In 1908, his father was fired from Procter & Gamble, and the family returned to Minnesota, where Fitzgerald attended St. Paul Academy in St. Paul from 1908 to 1911. When he was 13 he saw his first piece of writing appear in print—a detective story published in the school newspaper. In 1911, when Fitzgerald was 15 years old, his parents sent him to the Newman School, a prestigious Catholic prep school in Hackensack, New Jersey. Fitzgerald played on the 1912 Newman football team. At Newman, he met Father Sigourney Fay, who noticed his incipient talent with the written word and encouraged him to pursue his literary ambitions.
After graduating from the Newman School in 1913, Fitzgerald decided to stay in New Jersey to continue his artistic development at Princeton University. Fitzgerald tried out for the college football team, but was cut the first day of practice. At Princeton, he firmly dedicated himself to honing his craft as a writer. There he became friends with future critics and writers Edmund Wilson (Class of 1916) and John Peale Bishop (Class of 1917), and wrote for the Princeton Triangle Club, the Nassau Lit, and the Princeton Tiger. He was a member of the University Cottage Club, which still displays Fitzgerald's desk and writing materials in its library.
Fitzgerald's writing pursuits at Princeton came at the expense of his coursework. He was placed on academic probation, and in 1917 he dropped out of school to join the U.S. Army. Afraid that he might die in World War I with his literary dreams unfulfilled, in the weeks before reporting for duty Fitzgerald hastily wrote a novel called The Romantic Egotist. Although the publisher Charles Scribner's Sons rejected the novel, the reviewer noted its originality and encouraged Fitzgerald to submit more work in the future.
This paper, which is based on a discussion of the reality of a dream, is aimed at proving a proposition that whether a dream can be realized or not depends mostly on the reliability of the dream itself: how supportive the pedestal of the dream is to the dream, a perspective, a paramount one actually, often neglected when a dream is judged in terms of success or failure. That is a new and inspiring perspective of dream analyses. The extensional meaning of dream refers to wish or hope. And in the novel the Great Gatsby, we often call it the American dream. But this paper is not to talk about the American dream; the point of this paper is to argue about the cornerstone of dream. That is, the realistic feasibility of realizing dreams has decisive impact on the realization of dreams.
2    Analysis of Dreams
It is believed that everyone should have their own dreams. The notion of dream is universal. From the perspective of physiology, “Modern Chinese dictionary” explains that: “dream is a surface activity in one’s mind which caused by part of the brain substance that is not completely stop working during sleeping.” And Mr. Wang Jisheng(2006) says: "the dream is man's consciousness and unconsciousness in psychological activity information stored in the brain and in the process of sleep in a certain way to combine psychological phenomenon".
Psychoanalysts Freud (1900) in the book Interpretation of Dreams said that “The essence of dream is a sort of subdued, suppressed, disguised satisfaction by the desire. In other words, because people's desire in reality is not satisfied, then they take a circuitous manner in a dream.” And the ancient Greek philosopher Plato thought that “the dream is the continuation of human daily life” and “dream is the source of creation”
Dream, in English, literally means the successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. In short, a dream is an experience during sleep. Further, dreams may also refer to wish—a hope or desire for something. The novel the Great Gatsby tells a story of American dream. And this chapter will present what Gatsby’s dream was and then try to analyze what was wrong with his dream. 梦想的基石《了不起的盖茨比》新视角鉴析 (3):http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_24474.html