How does Gatsby represent the American dream? What does the novel have to say about the condition of the American dream of the 1920's?

You are addressing aof
the book - that the
American Dream can become corrupted.  The American Dream was, and still is,

that anyone, no matter how humble the birth, can rise up to become whatever he or she
desires if
he or she is willing to work hard. despised his humble birth and
background.  He knew at a very
young age that he wanted more out of life than
what his parents had (see ) and some proof of
that is in what Gatsby wrote in
the book his father brought with him to Jay's after Jay died. 
He knew he
wanted wealth from an early age, but when he metin 1917,...