Fitzgerald makes a connection between the American dream and Gatsby's dream. Gatsby's dream only acts as a symbol for the idea of the American dream that led to a corrupt, materialistic, and immoral society that was obsessed with wealth and social status. Like Gatsby's endless attempts to achieve his idea of the American dream, we ourselves will try with our own dreams. We all will strive, like Gatsby, to reach an "unattainable dream" like his, sometimes we will never reach our dream but it is in human nature to keep on persevering. All of us, like Gatsby, will "beat on Boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." There is Gatsby in you, in me; there is Gatsby in all of
