Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, dreams guide and stimulate the characters and their infatuations. The novel explores materialism and how it relates to the American Dream through the reality of how once you achieve the dream you can own all the material possessions you desire. However, the fact that the American dream is almost impossible to achieve is a factor within the novel, depicted through how Gatsby struggles to win Daisy, but ultimately dies protecting her, in the hope that they can have a joyful life together. . Furthermore, the importance of dreams is linked to the fact that they promote the American dream and his