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.

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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Wilson: Wilson's pursue for his dream

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. 

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).

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”. 

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.

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.

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.

Wolfshiem-

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. 

Myrtle

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).

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.

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).

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.  

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.