The American dream is different for everyone. People will do anything to make their dream come true. Social structures play a role in determining how far you can get in that dream. In the book The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald we meet our main characters Nick, Gatsby and Daisy. Nick and Daisy are cousins ​​and Gatsby is a newly rich man who loves Daisy. Gatsby's American dream was to climb the social ladder and rekindle the love he and Daisy had had for a long time. He couldn't make Daisy happy because his economic class wasn't as high as hers. She would not marry him because he was inferior to her. As Karl Marx said, the rich will do anything for the poor except take off their responsibilities." This ties back to Gatsby and Daisy because Daisy did not help Gatsby move up in social class. She let him come up on his own and he became obsessed with pleasing her. Now that he is rich he wants to see Daisy again. He was not financially stable when he was young. This pushed Gatsby to become obsessed with getting rich and trying once again with Daisy. Social class has a major impact on Gatsby's American dream until it corrupts him and becomes the focus of his dream. Where we find ourselves in the social circle can be great or bad for us. In Gatsby's case, the obsession with being in crowds drove his daily activities. We see in one of his diaries his daily schedule: "No more smoking or chewing, bathing every other day, reading one book or improvement magazine a week..." (181-82). His father found his diary where we see how Gatsby studied and practiced acting like a rich person. Every day his mind was focused on improving himself, which is his dream. Another way he is obsessed is through… middle of paper… er, and money is so powerful that it can control someone. People criticize others who are lower than them but don't realize that they too were once at the bottom. In the Roaring '20s, Fitzgerald shows how the American dream deteriorated. The American Dream was originally about self-improvement, discovery, and the pursuit of happiness. The situation changed for Gatsby, instead he wanted money and to be involved in social circles he did not belong to. Gatsby's dream was ruined by his attempt to belong to a higher social class. One lesson we can learn from Gatsby is to be ourselves. It's okay to try to have more money so we can be financially stable, but we must always maintain our personality. Gatsby's lesson should be to not be someone you are not. Never think that money can buy happiness and friends. None of his "friends" bothered to show up, except Nick. This is a lesson learned.