. The American Dream promises prosperity and fulfilled desires as rewards for hard work and self-reliance. The American Dream is often considered to go hand and hand with good-naturednis. However in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby were are introduced to another perception of the American Dream. That some may believe that the American Dream goes hand in hand with goodness and excellence, however others take the dream to be purely materialistic. Fitzgerald shows …showed first 75 words of 367 total…

…showed last 75 words of 367 total…and that he could get the life she wanted if he paid for it. He wanted to do away with time in order to obliterate the four years Tom and Daisy had together. Gatsby wanted to repeat the past, "I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before. She'll see . . .".(117) Gatsby's romantic disregard for reality changes the American Dream with his dream that love can be recaptured if one can make enough money.