The novel The Great Gatsby is set during the 1920's on Long Island, New York. In the novel, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby has a dream that a majority people would want to live. The dream is made up of things that may vary from one person to another, but it is still a basic dream for most people. Finding someone that you truly love and that truly loves you back is one part of …showed first 75 words of 886 total…

…showed last 75 words of 886 total…require a great deal of changing to acquire. Most of the time, if someone truly desires something, they will only suffer. This is because when they don’t get what they desire, they are left even sadder knowing they won’t have what they’ve wanted a for a long time. These are just some of the lessons that can be learned from many of the themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.