American Dream Of Love In The Great Gatsby

“For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing.” ( Fitzgerald 99). Gatsby and his whole soul is dependent on his love for Daisy. Gatsby 's dreams were enough to keep him satisfied for years, as a way of coping with his loss of Daisy. However, his fantasies imply that it may be to be too much to handle. The one thing Gatsby craves for more than anything is Daisy 's requited love, and is the one thing that will never happen. Daisy and her "love" for Tom is faked with words, yet her ideas of perfectionism makes the idea of her loving Gatsby disappear into thin air. When real love is found, it is felt, seen, and shown, but people can fake love with words. The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald is a tragic love story of how the American Dream of love can never be fully conquered. Through Gatsby 's effort of trying to achieve the American dream of love he is stripped of those dreams when Daisy shows superficial love. Love is impossible to gain in the …show more content…
Gatsby throughout the whole novel was focused on one dream ,the dream he wanted was Daisy and her love. He thought that he would be able to conceive her love once more if he had possessed in the past, if he had shown her now that he could take care of her like he could not before.
"I thought of Gatsby‘s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy‘s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could barely fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night" (180, 182).
Through this we are able to see the "light" at the end of the dock. The light