Within F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the reader is continuously warned of the dangers that dreams can cause, however dreams may offer good aspects. When dreaming can reach an extreme, they can morph and twist the mind of whoever dares to dream, transporting them to a separate world where dreams become obsession and life becomes a mental prison. In addition, with human nature to fit in with society, dreaming of becoming someone that you are not can result in horrible consequences. Although Fitzgerald offers another thought, that dreaming is what drives the human soul to be more and live their best life. The Great Gatsby embodies the full ideas of all these thoughts, as Fitzgerald builds an overwhelming sense that dreams cannot end …show more content…
As Gatsby develops through the novel he is continuously paying a higher and higher price for ‘living too long with a single dream’, that being his crippling obsession with Daisy. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby as the embodiment for his ideas of what dreaming can do to someone’s mind, drawing them from the ‘warm world’ to a cold dark pit that leaves him blind that he is trapped, as his dreams have poisoned his mind so much. As everyone is constantly going ‘against the current’, it could drive any person mad, simply trying to pursue and dream that they can never reach, as the indifference of the universe prevents it will cause every single person to eventually fall into insanity over it. As Fitzgerald presents in Myrtle, constant drive to join the wealthy world screeches for George to ‘beat [her]’, preaching insanity that her pointless pursuit has caused her, demonstrating just how an endless pursuit can lead some to insanity. Fitzgerald ultimately uses the development of the novel and therefore story as an embodiment of how dreams and the endless pursuit of them will lead to twist people’s ideas and trap them in a mental prison that they can never possibly