The Great Gatsby - Death of the American Dream In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, all the characters are, in one way or another, attempting to achieve a state of happiness in their lives. The main characters are divided into two groups; the rich upper class and the poorer lower class, which struggles to attain a higher position. Though the major players seek only to change their lives for the better, the idealism of the American …showed first 75 words of 918 total…

…showed last 75 words of 918 total…of the American Dream in his narrative descriptions of the characters, where all the immoral people have the money and the moral ones are the poor lower class. The American Dream is something all people work toward to some extent, yet it is doomed to failure as its ideals conflict with the reality of life. Although it is an admirable goal, it is an unobtainable one. The American Dream is just that - a dream.