F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is an iconic piece of American literature, for the book not only captures the American Dream through the portrayal of the titular Gatsby, but also contains a great life lesson, which would benefit me for the rest of my life journey: one cannot fabricate the past out of the present. Gatsby is a dreamer, a loyalist to the American Dream, where a person from the lower class can rise to the upper class and attain wealth and fame. But, what is wrong with that? There is, of course, nothing wrong with Gatsby living the American Dream; however, the problem is how he manipulates the American Dream to relive the past. Notably, Gatsby argues with Nick who asserts that one cannot “repeat the past”: “Why of course
