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Social mobility – it is the primary effect of the American Dream, which itself is an idea that seems simple, but is peculiarly hard to define. At the root of it is the sense of a society’s lust for success obtained by hard work, honesty, and modesty. If in fact this Dream were in the reach of anybody, then society would exist as a community where "all men are created equal" and everyone would have the opportunity of social mobility by doing the best for themselves as they could. But the reality of American society is cruel. A once high, mighty, and pure ideal has become degraded and buried by the inhumane lust for money. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, The Great Gatsby, many of the characters, the significant one being Gatsby, believed in the Dream and that wealth and social mobility was within his or her reach. The social hierarchy of the times plays a very meaningful part in Gatsby’s lust and love-life. Fitzgerald illustrates three specific social classes: old money, new......

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