A descendent of immigrants himself, current Los Angeles Mayor Villaigarosa, once deliberated about the idea of coming to America. He said, “we come to work, we come for a better life.. [and] to participate in the American dream”. According to the Miriam-Webster dictionary, this dream, which is dreamt by immigrants arriving to the United States everyday, is “an American social ideal that stresses egalitarianism and material prosperity”. Though with persistence and a touch of luck one can achieve material prosperity, through F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby and its critique of society, the reader is dumbfounded to realize that maybe this dream is not as achievable and as grand as they once thought it to be. That despite what they have been told, they will never amount to as much or be considered as one of the social elite and are confined to the class of which they are born. Ultimately though The Great Gatsby, is a novel about the distorted fairy-tale-like perception of the American Dream by the large majority –those who strive to achieve the unachievable- and the ugly truth behind the glittering façade of the social elite. Through the eyes of key characters such as: Tom Buchanan, Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, and George Wilson, who each portray a different aspect of the American society of the time, Fitzgerald exposes, and forces the reader to acknowledge the flaws and imperfections of such a delusional dream.