Scott Fitzgerald's highly accomplished novel, The American Dream, he portrays the longing for the American Dream as a significant part of ones life, very familiar to society as a corrupted essence of reality and ideals that the characters, especially Jay Gatsby, truly represent. ... This quote can also be tied with the fact that Daisy Buchanan doesn't comprehend the facts of why she should leave her husband, Tom, if he was having an affair that she was well aware of. ... This shows that her dreams are based on the fact that she thought she would be happy if her husband was a gentle...

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