After the end of World War I, America seemed to be a promised land of opportunity for people willing to work for it. However, for some, it corrupted them as they set out to achieve the American Dream by acquiring wealth for the sole purpose of pursuing pleasure. The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald that shows that no one is immune from corruption. This novel is seen through the eyes of Nick Carraway, who moves from the Mid-West to the West Egg to pursue his American dream. He observes the people and events around him as he follows his neighbor Jay Gatsby's attempts to win back Daisy Buchanan's love. Throughout the novel, the characters seem to enjoy the freedom of the 1920s, but this ends when the characters are shown to have miserable lives. George and Myrtle Wilson both want to rise up the social classes, but they approach it in two different ways. With George, he follows the rules and tries to progress as a hard worker, but his wife Myrtle is completely the opposite, she is so intent on being in a higher class that she loses her morals and cheats on her husband. With a similar idea, Gatsby has been blinded by love and tries to win back Daisy's love, no matter what it costs, using his illegally gained wealth. We see these empty lives and the corruptions of the American Dream in the novel through the character of George Wilson's honesty and fruitless hard work, Myrtle Wilson's lost morals, and Gatsby's single-minded attempt to recreate the past while Nick is shown to be without sympathy . and despises the lower class and only admires the person with whom he identifies. Although George Wilson is the most honest and hard-working man in town, he is one of those people who suffers from the failure of America... middle of paper......the new generation who is rich and who is not afraid to spend all the money and flaunt your wealth. This shows how much people in the 1920s were interested in money and their economic status. Fitzgerald points out the flaw in the American dream of being obsessed with wealth. The American Dream can be approached in many directions and ways to define it. The definition and main idea of ​​this theory is success. Throughout Fitzgerald's novel the concept of the American dream and being successful is seen primarily through obtaining all the wealth and achieving high economic status. We see this through the lives of George Wilson, Myrtle Wilson, Jay Gatsby, and Nick Carraway, however they all result in corruption and ultimately a miserable life. Because the American dream is interpreted differently, it is still constantly used and continues to be a concept in society.