Ever since January of 2017, there has been a total of 64,070 deaths caused by drug overdoses in the United States, and that number only continues to increase (“Provisional Courts”). However, drugs are not the only problem in the U.S. Alcoholism continues to be a dispute as well. Since January 1st of 2017, 95,251 people have been killed due to alcohol related circumstances (“2017 Real”). Jay Gatsby does not become addicted to a particular substance, rather a particular person. Addiction continues to be a complication in the United States today, just as Jay Gatsby is an addict of recreating his past with Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby’s obsession was throughout 1917 and 1922, where he is preoccupied
