“So we row on, boats against the current, carried back ceaselessly into the past.” (Fitzgerald 180). The Great Gatsby, considered one of the great novels of the 1920s, follows the story of a man named James Gatz, who tries to relive the past, or his alias Jay Gatsby. The story is told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, a young bond salesman trying to make it in the East. Nick moves into Gatsby's house nearby. Nick meets Gatsby at one of his parties and they become friends quite quickly. Gatsby in love with Nick's cousin Daisy, who was Gatsby's lover. Gatsby convinces Nick to introduce Daisy to Gatsby. They make an agreement but Daisy's cheating husband, Tom Buchanan, a racist, is jealous and uses a garage owner, George Wilson, to kill Gatsby. Gatsby is dead, George is dead, and Nick is left to his own devices to reflect on Gatsby. Gatsby is a young man who grows up, let's say he chases the American dream, yet the American dream does not exist in The Great Gatsby. There are not enough opportunities for all the characters in the novel. Gatsby is a man who fell in love with her and gained all his wealth for her. Although he earned his high, but superficial status, he did not earn all his money honestly. Tom points out, “Certainly not for a common swindler who would steal the ring he put on her finger.” (Fitzgerald 133). Gatsby is caught red-handed because he did not earn his wealth honestly. At lunch with Nick they meet Wolfsheim, a gambler who fixed the World Series in 1919, a shady man who wears a pair of cufflinks made of human molars but Gatsby is such an honest man and yet he knows this man very well to the point of being friends. Through their friendship you can see that Gatsby has done some dirty work. As Jeffrey Louis Decker points out in the article “Gatsby's Uncontaminated Dream: The Diminution of the Self-Made Man in the Tribal Years of the Twenties” “Gatsby “grew… out of nothing,” he