The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the great American novel. It is full of the disillusioned, the skeptics, the hypocrites and the careless dreamers of New York high society. The characters are reckless in the way they live, hurting each other and having fake relationships, abandoning people. The characters betray each other, over and over throughout the novel, question Gatsby's sincerity, and are horrible people. This novel really breaks the traditions related to the purity of the American dream; reflects the contemporary American experience. It does this thanks to the characters' inattention, as well as their hypocrisy and skepticism. In today's world we celebrate careless people, reckless celebrities who get away with breaking the law, and pharmaceutical companies who don't care what they do. it's killing people. It's as if having money gives someone the right to be careless. This shown in every major character in The Great Gatsby, one character, Jordan Baker, comes out and says she is careless. Tom and Daisy are careless in how they think their actions will have no consequences, the sad thing is, that's true, and Daisy doesn't get sent to prison for running over and killing a woman and Tom gets away with having an affair. Not to mention Nick doesn't tell his "friend" Tom anything about Daisy and Gatsby, doesn't tell Gatsby about the nasty rumors he hears about him, isn't noble or thoughtful and just casually watches as these people destroy lives . Even Gatsby is careless, not only in the way he throws away money, but because he is overly confidant. He's careless in the way he completely acts like someone he's not, calling people "old sport" and flaunting... middle of paper... adapted to the contemporary American experience. The people who go to all of Gatsby's parties are hypocrites, saying horrible things about their host, Gatsby letting them come to his evil parties and in the end they don't even go to his funeral, not even Daisy went. She abandons true love. The Great Gatsby does not follow the traditional American dream of being in progress or of the triumph of the individual, of his grit, of his modernity. the characters are careless and hypocritical. The novel refers more to the modern "American Dream" or perhaps more appropriately, the modern American deadline, where just because someone doesn't respect their morals or acts without thinking, doesn't mean they aren't considered good people. Even though the characters in The Great Gatsby may be "terrible", they are just like the rest of American society, they drink, party, lie and cheat.