Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, dreams drive and stimulate the characters and their infatuations. The novel explores materialism and its correlation to the American dream through the reality that once you achieve the dream, you are capable of owning all the material possessions you want. However, the fact that the American dream is almost impossible to achieve is a factor in the novel, represented through the way Gatsby struggles to convince Daisy, but ultimately dies protecting her, in the hope that they will have a life happy together. . Furthermore, the importance of dreams is that they promote the American dream and its