Gatsby's capacity for fantasy only left him in a nightmare filled with scandal and murder. Like Cedric Jennings, and O.J. Simpson, Jay Gatsby lived on the border between innocence and immaturity, dream and reality. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby , Gatsby reinvents himself. He changes his name, and seemingly changes his past. On some levels, most Americans have attempted, at some time or another to change themselves, whether changing their name, hair, or aspects of their personality.
Many American today have the same mentality that everything can be bought.
It is hard to say what the American Dream is. Everyone has his or her own perspective of the American Dream, and everyone has the right to accept it or not. However, it is nearly undisputable that people of America are being pulled by some unattainable dream.