In earlier times, the “American Dream” was an idea and inspiration to many. To live the American Dream was on the minds of many Americans, nonetheless soon afterward those same dreams were distorted with corruption. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the American Dream is viewed as a corrupted version of what used to be a pure and candid, ideal way to live. The notion that the American Dream was somehow about the wealth and possessions one had embedded, was in the minds of Americans during the 1920’s. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby wants to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, his love that he lost about five years ago. Gatsby’s path leads him from poverty to wealth, and into Daisy’s arms. The Great Gatsby is a definitive piece of American fiction. It is a novel of conquest and calamity. As a consequence of the distortion of the American Dream, the characters of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby along with others, lived life entirely believing in the American Dream, becoming somewhat absorbed in it, leading in disasters. Fitzgerald exemplifies that the American Dream is a myth in the novel dude to the lack of social class mobility, feminist criticism, and the decaying of society. Throughout the novel, social mobility is something that society believes in order to continue to strive the American Dream. Jimmy Gatz, as legally named, search for the American Dream, he severs his relationship with his parents by rejecting his surname and recreating himself as Jay Gatsby, whose imposing resume includes having graduated from the prestigious British university, Oxford. Hence by asserting to have gone to Oxford, Gatsby places himself amongst the privileged and elite of the world, giving himself an aura of the sophisticated and as well as one bright fellow. Gatsby While having a conversation with Tom and Jordan Gatsby asserts “Yes I went thereI told you I went there. It was nineteen