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"He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it" (18).

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"Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther....And one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" (180).

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"...he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream" (161).

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"She vanished into...her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby—nothing. He felt married to her, that was all" (149).

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"But now he found that he had committed himself to the following of a grail" (149).

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"He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God" (110).

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"There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion" (95).

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"...a limousine...in which sat three modish negroes...I laughed aloud as the yolks of their eyeballs rolled toward us in haughty rivalry. 'Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge...anything at all...'" (69).

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"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us" (180).

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"...I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world...had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams" (180).

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Gatsby's dream is to go back to achieve is to go back to the past and pursue a relationship with Daisy Buchanan, a girl that he once loved in his teenage years.

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The term "American Dream" is a term first coined by James Truslow Adams that refers to the spirit of American lifestyle: the notion of possibility and opportunity through upward mobility that is seemingly guaranteed through hard work.