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In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald illustrates the concept of a dream as something wanted so badly, but cannot ever come true. He demonstrates this concept in many of his characters. These characters are so simple that they are complicated. They want something so badly yet they act like they don't want it only because they know that they can never have it. Fitzgerald characters are so petty, and small-minded. Gatsby is a man with, as he sees it, an attainable dream. He wishes to re-create the past. This of course is so impossible that he seems naïve to even consider it. Gatsby's brain is so freakishly devoured by this dream, that he believes that it is possible. He even goes out of his way just to be near Daisy. "Gatsby bought th