... at one point or another. It is human nature to want to have or be something that they are not. In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman and Gatsby are characters dominated by an American dream that destroyed them. Their dreams come from an illusionary past and ... fueled Gatsby's dream and his attempt to repeat the past. In the present, Gatsby makes it very clear what he is trying to do with Daisy in a conversation with Nick, the narrator of the novel. " "I"m going to fix everything just the way it was before"". He is determined that ... current, b...

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