The American Dream is what fathers of this country set out for, but yet, sometime between present day and 1776 the dream became skewed as F. Scott Fitzgerald shows in the classic book The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald illustrates the demise of the American dream. The lying, scheming, cheating, and unethical characters, shown in The Great Gatsby represent the same people with different names in today's society. Corruption has been part of politics and wealth even before …showed first 75 words of 550 total…

…showed last 75 words of 550 total…one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known" (64). The American dream may still have hope to succeed, but there will always be the Buchanans, and Gatsbys in this world. Yet, if this country has any hope of actually achieving the American dream set of for by the fathers of this country it is in the hands of people like Nick Carraway.