American Hustle Our elder brothers, Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Jefferson, have advanced the state of this brotherhood. We started out as simple pledges in the ΣΩβ fraternity, but over time we proved our worth and became kappa leaders. Our battle to become a national power representing Greek life has been hard fought, from our battles with our Greek brothers in the south, to our battles with our rivals overseas. Oppression is the hazing process necessary to become an American. American society has deceived you all! They preach words of freedom and opportunity, while you didn't know that the whole system is rigged. The opportunity does not open its doors to the Italian immigrant who wants to establish and carry on his family business in America. Opportunity is a discriminating factor. It chooses those who can advance in the social hierarchy, contrary to the ideals of the American dream, a hope shared by millions of people who wish they could come to America to achieve equality, democracy and material prosperity. In fact, American political and business leaders choose who can become a successful American. They are greedy creatures who desire to continue their success and American identity, known family career, in their bloodlines. Families like the Rockefellers and Carnegies who control industries, force immigrants to conform to America's social inadequacies. They provide their children with the means necessary to succeed, while people who come to America seeking opportunity are relegated to the bottom of the social ladder. People throw away their identity and what little property they had just to come to America and face the same oppression they faced in their homelands. A man can be a doctor... middle of paper... icans. Similar to Belfort, Jay Gatsby financed his luxurious livelihood with means that were not acceptable in society. Gatsby was a bootlegger, a distributor of alcohol during the Prohibition era. It is ironic that a man who has achieved a high status on the social ladder has achieved his goals through illegal activities, and is now admired by other members of the American upper class by whom he is surrounded. "He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That's one of his little stunts. I took him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I thought That wasn't very wrong." (Fitzgerald 72). The role of deception in both "The Great Gatsby" and in obtaining an American identityThe American identity is truly characterized by the survival of the fittest, either you are the oppressor or you are under the oppression.