Mobs. The mafia. Gang. Organized crime has been a part of American history for a long time. The height of their glory period in the United States occurred in a specific time period: the 1920s. They are present in the novels of the time, in reminiscences, and have exercised a strange attraction on the American people ever since. People are fascinated by the inner workings of organizations and the lives of those within them. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby's affiliation with organized crime prevents him from realizing his greatest dream of living in East Egg and taints him in the eyes of Daisy Buchanan, forever preventing them from having a relation. The title “organized crime” is such for a reason as it is highly organized and efficient. The US FBI website section on organized crime explains the legal definition of organized crime: "The FBI defines organized crime as any group that has some sort of formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal" ("Organized crime"). It goes on to state that these organizations usually operate more than one illegal business. They are widespread and have “large support networks”, which means they are connected to numerous other criminal groups, cities, political offices or civil services (such as the police or courts). Organized crime is incredibly complex and far-reaching in society. A structure was mentioned in the FBI's definition of organized crime. Here it refers to a hierarchy within the group. At the top is the mafia boss. This is the man (or woman) who makes the decisions and decides the direction his organization will take. They are responsible for all major executive decisions. The leading man is one step down... center of the paper... Buchanan is Mr. Gatsby's love interest. He has old money and old respectability. Never, not in her wildest dreams, would she have given up her comfortable life to marry a man like Gatsby. Gatsby and Daisy come from different worlds, he from crime and she from respectability. He would do anything to keep it that way. Works Cited Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, NY: Scribner, 1996. Print.Gross, Dalton and Mary Jean Gross. "Why Be Honest? The Scandals of the 1920s." Understanding the Great Gatsby: A casebook for students with historical problems, sources, and documents. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. 35-42. Press."Organized crime." FBI. FBI, Aug. 26, 2010. Web. Feb. 26, 2014. Rzepka, Charles J., and Lee Horsley. “Gangs and Mafias: Original Gangsters: Lippard and Fitzgerald.” A companion to detective fiction. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 210-12. Press.