The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is the book that paints the picture of the ideal American dream. It shows how wealth and sociability consumes a person and clouds their minds. Nick the main character is living in a different reality than everyone else in east egg. His views on life are questioned when he observes the vanity of the east egg community.

The people wear invisible masks around the community. Wearing these masks cover up their pasts and their desires. This face is a total different person than what everybody knows, and the reason why it is in hiding is because they're afraid that everyone will look at them differently and they would feel like they've lost power. The less people know about you and your past the more power you have over them but once people know about you, they have the power to destroy you. 

It's a mind game that is fueled by greed and as Nick realized this he became more habitude to this way of living that he had to go back home. East egg was a different world, one that may have exposed the truth about what the American dream verily is and why it has to run off of fear and rapaciousness. How does that make you superior to anyone else?

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