Gatsby’s dream involves him meeting Daisy Buchannan again, hearing her renounce any feelings that she ever had for her husband, Tom, and for her to love and live with Gatsby for the rest of their lives. One of the themes of the novel is the achievement of the America Dream and this is Gatsby’s American Dream. We know from the many times that it is mentioned in the novel that Gatsby feared that Daisy did not wait for him because he was not rich; therefore, Gatsby creates a life for himself in which he has become almost more wealthy than Tom. Daisy is amazed by Gatsby’s wealth, mentioning once that it makes her cry. Although this is all Gatsby wanted – for Daisy to say that she never loved Tom – Daisy reveals in one of the ending chapters when the entire group gets together at the Biltmore in New York that she can not say that she never loved Tom. At this point, Gatsby’s dream comes crashing down and he knows that no matter what happens his dream will not come true and he dies thinking himself a failure.
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