In Gatsby=s dream there were two goals he was reaching for: Wealth, comfort, and security; the other was lost love, Daisy. At the start of the book Gatsby had already accomplished one of these. He was a wealthy man living in a luxurious mansion and basically no troubles. Later in the story we learn how it is that he got to the level he is at. As a child Gatsby spent his time working for his dreams. His father comments, AHe

Whether Fitzgerald intended to depict AThe American Dream@ or the corruption of the dream, there is no doubt that the characters were working for or already had the fulfillment of a dream.

On the flip side, The Great Gatsby can also represent the corruption of AThe American Dream@. In a sense Fitzgerald portrayed America as having Alost its standards and its sense of the moral fitness of things@ (Taylor 156). The story is told about AThe American Dream@ at a corrupt time in America. Tom and Daisy=s world was the vessel of corruption in the story. They based their dream on illusions without looking at the reality of the situation(Bewley 235). They were living in a world made of money and failed to see the crumbling of their world around them.

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