Gatsby

Dream. This dream has varying significance for different people, but in The Great Gatsby,

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby’s dream is unfolded. Through improving himself with

the wealth he acquirers, then gaining the popularity of various people with the extravagant

parties he has, Gatsby hopes to gain the love of Daisy. But the most important part to this

list is the fact that the American Dream is exactly that, a mere dream. This quest Gatsby

so passionately pressed became a never-ending circle that ultimately cost him his life. That

is why I see Gatsby’s dream as a failure.

Gatsby had an almost heavenly rise from Jay Gantz “beating his way along the

south shore of Lake Superior as a clam-digger and salmon fisherman” to the Great Gatsby

housed in “a colossal affair by any standard... with a tower on one side... a marble

swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden.” The American Dream

Gastby possesses is hidden from plain view at first. The reader is first under the impression

that money and the display of power is Gatsby’s dream. Surprisingly enough, this amazing

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Approximate Word count = 823
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)