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Gatsby: Gatsby's pursue for his dream cost him his rationality.  Jay Gatsby, in pursuit for his dream, Daisy Butchanan, opened lavish parties everyday to get her attention and even went as far as to take blame for the death of Myrtle for her, which resulted in his own death. Jay Gatsby definitely, "paid a high price for living too long with a single dream"(Fitzgerald 179). Gatsby is much like the CEOs in Inside Job, in a way they were blind to their dreams. The CEOs despite the numerous warnings, were blind to making more and more personal profits, and their "drive for short-term profits" and blindenss to profit led to the worldwide economic depression and bankcruptcy of major banks.

Wilson: Wilson's pursue for his dream cost him everything. Wilson's goal was straightforward and austere, to improve his economical status and to maintain his relationship with Myrtle. Wilson is a hardworking man who runs a "unprosperous and bare"(Fitzgerald 28) garage in the valley of ashes but is ultimately trapped by his position in life. The despair and emptiness Wilson experiences after his dream is dead represents the low-middle class that is harmed by the moral decadence and carelessness of the upper class. Similarly in Inside Job, thousands of workers and lower-middle class people lost their lifetime savings, jobs and houses in pursuit for the American Dream. It is said that "nearly 83 percent of the subprime loans were to low- and moderate-income borrowers", in which most of them lost their savings and investments.

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1. For Wolfshiem, the cost of pursing his dream would be getting caught doing illegal acts. We don’t hear much about him in the book, but we do know that he is one of Gatsby’s business partners, and is linked to illegal crime, so to keep up with these shady acts, he has to sneak around and disobey the law.

2. Meyer Wolfshiem

3. Wolfshiem helped build Gatsby’s fortune in ways that are certainly questionable. Nobody knows where all of Gatsby’s wealth came from, but Wolfshiem was definitely a part of it. “Who is he anyway..? Meyer Wolshiem? He’s a gambler. He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919” (Fitzgerald 73). Just like Fitzgerald shows Woflshiem to be shady, I believe a lot of the bankers in Inside Job were shady too. They made deals that the public had no idea about and were recklessly spending money that was not their own. From an article on Business Insider, you can assume that the dreams of extremely rich people are “[of] power, not money”. Wolfshiem wanted to be rich and powerful which is why he had no problem doing whatever he could to become that.

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Jordan Baker was the slightly sketchy character of Great Gatsby- she was there and never the one causing the conflict, but we were never entirely sure of why she was even there and what her motives were. However, knowing her sly, mendacious nature in her own career, golf, it can be assessed that Baker's dream was to win things without a cost attached to them, without appearing too much in the limelight or glare of people. She wanted things with ease and she wanted them to come to her, without having her to chase them. She was always in the company of popular, ravishing, wealthy Daisy Buchanan

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Tom Buchanan's dream wasn't a gold spooled fancy that orbited far from him in obsessive distance like Gatsby's, but rather, his dream was right in front of him, making its costs spurn his everyday life. Tom's dream was to simply keep things stable and pleasing to him as they had always been; he wanted to always be in control. But in this 'normalcy' that he wished for he wanted to accommodate his own fantastical secret- his liaison hidden away in the city, with its mistress waiting and one day, because of the secret that they held, Myrtle faced despair and finally ran out of the room her suspecting husband had locked her in and was killed. The cost of his dream finally became his very dream, and he even lost the control he had over his wife, who pawed at her own extramarital affair. His taut life is suddenly ripped, and his dream spilled open, "What kind of row are you trying to cause in my house anyway?" Everything he thought he kept he now had to try and obtain back. Tom's dream was about control, not money, which he already had enough of, and in the end, despite its costs, he still succeeded. As the Business Insider said, "They want power, not money. That makes them hard to stop." In Inside Job, we can also note the power-obsessive bank executives and mega-corporation moguls who, above anything, are terrified that they will lose control of the monopoly and power they have. But unfortunately, the blind control they have makes them lose their sight and their companies crash in the market, costing them their dreams. In the end, Tom is no longer the one who has command over his territory- in fact, he finally has to escape it in his own fear instead.

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One must not look far as to Wilson’s american dream, a person whose ultimate goal was to live a simple and honest life. Wilson like many others in the Valley of ashes often dreamed of breaking free of the "Desolate land" (pgs. 28 & 26). When myrtle died, Wilson lost purpose and his ultimate dream.This idea of loss can easily be seen in "Inside Job”, in Iceland many individuals lost their savings and homes when the crisis hit. The whole "dream" of the American economy is wealth, and with the failure of the economy and companies, a loss of a once stable mind is evident.  This is why he committed suicide after he lost his dream, his wife. The death of myrtle was caused by “careless people [individuals who] smash up things and creatures and then retreat back into their money or their vast carelessness .” (Fitzgerald,136-145) Daisy along with others in East egg have an advantage among others, resources. In Inside Job. In iceland bank executives were placed in prison for causing a financial crisis in Finland. However is the U.S, bank executives responsible for the crash were not sentenced or punished. People lost their homes and saving due to the careless actions of a few to earn a quick penny. The american dream should function like “the good society” (Santa Clara), "individuals be free to pursue their private satisfactions independently of others". Individual should be able to accomplish their dreams because no one else will ruin it for them. Wilson’s dream essentially costed his life and the life of Gatsby, due to careless people seeking careless things.

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“There is no such thing as a free lunch” ( Anonymous). Through our early years we are hammered with the idea that there is a cost to everything, a sacrifice that must be done for the greater good or to accomplish a goal. In the Great Gatsby we explore the dream of Nick Caraway. An individual who would go as far as leaving his home, friends, and family to become a stock broker and become involved in the “bond business” (Fitzgerald,4 ).The cost of this chase would alter his identity. The result would be failure and a bitter realization of being "unadaptable to Eastern life" (Fitzgerald 177) through a chain of actions that would essentially mold how he perceives human behavior and morality.Every corruption that bestowed upon nick exemplified the disgust that he had against the extremely rich and their lack of morale. Oddly enough, east egg’s "individual freedom, [and] unlimited opportunity to compete for material well-being, and an unprecedented limitation on the arbitrary powers of government to interfere with individual initiative.” (Module) made him [want ] "no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart" (Fitzgerald, 4). Nick moved to New York to find himself, unlike the others who moved here for the busy life, simply “money does not motivate him”(Business Insider), with that apparent it’s unpredictable that Nick is drawn to the conclusion  that by earning wealth, you lose morale, which is exactly what happened in Inside Job. Wealth drove everyone to loose morale, the greater the craving for lust the greater the negative effect. The American dream is deceiving and has a greater impact to those all around it, it leads to a loss of morale and causes a few casualties along the way, a quick example Myrtle, Wilson, and Gatsby. The american dream can become corrupt and when you're surrounded by individuals who will do anything to achieve it the cost is catastrophic and even deadly, just like inside job unless you're at the top. If you only cared to read the last sentence just know that although Nick essentially found his identity it came at a price, his perspective and inner character.

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George Wilson's dream was "American Dream," to be successful and gain wealth to leave the Valley of Ashes. George stands out in the book in such way that he is "unprosperous and bare" (Fitzgerald 25), and he does not attend parties or really associate with the riches. However, in the end, Wilson did not achieve his dream because Myrtle was killed, he lost his moral by killing Gatsby, and no wealth was gained. The bankers, economists, and contractors all similarly lost their morals and humanity by deceiving people to earn as much as money as possible. Similarly, in the "Lord of the Flies," the boys who are stuck in the island slowly start to lose their moral as their goal is, obviously, to survive. They're all similar in that they ditched their humanity and moral to achieve their goals.

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Myrtle had a dream of becoming one of the aristocracy that led life in the Eastern Egg. She had an affair with an influential man from there and flaunted the little money she had. She cut corners to get there, taking false information about the dog without care. In "Inside Job" it talks about companies take the ratings of the loans without caring or looking into their validity. Myrtle ending up giving up her life for the risk she took having an affair with a man from high society, just like those who "relied on the ratings of the credit rating agencies and failed to do adequate due diligence before buying them and did not understand these instruments or the risk involved" (Denning). In the end she "knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust" of the valley of ashes, where it truly belonged (Fitzgerald 137).

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George Wilson was the owner of a garage in the Valley of Ashes and was also married to Myrtle Wilson. He was “a blond, spiritless man”(Fitzgerald 23) who was faintly handsome and pale. Wilson dreamed of finally getting just enough money to move out of the valley of ashes to go somewhere else with his wife. He was always trying to please Myrtle and was “so dumb he doesn’t know he is alive” (Fitzgerald 21) which is the reason why he never notices that she was having an affair with Tom until the end of the book. However, the cost of Wilson’s dream was something I don’t think he ever even had. He lost Myrtle who was the only thing he felt the need to live for. After Myrtle died he lost all faith in himself and sought revenge on Gatsby and with nothing else to live for he killed himself. This is similar to the Documentary, Inside Job, because it described situations in which people thought they had everything under control and when everything was going well things could easily go bad and many people lost great amounts of wealth unexpectedly just like Wilson lost Myrtle.

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Jordan Baker is a cynical lier who cheats, not only at golf tournaments but at life as well.Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men, and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. She was incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body. (3.158). She avoided men and was rich. Similarly, in Inside Jobs the banks would go against the government and cheat the people and lenders so they could gain money. They most likely bribed government officials and they became rich off of it, even giving workers 3 billion dollar bonuses

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George Wilson's dream was to make money and to have a wife who loved him. When he found out that his wife was cheating on him, his life slowly began to deteriorate and he could not accept the fact that that was happening to him. When his wife was murdered, he lost his will to live, and then committed suicide. So, for George Wilson, the cost of pursuing the American Dream was the loss of dignity to live. In the great Gatsby, once his wife dies, George Wilson says "O my ga-od" many times which shows how crushed he was emotionally and mentally once he saw what was done to his wife (Fitzgerald 122). The death of his wife was due to the insensitive nature of the wealthy. Daisy just ran over Myrtle without a second thought because she knew that she would get away with the murder. This shows have the people who do the least wrong, suffer the most due to the mistakes of those who are wealthier than them. This idea is further examined in Inside Job. Icelandic Bankers jailed the bank executives who caused the financial crisis in Finland. In America, they paid out the wealthy bank executives even though they caused the biggest crime in the century. The people who suffered the most were the people who took out the loans in search of their personal American Dream. According to the Santa Clara website, "the good society" is one in which individuals are left free to pursue their private satisfactions independently of others, a pattern of thinking that emphasizes individual achievement and self-fulfillment.” This means that the individual should be able to accomplish their dreams because no one else will ruin it for them, which did not happen to Wilson. Wilson suffered a great loss due to the insensitivity of the wealthy. This means that Wilson's cost of the American Dream was the loss of the will to survive. Sometimes, the people who suffer the most are the ones who didn't do anything wrong.

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Wilson: George Wilson’s American Dream was to keep his wife and earn a living. When he lost his dream, he felt that he lived for nothing, so he committed suicide. So, Wilson’s cost for pursuing the American Dream was the loss of the reason to live. Gatsby Quote: “O my Ga-od! O my Ga-od!” (Fitzgerald 122). Inside Job: The people who wanted the American Dream were the ones who were used and treated as "disposable". They just believed that it was their time to buy a home, but we're actually used and burned in the end. Wilson is the example of this in this boo, he was just trying to earn a living and keep his garage and his wife was treated as disposable and killed by the wealthy who could not care less. Module Quote: "’Individualism’" -- the belief that "the good society" is one in which individuals are left free to pursue their private satisfactions independently of others, a pattern of thinking that emphasizes individual achievement and self-fulfillment” (Claire Andre and Manuel Velasquez, “Creating the Good Society” Markkula Center for Applied Ethics). This also goes on the idea from inside job, because it shows the individual wants of Tom who just wanted to use Myrtle and then dump her, and how that affected Wilson because Myrtle was his wife and his dream he wanted to remain his.

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Myrtle:

What is the cost of pursuing a dream?

Myrtle gave up her dignity in order to gain even the smallest taste of the rich aristocratic life by having an affair with Tom and not ending their relationship when he “broke her nose with his open hand” (Fitzgerald 30). Which the thought of having money or being associated with someone with that amount of money is like an experiment that was explained in the Inside Job documentary which "they have them play a game where the prize is money. And they noticed that when these subjects earn money, the part of the brain that gets stimulated is the same part that cocaine stimulates.” To Myrtle it doesn’t matter the price she has to pay; for her, Tom and his power and his money is her “addiction.” Her blindness only makes the readers “realize the degree to which [their] lives are shaped by institutional forces” (Andre and Velasquez).

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Daisy:

What is the cost of pursuing a dream?
At the end of the novel, The Great Gatsby, Daisy chose power over her happiness and morality. She had the choice to leave Tom for Gatsby but she decided to stay with Tom. Even though she loved Gatsby, who was also rich, Tom had more power and more influence in the country because he was “a national figure in a way” (Fitzgerald 7). Even though she was not going to be happy in her relationship she was selfish and broke Gatsby's heart with no sympathy even after he took the blame for killing a woman. Which is what happened to the american people in 2008 with the men on wall street. Which emphasizes that "when those dreams turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it” (inside job documentary). Daisy, like the government in 2008 they didn’t take responsibility for what they allowed to happen because they “certainly [are not] going to blame themselves” (Bloomberg, Forbes Magazine). Which overall shows that the gaining or staying in power surpasses a persons morals at the expense of others.

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The cost of pursuing a dream for Myrtle was her relationship with her husband and ultimately her life. Myrtle, being from a poor family, always wanted to move up in society, and thought that her best way to do so was having an affair with someone from a much higher class than her. She tries to use Tom, poking and prodding at him until he snaps and breaks “her nose with his open hand” (Fitzgerald, 167). Like the greedy people on Wall Street, Myrtle said “sure. I’d take that bet,” when putting her marriage on the line for money, and ended up paying the price and more, as after an altercation with her husband, she ran out into the street where she was promptly killed by a car speeding by (Inside Job). “Greed. Excessive Greed,” became Myrtle’s dream, and she quickly paid the price (Ashley).

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Nick- Nick moved to the East to try and have a better future for himself. For him the cost of pursuing his dream would be the possibility of failing. When Tom asks questions about Nick’s bond business, he says with a decisive tone that he never heard of the. This angered Nick because he is trying to make business and a name for himself and annoyingly answers Tom’s comment with a “‘You will….You will if you stay in the East.’” (Fitzgerald 13). In inside job, it explained how the majority of people had to work really hard in order to make money or a name for themselves. Nick would be one of these people because he does not inherit his money or have it easily given to him, he wants to earn it on his own. In the Business Insider Magazine, it stats that the people “make money to build better services.” (Dickey). Nick claims that that he is a honest man and he does want wealth, but he also wants to stay humble with his money.

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In the beginning of the book, it's clear Nick was grown up in a household filled with morals and principles. He wanted "to go east and learn the bond business" (Flitzgerald 7) in order to to earn as much money as he can. But as the novel progresses Nick starts to realize how corrupt the wealthy are in New York and as mentioned in Inside Job people are willing to do anything to earn as much money as they can and to be better than everyone. The cost of his dream is realizing that New York was a place that was completely money-minded and it was not the place where he thought the "American Dream" was. He saw this place as where dreams are in "somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night." (Flitzgerald 189) and that they will never be achieved in a place like the West and East eggs. Nick's thoughts relate to the occurrence in Iceland because like Nick Iceland has realized that having wealth is corrupting the country. Iceland decided that injustice should not be ignored so they "jailed its crooked bankers for their direct involvement in the financial crisis of 2008." and they said that "every Icelander will receive a payout for the sale of one of its three largest banks, Íslandsbanki." (Paragraph 1). This would be like Nick realizing the corruptness of New York and leaving West Egg to go back home where he belongs.
Wolfshiem-
Wolfshiem was first introduced in the book as Gatsby's friend and "a gambler....He's the man who fixed the World's Series back in 1919." (Flitzgerald 78) and later it is known that Wolfshiem is Gatsby's partner in doing illegal businesses. By doing illegal crimes he knows that he should stay hidden and secretive. If he is not careful in doing his illegal acts, then cost of pursuing his dream would be getting caught in his acts. Like Gatsby following Wolfshiem in doing illegal acts, in Inside Jobs the bankers were following the CEOs of the banks and doing illegal acts like taking money that was not theirs. Wolfshiem does these criminal activities only to benefit himself because like everyone else he wants to gain much wealth as he can even if it means in resulting other people's losses. Wolfshiem's criminal activities is like where Facebook when "they 'snuck' in the change to the agreement resulting in Facebook being 'outted', rather than Facebook being up front with users about the change." (Ashley para. 2). He would do any "tricks" to cheat people to reach his goals and to earn the wealth in any way possible.

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Daisy had no cost or side effects of pursuing her dream. In the end Daisy got what she truly wanted. All she wanted was to live comfortably. Daisy became a cynical person in her life it is evident with her saying "I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." She believes that all she needs in the world is money so she'd can be comfortable and not have not deal with hardships. Daisy is somewhat like big Wall Street companies she lets other people take the fall for mistakes she made. This quote reminds me of this " banks know that they are too big. They know they will be bailed." Daisy is too high up in aristocracy so she won't get in trouble for killing Myrtle much like banks collapsing then getting bailed out.

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The cost of pursuing a dream, as I said earlier, is defined by the sacrifices one has to make in order to achieve the dreams and hopes. Myrtle's dream was to be a rich and elite like the East-eggers, but her dream never came true. Though she lived in a garage in the Valley of Ashes, she tried to pretend like the elite by being with Tom, living in a gaudy apartment with "tapestried furniture too large for [the living room]," and trying to act superior by "[rejecting] compliments by raising her eyebrows in disdain" (Fitzgerald 55, 56). This shows that Myrtle risked her relationship with Wilson and fool herself with a silly reputation to achieve the dream of being elite. She clearly failed since she died. In the Inside Job, one of the interviewees, Glenn Hubbard, who was Bush's chief economic advisor, was involved in the corrupt banking system the led to the 2008 crisis. His dream was to finance off of the mortgage companies and make personal profits, just like every other corrupt person during that time. He was successful with his dream in the sense that he made money at the end, but he failed in the sense that he denied of any corruption and, therefore, risked tarnishing his reputation. From the article on businessinside.com, it an be inferred that the dreams of extremely rich people are "[of] power, not money" (Dickey). These dreams are pursued by joining politics and the costs are, of course, getting involved in the risky, vicious cycle of Politics.

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Jordan’s ultimate goal was to be a winner, but the cheating methods that she took to achieve her wins ultimately got exposed and she lost her reputation. In the end of the novel Nick tells her that he is "five years too old to lie to [him}self and call it honor”(170). He tells her this because he wants her to know that he doesn’t like liars, nor does he respect what they stand for. In inside job the corporate heads have the rating agencies lie about their products and this eventually costs them the trust they had with the government. In the document about Mark Zuckerberg’s greed and talks about how people violate things with Trust because of too much greed is held within their hearts, like Jordan, thus the cost of pursuing her dream was her reputation.

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Wolfsheim- Wolfsheim is in a risky business that involves crime and illegal business. For him, the cost of pursuing his dream of fortune and riches would be getting caught doing illegal acts. We he meets Nick, he assumes he is a criminal and says “‘I understand you’re looking for a business gonnegtion.’” (Fitzgerald 76). In Inside job, there were a few people who only had the intention of becoming wealthy even at others major losses. Wolfsheim would be one of these people because he involves himself in criminal activity in order to benefit himself. On Forbes website, it states that “Wall Street became creative.” (Forbes). Just like Wall Street, Wolfsheim became creative in order to achieve wealth. His criminal activity is not the ideal way to obtain money, but it was his way of creativity.

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1. For Nick, the cost of pursuing his dream was leaving everything behind that he once knew, (his home, family, friends, etc) and taking on a new life of someone completely different than the person he was back home in the west.

2. Nick Caraway

3. Nick left his home in the west to become a stock broker, because “Everyone [he] knew was in the bond business, so [he] supposed it could support one more man” (Fitzgerald, 3). His new life in New York became one of secrets and sneaking around. He knew things about people and relationships they were having but decided not to tell anyone even though he called himself an honest man. Just like the economists described in Inside Job, I believe Nick had multiple conflicts of interest and was getting caught up in the drama and corruption of living on Long Island. Even though the people in the East and West Egg were known for their wealth, Nick somehow did not get caught up in this. Just like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs in an article from Business Insider, “money does not motivate him”.

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Daisy

The cost of pursuing a dream for Daisy is the wanton destruction of those around her. Daisy ultimately just wants to live a comfortable, carefree life, and she does whatever she can in order to keep that dream alive. Near the end of the story, Daisy “wavered tragically for a moment and then disappeared around the next bend,” after she hit and killed Myrtle with Gatsby’s car, showing that she does not care about what she did and just wants to get back to that comfortable, carefree life (Fitzgerald, 147). For Daisy, the answer to the question “when is enough enough?,” is never if something stands in the way of her dream (Blumenfeld). Her dreams “turn out to be nightmares” for those around her (Inside Job).

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Nick's dream was to figure out where he belonged. He heads wanting to go into stocks. He moves near the high class people, but not the "high high" class but the new money. His cost was realizing the true nature of wealthy people and not enjoying them and because of not finding his own place.

Gatsby Quote:"When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart" (Fitzgerald, 4).

Inside Job Quote: Every corruption that occurred exemplified the disgust that Nick had against the extremely rich, because the richer and more powerful the top bankers were,    the more they did evil to get even more.

Module Quote: "It promised an unheard of degree of individual freedom, an unlimited opportunity to compete for material well-being, and an unprecedented limitation on the arbitrary powers of government to interfere with individual initiative." This quote shows the attitude of individualism that many Americans had, like Nick who just wanted to figure out where he belonged and what type of people he wanted to be around. His cost though was that because he was so individual and not loyal to one single party, he never found a true “side” where he belonged.

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The cost for pursuing a dream for Jordan is cheating life to make her life better, whcih caused her to loose everything. We can see this to be especially teu when Nick decided to end his relationship between Daisy , “When I had finished she told me without comment that she was engaged to another man”... “You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn’t I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride.” (fitzgerald 204). From this quote we can see that by trying to make her life better, she ended up loosing everything. Similarily to Jordan cheating life, we can see that in "inside job" p, the investment bankers cheated the American financial system by creating derivatives, which were unregulated. From a non fiction source about the aftermath of the cirsis in Iceland, we can see that, "First, Iceland jailed its crooked bankers for their direct involvement in the financial crisis of 2008." (Antimedia paragraph 1). From this quote we can see that the bankers of Icelander lost everything, after cheating the system

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Wilsons dream was to have a steady wife, and a successful company, and the cost of his dream was his ultimately his wife and his own life. Wilsons business was never very successful and he would often "need money pretty bad" (Fitzgerald 131). Wilson's company seemed to be struggling financially throughout the whole book and as a result Myrtle became more and more eager to leave wilson. Wilsons situation is similar to the men mentioned in the documentary, The American Dream, who tried to become successful however they failed and ended up in a lot of trouble and with no money. Wilsons whole like was centered around two things: his wife, and his job and when both of those things were gone, he did not find a reason for living anymore which put an end to Wilson's dream. In the world today, wall street is always having financial problems and "are laying the groundwork for yet another, even bigger financial crisis" (Denning). This quote relates to Wilson because even in the beginning of the book, Wilson was struggling with business and setting himself for up for failure. What he lost as a result of his dream was everything including his company, his wife, and even his own company.

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For Wilson, the price for pursuing His dream was the love of his wife. Because he was so busy working I'm his garage, he would never have enough time for hide wife and the time that he had he would seem like "a spiritless man" (Fitzgerald 25). Myrtle ended up cheating on him with Tom. This related to how many people

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Jordan's dream was to be a winner at anything she tried. She wanted to attain a high status and be regard well, but the methods that she took to achive this cost her her reputation.

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Daisy had a dream of being comfortable and rich. That dream was threatened when she received the letter from Gatsby on her wedding but she gave up her feelings for her dream. Soon "the pearls were around her neck and the incident was over" (Fitzgerald 76). In "Too Big to Fail" the man at the end says that they just did it for the money. People like Daisy throw away their humanity for superficial, fleeting pleasures. In "Inside Job" those millionaires threw away their morals and cares for the common good for greed. They actions resulted in the death of an economy and eventually Daisy's led to the death of a man.

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The cost of Wilson's dream ultimately resulted in Gatsby death along with his own. Wilson wanted to live a simple and honest life. Described as "spiritless", Wilson often found his dream in his wife and getting out of the "Desolate land" (pgs. 28 & 26). This is why he committed suicide after he lost the dream of his life, his wife. This idea of loss can be observed in "Inside Job" as well. The whole "dream" of the American economy is wealth, and with the failure of the economy and companies, the loss of proper mind was evident. This is clear to see when the Global Financial System "became paralyzed" once banks were going bankrupt and being bought out. Lastly, this whole idea of loss can be seen in Andre's article over a society that is solely "abiding allegiance to indivualism" (Andre). This whole idea of indivualism and bettering your self and what's important to you can not really assist you in the long run. With a loss of dream, comes a loss of purpose, and that is what happened to Wilson and many others.

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The cost of pursuing a dream for Gatsby was his wealth and his life. His one and only dream was Daisy. Everything he owned was solely for Daisy. He wanted to impress Daisy, and "'Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay'" (Fitzgerald 78). It also costed his moral as he gained his wealth from being a bootlegger and at the end, he covered up for Daisy who committed basically a murder. In "Inside Job," many bankers threw away their morals by lying to their customers to gain money. In the book "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin, the main character Edna ends up killing herself because the man she had an affair with left her forever.

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The cost of Myrtle's dream is unfortunately her life. Myrtle's entire life she has been tricked and lied to. All Myrtle wanted to do was live a wealthy life. She pursued her dream even when she was chained down by George in a marriage she was tricked into.  In this way to pursue her dream she tried to use Tom as a well of acquiring wealth even if Daisy is in the way. "Daisy! Daisy! Daisy! shouted Mrs. Wilson. I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand." This situation also reminds of something said in the Inside Job. "You're gonna make an extra $2 million a year, or $10 million a year for putting your financial institution at risk. Someone else pays the bill, you don't. Would you make that bet? Most people on Wall Street said, 'Sure, I'd make that bet." Much like Myrtle people on Wall Street would take a bet on others lives to make some wealth.

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For Nick, the cost of pursuing the American dream was the loss of a moral rationale. In the beginning of the book, Nick returns from West Egg and "felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart (Fitzgerald 4)." By saying this, he shows that while he lived near the wealthy, he lost some of his moral values and he realized that the people who were rich did not have moral values because they could get away with doing anything. In Inside Job, it showed how the Icelandic bankers were put into jail after committing fraud. In America, these people were paid even more. This shows Nick’s outlook about wealth and the pursuit of the American Dream. Nick believes that by earning wealth, you lose morale, which is exactly what happened in Inside Job. According to the module by Santa Clara University, the American banking system "promised an unheard of degree of individual freedom, an unlimited opportunity to compete for material well-being, and an unprecedented limitation on the arbitrary powers of government to interfere with individual initiative." This quote shows by having unlimited wealth and power, people can get away with any crime. This is because no one is going to interfere with them. So, Nick believes that the cost of the American Dream is a loss in morale.

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Jordan- The cost of pursuing a dream for her isn't very much, she just wants a normal life where she doesn't have to cheat and wants to be happy in life. "Nevertheless you did throw me over,"  (9.129). From inside job, she relates to the workers that want a better life, but won't do everything they can to help the company or try and put in effort, they just want to take the short cut and cheat. From the Non Fiction piece, The Most Successful Founders Are Greedy, she relates to this piece because of how she was very greedy to win, but she cheatsd her way through to a good life.

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Nick: Pursuing a dream for Nick is a very costly one. Nick wishes to become a successful bonds man and create a lot of wealth for him. Nick starts with the intent of following his dreams until he sees how morally corrupt the wealthy are and the madness that comes with money. "I told that boy about the ice." Myrtle raised her eyebrows in despair at the shiftlessness of the lower orders. "These people! You have to keep after them all the time." (70) The way Myrtle shows her respect for other human beings who have less money than her show how her morals are decaying by staying with Tom and how she as a person is losing what Nick would consider a high moral standard. This is when Nick begins to realize that becoming rich allows for looser senses of morality and this eventually makes Nick give up on pursuing his dream. This also, is in how people who are not in Wall Street and not making the money that some stock brokers were could look at becoming rich and give up on that dream because of the moral standards that are not relevant there. "It was amazing how these people could do this amount of cocaine and continue to work" (Inside Job) Nick's view on the wealthy and their low moral standards is shown also in the Forbes article called Lest We Forget: Why We Had A Financial Crisis: the article states that the because of the low moral standards of the rich "it is clear to anyone who has studied the financial crisis of 2008 that the private sector's drive for short term profit was behind it" (1 Smith)

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Tom Buchanan's dream wasn't a gold spooled fancy that orbited far from him in obsessive distance like Gatsby's, but rather, his dream was right in front of him, making its costs spurn his everyday life. Tom's dream was to simply keep things stable and pleasing to him as they had always been; he wanted to always be in control. But in this 'normalcy' that he wished for he wanted to accommodate his own fantastical secret- his liaison hidden away in the city, with its mistress waiting and one day, because of the secret that they held, Myrtle faced despair and finally ran out of the room her suspecting husband had locked her in and was killed. The cost of his dream finally became his very dream, and he even lost the control he had over his wife, who pawed at her own extramarital affair. His taut life is suddenly ripped, and his dream spilled open, "What kind of row are you trying to cause in my house anyway?" Everything he thought he kept he now had to try and obtain back.

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The Cost for Gatsby.

Gatsby experienced a huge cost in pursuing his dream of Daisy. Whether it be his state of always wanting to prove himself or even his death. For example, he constantly wanted to prove himself worthy of Daisy and even bought his house so that "Daisy would be right across the bay" (pg. 63). This led to his ultimate demise of death. Furthermore, in the "Inside Job" bankers often pursued their love as well. However, this love was for money and more money. This greed and desire for something ended up costing some people, while others got away with it. However, Lehman Brothers, for example, went into bankruptcy for pursing their dream of money and success. Moreover, in the Huffington Post Article over Economic Inequailty, there are views that there are no "disparities more extreme than in the United States." (Blumenfeld). These disparities are caused people spending too much or being above all else. These all point to show that simply using money to get what you want,will not work out in the end.

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(Daisy) The cost of pursuing a dream is loosing other valuable things on the way. Daisy's dream was to be comfortable and live an easy, free life with money. She didn't want to get into trouble and therefore, let other people fix the problems that were caused for her. She "smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into [her] money"(Fitzgerald 306). For Daisy to achieve of dream, she had to sacrifice her relationship with Gatsby. As the production possibilities curve shows it, the opportunity cost shows the amount you will lose in order to gain something else. This opportunity cost was used by the Investment bankers to risk on mortgages for personal profits. Their dream was to become rich, and they achieved it by cheating off of people buying homes. The article about Facebook's greed also shows the cost of pursuing a dream. Facebook's "greed" was to be pursued by costing it the "trust" of its users (Ashley).

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Tom- Tom wanted to always come out on top and he would do what ever it takes to acheive it. He would risk his wealth his family and his social status to come out ahead of everyone. He would loose many people by trying to acheive his dream."Self-control!" repeated Tom incredulously. "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out […] Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white."

Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization. (7.222-230)

In Inside Jobs the banks many banks in America would make huge risks in sending out loans and that would lead to the crash. Banks would send out more money than they had and eventually they lost all their money except the money they had for themselves already. Every bank wanted to come out on top of the world as the most wealthy and have the most people using their bank, but the constant over spending would lead to their collapse. No one stood in their way. When the government would start to get involved they wound up not doing anything to fix the problem.

In "To Big to Fail" they explained the crash of Wall Street. "Wall Street ... started pushing the lenders for more loans..." By pushing the lenders they would want to come out on top and even with the crash of Wall Street they came out a rich.

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For Gatsby, the cost for pursuing His dream was not only a lot of his wealth but his life as well. Be spent all his money hosting extravagant parties in hopes that "Daisy comes over" (Fitzgerald 121) and ended up giving his life by taking the blame for running over Myrtle. Much like all the ceos in "An Inside Job", Gatsby had a love for something that soon became an obsession. Both the ceos And Gatsby would throw money and their time into something detrimental to their future. For the ceos it was simply more money and led to the demise of their companies. For Gatsby it was the idea of being with Daisy and it led to his death. Using money excessively to get what you want not only was detrimental to them but also detrimental to the world around them. It is Becasue of people like Gatsby and the ceos that "the disparity between classes is no greater than in America" (Blumenfeld)

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Nick's road to pursuing the dream was an eyeopener to the reality of those who are wealthy. Nick was unlike the others who live in East or West egg. He was quiet, tolerant, and humble. Right before Gatsby dies, Nick says,"They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." (Fitzgerald 44-45) to describe those who live in west egg.

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Nick: Nicks dream was to move to the east and become a successful bond man. His dream ended up being unsuccessful in his dream and he moved back to the south. The cost of pursuing nicks dream was failing and realizing he was "unadaptable to Eastern life" (Fitzgerald 177). Gatsby worked hard to become successful in the east however he realized that he did not fit in with the other people in New York so he accepted his failure and moved back west, realizing who he truly was. In inside job, many people have the dream of becoming successful on wall street however, once they get there they realize that it is not for them and they don't belong there. This is similar to The Great Gatsby because Nick moved to the east to try to find money however his plan failed because he didn't fit in with the people and wanted to eave. He decided the bond work and "the system was unsustainable" (Denning). Nick had a lot to loose by moving to the west and when he realised that the work he was doing was something he was not interested in, he left.

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The cost of pursuing a dream for Daisy didn't end up affecting Daisy very much as she ended up being with a man who had money, which was the only tng she wanted in life. Her dream was to live a stress less life of wealth with no worries and in the end, she ended up with Tom in the end, a man who could provide her with all the money she ever needed. Her perfect image of a woman was achieved when she mentioned that "The best thing that a woman can be in the world is a beautiful little fool", which she was despite her manipulation of Gatsby. She also never truly suffered from making Gatsby take the blame for the Myrtle murder similar to how in the Inside Job the wealthy entrepreneurs make other people pay for their own risks, I.E "Frank Partnoy: You're gonna make an extra $2 million a year, or $10 million a year for putting your financial institution at risk. Someone else pays the bill, you don't. Would you make that bet? Most people on Wall Street said, 'Sure, I'd make that bet.'"

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Gatsby's dream was Daisy. His life revolved around trying to get Daisy back and he wanter her to tell Tom that she never loved him and come back to Gatsby. He was willing to pretty much do anything to impress her. Gatsby even held large parties and "began asking people casually if they knew her"(Fitzgerald 79). He also worked very hard to become rich and buy a large house and nice things to impress Daisy because that is what she was interested in. However, even with all of Gatsby's hard work and persistence he still didn't end up accomplishing his dream. This is similar to the Inside Job video that we watched in that "some people work hard for years and sometimes don't even end up with anything",(Inside Job notes) and although Gatsby was successful in earning money and becoming rich, he still did not get what he was working for. When things started to go bad and he started losing hope that his dream was possible he "felt that he had lost the old warm world"(Fitzgerald 161). Not only did Gatsby lose his hope and happiness, he also lost his life. Gatsby spent so much time worrying about one thing that his life revolved around and he died trying to love someone he couldn't.

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Tom's dream from my perspective was control over his life and his relationships, and the cost of this was losing control at one point and having a large backlash in his lifestyle(moving back to the midwest). In the book he is rich man who lives in the East egg with his wife Daisy, while he has an affair with a girl named Myrtle. Even though in the end he was able to keep control of Daisy, the thought of him coming as close as he did to losing control of her again caused Tom to change. Tom at one point while talking to Daisy says that he has "Self-control" because he won't let "Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to [his} wife"(130). Although he makes this statement, the cost of pursuing this ultimate control has him lose Myrtle, his friends in New York, and his place in East egg because he ends up leaving in the end of the novel. In inside Job this can be seen with the group of CEOs trying to control the whole market and anything that would interfere with their plans, but in the end they lost what they had control of. In "Creating the Good Society" by Claire Andre and Manuel Velasquez, they talk about how once we are faced with large problems and disasters they "retreat into our private worlds", and this is what Tom did as a consequence of losing his control over his situation.

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Tom- The cost of pursuing a dream for Tom is very costly, but not very hard for him. He wants to be very successful and win at everything, that is his dream. That is his dream and it comes easy because he has a very large amount of money. It is costly for him because he looses many people and things in the process of his dream. "And what's more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time." (7.251-252) From Inside Job, he relates to many of the big Ceo's because he wants to win at everything, but he lost a lot in the making. From the Non Fiction piece, Red Ice Creations, Tom relates to the Bankers that lost everything, because he wants everything and wants to win but someday he will fall through and loose.

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the cost for pursuing a dream for Tom Buchanan was to end up being successful at the end but ended up in him loosing everything precious to him. This occured many times in the book, such as loosing best friends, and almost loosing his wife, but the most significant was when Tom saw “Myrtle Wilson’s body, wrapped in a blanket..." (Fitzgerald 160). From this quote we can see how devestated Tom became after seein the death of his mistresses, because of his actions.From Inside Job we can see that just like Tom who has lost everything, normal homeowners has also lost everything due to the actions of these powerful firms. From a non fiction source called " Creating a Good Society" we can see that Tom is about to face a lot of hardship just like the people who have suffered in , "homelessness, rising unemployment, crumbling highways, and impending ecological disaster" (andre paragraph 2) . From this quote we can see that just like Tom, the homelanders have lost everything due to the actions of investors.