The American dream is dead. This being one of the main themes of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald gives us a glimpse of upper-class life during the turmoil of the Roaring Twenties through the eyes of a didactic young man named Nick Carraway. Through the narrator's relationships with high society, readers discover how unsuccessful Gatsby's quest for the American dream is. Typically, the "American" dreamer aspires to rise in upper-class society, while accumulating things such as love, high status, wealth, and power to reach the top. Fitzgerald attributes the destruction of the American dream to the lack of humanity fostered by wealth and privilege. We see this clearly through Gatsby's impure view of what exactly the American dream is, right from the start with Daisy Buchanan. Although young Gatsby falls in love with Daisy, he is obsessed with her fascinating wealth. Fitzgerald analyzes the legitimacy of this principle through the inevitable fall of Jay Gatsby. The main qualities of the American dream presented in The Great Gatsby are determined....