Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the American Dream is the central concept, and this theme affects every character. Gatsby’s attempt to capture the American Dream of happiness and love is through wealth and power. Gatsby spent all of his time, energy and devotion towards his dream. The pursuit of Gatsby’s dream was tainted by the corruption surrounding his dream, and the dream itself. The energy that might have gone into …showed first 75 words of 1254 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1254 total…that was true, he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. (Pg. 169)” He believed so deeply in his dream, that without it, failure was inevitable. His death is basically insignificant; without his dream, he is essentially dead already. He had no more will to live, and no meaning to his life. His entire existence was chasing after a dream.