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Too Hard To Achieve The American Dream In The Great Gatsby

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The American Dream started back in the early 1900’s when James Truslow was referring to “That dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement” The American Dream has always been associated with social mobility, the dream that anybody no matter how poor could become millionaire or the President of the U.S. Back then, it was not easy to achieve the American Dream, people struggled hard to achieve it and some might have even failed at it. Throughout The Great Gatsby, Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Myrtle lived the American Dream but not everybody has a good start. For example, in the beginning Gatsby explains how he got his money by saying that he inherited
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