The American Dream is a farce. Hopeful American children and quixotic foreigners believe that freedom will lead to prosperity and that prosperity will bring happiness. This anticipation of joy will never be realized, and all these unfortunate people will feel that they have been robbed of their happiness by some unfortunate roll of the dice, but in reality they are chasing cars, because the American dream is not something that can truly be captured. , but only smoke trapped in the palm of a hand. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby's lavish parties, featuring music, dancing, and illegal alcohol, are a representation of the corruption of society's values ​​and are filled with guests concerned only with material things as they drift further and further away from morality. values ​​that once dictated the lives of those who came before them. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Gatsby's parties to illustrate the "Roaring" Twenties as a time of gluttonous people who abandoned moral values ​​like wrecked ships in a storm of banal desires as they chase the happiness promised by the American Dream . At the many parties that Gatsby throws, what is immediately apparent is the beauty and splendor of the party, but many of the guests are only there in an attempt to establish business relationships to get ahead in the economic world. At one of Gatsby's parties attended by Nick, the narrator, he is “struck by the number of young Englishmen scattered here and there; all well dressed, all looking a little hungry, and all talking in low, serious voices to rich Americans” (Fitzgerald 42). When Nick sees all these foreign men he is “sure they were selling something: bonds, insurance or cars. They were at least painfully aware of the easy money in the middle of the card. The 1920s looked to the “nouveau riche,” like Gatsby, and believed that they themselves could walk alongside this self. -upper class created without the hard work that was once believed to be the only factor in success and happiness. People like Gatsby created an illusion for the rest of the country that distorted the idea of ​​the American dream and broke down the protective walls that moral values ​​erected around young, hopeful Americans. In The Great Gatsby, the 1920s are depicted as a time of rebellion against moral values, and Fitzgerald uses Gatsby's parties as a tool to demonstrate this loss of moral values ​​in post-war America. The “Roaring” Twenties were a time of great social decadence, and Gatsby's parties are a symbol of the moral degradation that occurred everywhere in the Twenties, from the Valley of Ashes to the pharmacies, where today you can buy anything..