"I raised him up out of nothing, right out of the gutter."(Wolfshiem,179)
I think the American dream means to kind of go and get what you want out of life and make lots of money while doing so. Like living a certain lifestyle and then taking a complete turn and moving on from that to make something out of yourself.
I believe that when you want something so bad that you should go out and get it and i think thats why most end in tragedy because people are so consumed in their thoughts about what they're working for that they start to not care about other things in life, these things that got people out of the gutter eventually come back to send them right back.
