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money and lived a more extravagant life would be respected much more and have more friends. On the other hand, the person, who neither had money nor fame, would be looked down upon by others, not mention to live a better life or have a true love from another. Whatever their American Dream was, the only way and first thing they should do was to earn enough money. Without money, there was no achievement, including love. Self-made and self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby who lived in the period of the First World War embodies some of Fitzgerald's, and his countries, most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed and the promise of new beginnings. At that time, almost every one of the youth had an American Dream for themselves. And all the people including immigration and poor people had a desire and regard for a perfect life. Such a perfect life should be full of big house, much money, delicious food, cost cars, as well as freedom. Everyone had a different idea for his or her American Dream; everyone’s American Dream may be totally different from each other; that is what makes them all individuals. The dream may differ in that some people wanted to work hard and had financial success, or others might just want to have enough food and income to survive, and made their life simple, healthy and happy.（邓年刚，潭素钦, 1997, 1: 1） However, there was a common truth that everyone who lived in that period actually had an American Dream and eager to achieve it and everyone has an American Dream which is to have a good opportunity to realize personal dream. B. Gatsby’s Pursuit of American Dream From the novel The Great Gatsby, there is a knowledge that Gatsby’s American Dream is to win daisy’s love, and everything he spares no effort to do is to regain the love of Daisy. In order to make his American Dream come true, Gatsby not only gets money from illegal trade of alcohol, and he also does everything Daisy asks him to do including scarify his precious life. 1. Gatsby’s American Dream As for the great Gatsby, his American Dream is to have much money and then win Daisy, who is in love with Gatsby five years ago but now is the wife of rich Tom. Gatsby thinks that only if he has much money, at least has more money than Tom, should he win Daisy’s love. So it is reasonable for him to pursue material wealth in order to win the love of Daisy.（克罗蒂亚•罗思•皮埃罗庞, 2004, 7: 2） Gatsby is a young millionaire, but he has an unsavory reputation of the past and he is much suspicious by many people who have enjoyed in his parties about his wealth. Gatsby has little connection with the social stratum which he contacts, and nobody knows the ways he gets so much money. Some say he did illegal trade, some say he had killed someone, or he is the nephew of William Second. However, he is always a lonely person, although he has extravagant parties frequently and there are so many rich and famous people from all around the world come to take part in his parties and even they are proud of having seen him once. But the only thing he really wants to achieve is to regain the past when he is in love with Daisy, and this is the symbol of his American Dream, too. （Zheng Chenggong, 2002,3: 5） Gatsby’s attempt to achieve his American Dream which is to recapture the love of Daisy Buchanan whom he had known five years before the action of the novel begins, when he is a young and poor officer in the United States army and Daisy is a young unmarried woman, who used to live a lu