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 …showed first 75 words of 930 total…

…showed last 75 words of 930 total…of a supreme object, to restore to himself an illusion he had lost; he set about it, in a pathetic American way. Gatsby is a man with a dream at the mercy of the "foul dust" that sometimes seems only to exist in order to swarm against the dream. It is a strange dream, Gatsby's but he was a man who had hopes and aspirations. He was a child, who believed in a childish thing.