Fitzgerald's The Great GatsbyAlthough to the casual reader The Great Gatsby may appear only as a poetic muse on the seemingly endless roller coaster that is love, if one dives deeper into this novel it is easily discovered that not only is this the quintessential quest for the Grail, but it is also clearly a quest for the American dream. Gatsby plays a dueling role in this piece of American history; it is both the Holy Crusader, searching for his personal Cup of Christ, and the Cinderella story of Fitzgerald's masterpiece. If one could reduce this novel to its core, there would be nothing left but this phrase "the orgastic future that year after year recedes before us." arms further away... And one beautiful morning-" (GG189). This is the crux; this is the beautiful epiphany at the end of a man's hell, this is the light at the end of the long tunnel of greed and 'hate. Even if you only scratched the surface of this piece, you would see that Gatsby's rise to power, his personal torment and inevitable downfall, and Nick's eventual realization of what life is truly about, lead to conclusion that a corrupt dream is is still a dream worth having First of all, Gatsby is nothing more than a man searching for his dream and will not allow anything to stand in his way..