The 1920’s became the time for everyone to be alive in, the economy was booming and prosperity was “everywhere.” People were partying like never before. The music, it was louder than ever. Everything was bigger and more extravagant. Those who came to America expected a land that was filled with everything anyone had ever dreamed of. A land with opportunities like they had never seen before. They wanted nothing but to succeed in this new land. And so the dreams that they set for themselves were big and unattainable. They dreamed bigger and bigger each time until one day it seemed so near that slowly it fell out of their grasps. The characters as well as the last passage in Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby symbolize the unreachable dreams of the 1920’s,
