" [Dan] Cody was fifty years old then, a product of the Nevada silver fields, of the Yukon, of every rush for metal since Seventy-five. The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionare found him physically robust but on the verge of softmindedness, and suspecting this an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money." (Fitzgerald 105)
The American Dream is a term first coined in the 1930s to describe a dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for anyone to attain it. Of course, not everyone believed this to be true. In Fitzgerald's book "The Great Gatsby", living the American Dream meant that in order to rise in social status, it had to be done by any means necessary. However, this is not true for Dan Cody who became extremely wealthy during the Gold Rush, but he was often used by women for his money. On the other hand, we have Jay Gatsby who attained his wealth by bootlegging for selfish reasons. Gatsby had become so absorbed into being more and more wealthy, I believe that he gradually detached himself from the world and the people around it because it trully controlled his world and how he lived.
