An accurate description of the American Dream and a glimpse into the lives of the very rich.

Everyone takes this way too seriously and talks about how this is how people must really be unconsciously, but no one talks about how this was a rebellious text written by a man who rightfully hates everything about Western civilization and Christianity. There was nothing unconscious here, he very much intended to infuriate the average reader of his time. Reading it today, it's a very funny book.