Therefore, this term paper will also investigate how Gatsby's dream further develops since being separated from Daisy and finally what happens when he meets Daisy again - why does she in the end “ short of his dreams” ? How does Gatsby's dream develop in connection with his fascination to Daisy? Claiming that, although two people are involved, his dream is only focused on himself, I will try to show, at least to a certain extent, how Gatsby's dream has “three basic and related parts: the desire to repeat the past, the desire for money, and the desire for incarnation of ‘unutterable visions’ in the material earth.” Since Daisy represents all of these dreams when they meet for the first time, she becomes the personification of his dream, but in the course of the events their paths become separated. ![]() Out of the various approaches to the book, this paper will focus on the character constellation of the protagonist Jay Gatsby and Daisy, the woman with whom he falls in love. The Great Gatsby by Fitz Scott Fitzgerald is considered to be one of the greatest American novels, one of the key themes in the book is Gatsby's dream and it will be the centre of this term paper. But what happens when this ideal is rooted in the past? Is it still possible then, as Lindbergh claimed, to dream of the future or does it turn to “an unrealistic or self-deluding fantasy” ? Or is it exactly this characteristic of impossibility which makes a dream a dream - can a dream ever be fully achieved or is its attractiveness rooted in its elusiveness? Presumably, everyone of us has a dream, “a cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal”. “Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.” Charles Lindbergh, the American aviator who piloted the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927, seemed to have achieved something extraordinary - the impossible, something that had been a ‘dream’ for many years. The ‘reunion’ - Daisy "tumbles short of his dreams” ![]() Separated from Daisy - Gatsby building up a colossal construct around her Gatsby meets Daisy - Daisy becomes the personification of his dream Gatsby's dream before meeting Daisy - an imaginary construct of himself
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