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the fragile dream: reflections on The Great Gatsby

There’s a moment in The Great Gatsby that stays with me — when Gatsby looks at Daisy and realizes she doesn’t love him the way he imagined. All his lavish parties, his endless hope, and that grand dream of a perfect future — it shatters in an instant. Fitzgerald captures the bittersweet nature of the American Dream: a dazzling ideal that often turns out to be just a fragile illusion. Reading it, I felt the ache of chasing something beautiful yet unreachable, the tension between who we want to be and who we really are. Gatsby’s dream isn’t just about wealth or status. It’s about longing, loss, and the human desire to rewrite our own story — even when the past won’t let us. It reminds me that sometimes, the most tragic stories are those about hope. #Entertainment #Books #ModernClassics #TheGreatGatsby