THE GREAT GATSBY The American Dream is in my opinion the ideals set by families in America to achieve goals that are generally unrealistic to achieve. An example would be the picture of a wealthy middle class family with two children, one boy and one girl, with a dog and a cat all in a nice house with two loving parents and they all get along with no problems whatsoever. The American Dream can also …showed first 75 words of 1133 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1133 total…message that I recieved after reading this book THE GREAT GATSBY, by F. Scott Fitzgerald is that just because you have a lot of money, or you have a good life and everything is going fine it doesn't mean that they are. You could be at the the best point in your life and have finally achieved your goals, but that doesn't mean that something won't go wrong and wreck your whole life for you.