he is obsessed with her charming wealth. Fitzgerald analyzes the legitimacy of this principle through the inevitable downfall of Jay Gatsby. The main qualities of the American dream presented in The Great Gatsby are crucial...