THE GREAT GATSBY
            
            
             The American Dream is in my opinion the ideals set by families
            
             in America to achieve goals that are generally unrealistic to achieve. An
            
             example would be the picture of a wealthy middle class family with two
            
             children, one boy and one girl, with a dog and a cat all in a nice house with
            
             two loving parents and they all get along with no problems whatsoever. The
            
             American Dream can also be interpreted as making a lot of money very
            
             easily and other things of that sort. There is a problem with the American
            
             Dream though, it is the fact, as I stated in the above lines that it is unrealistic
            
             and not fully achievable, no one can have the perfect life because everone
            
             has a problem somewhere with someone or something. Also if you have
            
             by some miracle achieved the American dream, you will be all alone in the
            
             world.
            
             The nineteen twenties was an interesting decade. I suppose the
            
             twenties were called the Gay Twenties due to the fact that people were very
            
             happy back then. There were a lot of enjoyable things, such as the style of
            
             music and what people did for fun. The novel The Great Gatsby reflects the
            
             nineteen twenties because the storyline took place in the twenties. Also the
            
             attitude that people had back then is displayed in this book. The book
            
             portrays the twenties as a fun time to be living in.
            
             The setting of the novel takes place in two cities called West
            
             Egg and East Egg, which I still do not know the symbolic meaning of them
            
             but in the book the cities were explained that they were actually in the shape
            
             of eggs. They are in New York I think, but if they are not then they are
            
             somewhere very close, because the characters are frequently going to New
            
             York city and variouse places on Long Island. Also, almost a whole chapter
            
             takes place in an apartment in the city.
            
             The book is narrated by a man named Nick who i...