Can Money Buy Love? What is the American Dream, and how can one obtain this dream? Obviously, every American will have a different dream and will have different obstacles in achieving their goal. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby desperately wants to reach his dream and will do anything to get it. When Gatsby was in the Army and carried the name of James Gatz, he fell in love with a …showed first 75 words of 911 total…

…showed last 75 words of 911 total…the overboard parties, did Gatsby win the love of Daisy Buchanan? Well, Gatsby was not making it easy on himself by not being a very outgoing person. Gatsby being a very shy man never took the ignitiative to introducing himself to Daisy. He had to get Daisy's cousin Nick Carraway to assist with the meeting of Gatsby and Daisy. And, it took a few encounters before Gatsby could muster up enough courage to confront Daisy.