A common theme that is seen all throughout “The Great Gatsby” is the American Dream. Fitzgerald constantly eludes to this topic and shows how in his time of the roaring twenties, the American Dream is unattainable, for everyone is more focused on becoming rich. Gatsby represents a good example of how people worked for wealth more than making a good life because he saw money as the solution to his problems and tried to reinvent himself so much that he wasn’t the same man anymore. A second theme that Fitzgerald includes in his book is class. He shows us both sides, old money and new money, with the two opposing sides of East Egg and West Egg. He portrays the people on East Egg, the old money, to be very sophisticated and mature; they know how
