What do you think Fitzgerald is saying about the American dream in the 1920s?

At one point in America's past, the American Dream consisted of noble goals: life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. However, as the plot of picks up
around 1922, just four years after the end of World War I, the nation is in the midst of
economic prosperity that they have not seen before. The stock market provided an opportunity for
wealth to almost anyone who invested wisely (and had a bit of luck), and when Prohibition began
in 1920 via the 18th Amendment, a new subculture arose for the manufacture and distribution of
illegal alcohol. Thus, people could also acquire...