Gatsby’s Dream Improvement, wealth, popularity, and love are only a few pieces of the American 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 …showed first 75 words of 858 total…

…showed last 75 words of 858 total…and spells failure for the never ending dream he held inside of himself, this dream being the ever so unattainable American Dream. No matter how hard we try, it will always loom in the distance as a entity so close and so real that we continue on, day by day, in attempt to achieve it. Or, as Nick concludes the novel, “So we beat on, boats aginst the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”