Along the history, the Americans have begun to realize the American dream of success, fame and wealth through thrift and hard work, the American Dream can mean different things to certain individuals, To some it can mean being a millionaire to others it can mean to be a successful enough in life to live comfortably and still be surrounded by family, yet freedom somehow overpowers wanting to be wealthy for other people, however, what is the American dream if it means that you might end up alone in the end? money can mean having everything you want in life but money doesn’t last forever like family does.

The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about the American Dream, and the downfall of those who attempt to capture its illusionary goals, this dream has varying the importances for different people but in The Great Gatsby, for Jay, the dream is that through wealth and power, one can acquire happiness. To get this happiness Jay must reach into the past and realize an old dream and in order to do this he must have wealth and power, he devoted most of his adult life trying to recapture it and, finally, dies in its pursuit.

The term was first used by James Truslow Adams in his book The Epic of America which was written in 1931. He states: "The American Dream is "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. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position."

There is no strict definition of the 'American Dream' though early in the twentieth...