This new shock of wealth created a moral confusion, portrayed in the greedy social climbers who attend Gatsby’s parties and, incidentally, most everyone of some type of wealth during this time period. Additionally, the skewed view of the American dream can be paralleled with Gatsby’s infatuation with attaining the ultimately unattainable, Daisy Buchanan. This obsession of Gatsby’s, which remains the sole purpose of his maintaining of these parties in hopes that Daisy would eventually make an appearance, proves to eventually lead to his demise and the fall of this so called “American dream”. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s view of the American Dream as portrayed in The Great Gatsby is cynical, as shown in his exemplification of old wealth and new wealth and the moral corruptness that follows it, as well as Gatsby’s inability to see the truth for what it really is; all the money in the world could not buy Daisy Buchanan’s love