F. Scott Fitzgerald focuses mostly on the crooked side of the American Dream in his novel, The Great Gatsby, revealing the immorality of his stratum and generation. His …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald suggests that the American Dream is not obtainable due to the infinite conflict between riches and morality which causes those with integrity to fail and those with amoral values to have empty success. In his book he shows the cheaters as triumphant and the scrupulous as failures. Even today the theme of a nonexistent American Dream survives. The working class works hard all year long to keep the high class up high while never getting the opportunity to move up in class. The holographic nature of this ideal still fools people today. All over the world families fall apart because the parents are too busy working for the better life to keep them together or even notice the damage. According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, the American Dream is dead, in fact, it never truly