The Great American Novel?

I vote Moby Dick because, even though you can skip the middle third, as has been noted, there's a lot going on in there.  Exploration, obsession, dry zooology, and one of the chapters is written in play format.  Things switch around and the bigness of the narrative is part of it, for me. 

Anyway post your opinions.

The author has to be American, people. There is absolutely no way in hell for a non-American to write a true American novel. Hemingway, Huxley, and Nabokov are far calls from American.

I vote The Great Gatsby as well. Death of a Salesmen would top it if it weren't a play. Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck and Player Piano by Vonnegut are both contenders for the top too.

Salinger is too atypical and Eastern and the Beat bastards are too anti-American.