"THE GREAT GATSBY" ESSAY "The Great Gatsby ", besides being a great literary piece, is a metaphor for a whole society, the American society. As well, as a cliché: "The party was over", which signifies a level of prophetic vision within the American society and its history. An essential part of this American characteristic of the novel, and its historicity, is about the American Dream. The dream At the center of how Gatsby is a metaphor for a whole society, is the relationship between Europe, the already settled, which caused unsatisfaction and thus led to America, in which mercantilism and idealis