The Great Gatsby One of the most prominent themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, is of the American Dream. This dream can be many things to many different people, but everyone does have some sort of goal that they want to accomplish in their life. For Jay Gatsby, the dream is that through wealth, power, and financial stability, one can acquire pure happiness and self-satisfaction. This happiness that he is reaching …showed first 75 words of 345 total…

…showed last 75 words of 345 total…can do whatever pleases him, which, in this case, is an affair. Because Gatsby is part of the “nouveau riche,” he is not as accepted and welcome into that class of society. Gatsby, however, will not rest until he fulfills his dream of pure happiness by being with Daisy. In the pursuit of his disillusioned goal, Gatsby ends up dead and never able to carry out his American Dream of finding true self-satisfaction in life.