Impossible Dream
... Following the end of WWI, the twenties set off a new conception of the American Dream. ... It shows how a lovesick tycoon named Jay Gatsby ended up devastating his dream as well as his life by always wanting more, specifically the marriage of a woman named Daisy. ... The simple fact that she probably still loved Gatsby more than Tom wouldn’t bring Daisy to get a divorce and live Gatsby’s dream. Gatsby ultimately cannot overcome his impossible love for Daisy and accept the fact that she doesn’t want him and probably thinks he’s crazy. ... His impossible dream never became a reality as Fitzgerald vividly shows an example how greed and money destroyed the lives of many other Americans in the 1920s.