The American dream can be portrayed in many ways and there are may routs to getting there. As in immigrant rising to the top or a person rising out of poverty. The American dreams seem like picket white fence and matching homes. A happy family free of fear and living happily. Nowadays is it even possible to achieve this any more. It seems like chaos and disaster is tearing families apart. With cheating husbands, orphaned children and divorce cases. A wonderful piece written by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby. This is a great piece filled with many emotions and different turns you wouldn’t expect. With characters such as Jay Gatsby, daisy Buchanan, Nick Caraway, Myrtle Wilson and Meyer Wolfsheim etc. This story portrays the American dream