According to the dictionary, the definition of dissatisfaction is the quality or state of being unhappy or discontented. Dissatisfaction is a disease that theoretically knows no prejudice, has no cure and almost everyone has it. This is a global epidemic, which can destroy a man in the time it takes to snap his fingers. Physically most people will be fine, but discontent will rot you to the core. Unfortunately, not settling seems to be a very common part of society today and in the past. The theme of not being satisfied with life is particularly present in the famous novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It seems that all the characters in this novel have achieved the American dream, but they are all unhappy and in the end they never get what they really want. Furthermore, no character is satisfied with their marriage, love and life in general. They are all dissatisfied with their own lives and destroy other people's lives to satisfy themselves. The Great Gatsby teaches us that despite being rich and powerful, people can still be dissatisfied and do anything to be happy. Therefore, even though we believe we have it all, dissatisfaction still plagues the human spirit. Dissatisfaction with life is shown in the first two pages of the novel, The Great Gatsby, through the narrator: Nick Carraway. This narrator, just like his last name Carraway, has no worries in the world and essentially throws away all responsibility when he returns from the war and moves to New York. Author Fitzgerald purposely chose the narrator's name to give the reader an idea of ​​the character before the audience even gets to know him. After World War I, many veterans returned wanting to do more. They didn't want to... middle of paper... they changed his clothes, his appearance, his accent and his mannerisms, but that didn't change his heart. In his heart he is still this poor boy in love with the beautiful, pure Southern belle, Daisy. When Gatz becomes Gatsby it is the beginning of his American dream. Nick eloquently states the beginning of Gatsby's American dream by saying, "James Gatz - that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific time that saw the beginning of his career .”(Fitzgerald 98).James Gatz's dissatisfaction with his entire being leads him to strive for something more and to work hard and become Gatsby be happy like Gatsby. Apparently he isn't in the end.