Dreaming until the Wake of your own Destruction: "The Great Gatsby."

Dreams are something most people want to believe in. Some not only believe in them but also try to make them the center of their life. In this way achieving one's dream might become the focus of his or her existence and might become something that therefore changes the course of somebody's life. Unfortunately if you lose contact with the real world and your feet get detached from the ground you might end up lost …

…creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness of whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made..." (188). Gatsby was closest to his dream before he tried to make it his goal-when he was a young lieutenant with Daisy in her car. The society, as the narrator Nick realized, was the foul dust that let Gatsby down and, ultimately, caused his demise.