America was first thought as an land of new opportunities for the pilgrims that sailed from Europe to settle the new mysterious land, they originally moved here to escape from their governments oppression. In 1776, the Thirteen Colonies declared their independence and waged war against the tyrant country known as Great Britain, through the next two centuries settlers all across the world migrated to this land to grab a little piece of their own American Dream, either dilused, crazed, or if someone whispered the words of madness into their ears that “All men are created equal”.

But in the 1920’s The American Dream seem to be an actual thing, the nation benefited greatly as the economy was on a spectacular rise due to the newly founded “Consumer Culture”, new …show more content…
The book had several key elements that described what the Roaring Twenties were like, but as a reader myself I immediately picked up on the “American Dream” element of the story. Within the book were a few characters that lived by this, probably the main one would be Jay Gatsby, Gatsby in the first few chapters lied about his past constantly to avoid public attention when in truth he was an actual bootlegger, he had an vast mansion in West Egg and threw enormous house parties every weekend for he hoped to draw in the love of his life who went by the name Daisy. But the reason why he is the main key to the element is because during the novel Gatsby would spend many nights on his dock looking across the bay to Daisy’s mansion in East Egg, mesmerized by the green light at the end of her dock as if it was a sign, Gatsby was a remarkable man in the aspect that he always kept an high spirit and when he set his mind to something he would do anything in his power to accomplish that, which in fact was to win Daisy