It is generally understood that persistence and purpose allow one to attain their American Dream. Though for one character in the Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby, his journey is destined for a futile outcome. Jay Gatsby is so overzealous in his pursuit of the American Dream that his ambition blinds him from achieving it. Gatsby’s desire to be with Daisy is polluted by his superficial, unrealistic image of her; in fact his desires stem from the idea of Daisy- the “golden girl”- not Daisy herself. He will never achieve his American Dream because he superimposes Daisy over the concept of the perfect girl, and does not see that they do not match. Gatsby has obsessively brainwashed himself into believing that Daisy is the only future he has,
