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Essay Archive - Jay Gatsby: The Dissolution of a Dream
Jay Gatsby: The Dissolution of a Dream
A dream is defined in the Webster's New World Dictionary as: a
fanciful vision of the conscious mind; a fond hope or aspiration; anything
so lovely, transitory, etc. as to seem dreamlike. In the beginning pages
of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, the
narrator of the story gives us a glimpse into Gatsby's idealistic dream
which is later disintegrated. "No- Gatsby turned out all right at the end;
it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his
dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and
short-w....
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