What is Nick Carraway's American Dream in The Great Gatsby and does he fail/achieve his dream? Please refer directly to at least 5 quotes in the book...

struggles with his fluctuating lack of commitment to the American dream. As a veteran of World
War I, Nick has spent time in war-torn Europe and, upon returning home, attempts to try a
slightly different path than that which his family laid out for him. He has come to New York to
work on Wall Street but is uncertain that is the right place for him. In addition, he left the
Midwest in part to escape an attachment to a young woman that everyone believed was turning into
an engagement.

Nick likes to think of himself as a principled man, but he
mocks his own honesty. Throughout the novel, he attends a party withand his mistress, and helps
whom he barely knowsset up a meeting with his (Nick's) cousin , a married woman. Nick makes only
modest efforts to get together with . Ultimately, he is so shaken by the summers events,
culminating in Gatsbys death, that he leaves the stock exchange and returns home to retreat from
social involvement.

Relevant quotes appear in the chapters mentioned with
each one.

In , by quoting his father, Nick emphasizes his solid, well-to-do
background.

Remember that all the people in this world
havent had the advantages that youve had.

Nick explains
his job choice and his familys eventual support:

Everybody
I knew was in the bond business€¦All my aunts and uncles talked it over€¦and finally said,
"Whyye-es with very grave, hesitant faces.

In , Nick
describes his mixed feelings about attending the party with Tom, Myrtle, and others:

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by
the inexhaustible variety of life.

In , as Nick
contemplates his ambiguous feelings toward Jordan, he realizes he is in over his head with his
involvement in the crowd surrounding Gatsby. He cannot stop thinking one phrase:

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the
tired.

In the novels beginning, in chapter 1, Nick
reflects on what he learned from the experiences in the Eggs:

what preyed on Gatsby€¦temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and
short-winded elations of men.