In the book Gatsby there are a lot of chapters talking about the American Dream. Gatsby is very open minded about his American dream and is humble about it. As for Daisy and Tom they are extremely wealthy but unhappy. They both choose to have affairs. The American dream is the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. Gatsby represents the American dream because he is born of humble beginnings and rises to a position of wealth and power. In The Great Gatsby the American Dream plays a big role. In it you can see what happened to it during the 1920s. The values have totally changed, instead of striving for equality, they
