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-winded elation's of men." Gatsby is revealed to us slowly and
             skillfully, and with a keen tenderness which in the end makes his tragedy
             Jay Gatsby is a crook, a bootlegger who has involved himself with
             swindlers like Meyer Wolfsheim, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series.
             He has committed crimes in order to buy the house he feels he needs to win
             the woman he loves. In chapter five Nick says, "...and I think he
             revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it
             drew from her well-loved eyes." Everything in Gatsby's house is the zenith
             of his dreams, and when Daisy enters Gatsby's house the material things
             seem to lose their life. Daisy represents a dreamlike, heavenly presence
             which all that he has is devoted to. Yes, we should consider Jay Gatsby
             as tragic figure because of belief that he can restore the past and live
             happily, but his distorted faith is so intense that he blindly unaware of
             realism that his dream lacks. Gatsby has accumulated his money by
             dealings with gangsters, yet he remains an innocent figure, he is
             extravagant. Gatsby is not interested in power for its own sake or in
             money or prestige. What he wants is his dream, and that dream is embodied
             in Daisy. Ironically, Daisy Buchanan, is a much more realistic, hard-
             headed character. She understands money and what it ...