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The attempt to capture the American dream is central to
many novels. This dream is different for different people, but
in The Great Gatsby, for Jay, the dream is that through
wealth and power, one can acquire happiness. This
happiness is something for which he must reach into the past
to have and for which he must revive an old dream.

Jay Gatsby, the central figure of the story, is one character
who longs for the past. Surprisingly he devotes most of his
adult life trying to recapture and, finally, dies in its pursuit.

In the past, Jay had a love affair with the affluent Daisy.
Knowing he could not marry her because of the difference in
their social status, he leaves her to amass wealth to reach her
economic standards. Once he acquires this wealth, he
moves near to Daisy and throws extravagant parties, hoping
by chance she might show up at one of them. He, himself,
does not attend his parties but watches them from a
distance. When this dream doesn't happen, he......

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