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The 1920s was a period in which the American economy soared leading to financial stability among many Americans who had invested in the stock market. The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, added in 1919, banned the sale and consumption of alcohol. Bootleggers became millionaires by privately selling alcohol and massive amounts of partying added to the decline of the dream that once drove the Americans to succeed in life. Americans believed that anyone could succeed if they had skill and were willing to work hard. However, in the 1920s, because of the people who started gaining massive amounts of money on something that was legally and morally wrong, the American Dream almost disappeared. F. Scott Fitzgerald, an achieved novelist, became angry and wrote The Great Gatsby in order to show American what their nation had come to. Fitzgerald’s attempt to depict the decline of the American Dream, in his novel The Great Gatsby, proved to be thoroughly significant to the commendable writing of the novel. The Great Gatsby’s narrator and only moral character, Nick Carraway, saw the illegitimacy of character in this new provincial society filled with materiali