The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the story of a man named Jay Gatsby whose dream of reconciling with his first love will never be fulfilled. Although the main happenings of the novel are those of Gatsby trying to woo Daisy, there are many underlying themes such as money, deceit and reality which do not permit such a dream to be fulfilled. Gatsby’s dream was to recreate the past with his …showed first 75 words of 1192 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1192 total…nothing. p139 Despite all these factors, Gatsby could not see that his dream was never going to eventuate. He had too many high expectations of what was to come and in reality he was not able to expect everything to go his way. His dream was so simple and clear-cut in his mind that he set himself up for failure by looking past the underlying factors that would not allow his dream to be fulfilled.