Nancy Flores The Effects of Corruption in the American Dream The dictionary defines the word corruption as “an impureness that offers or accepts bribes and bad influence (Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English pg. 193).” Throughout life, people meet various ways of corruption; we can actually see this through the government and its leaders. Corruption is some type of dishonesty and fraud. This type of action affects people in various ways. We see several …showed first 75 words of 697 total…

…showed last 75 words of 697 total…and corrupt people in the world. In The Great Gatsby, we see how there is an “exploration of the American Dream as it exists in a corrupt society.” The American Dream itself is somehow corrupting since it puts pressure on people to do things that can really get out of hand and bring out bad consequences. Corruption affects the lives of people, it affects the people accomplishing their dreams and the way they can live.