Abstract
The Great Gatsby is a masterpiece written by the famous American writer F.Scott Fitzgerald in 1925.It is a great success both in content and writing skills.The 1920s was a decade known as Jazz Age in American history.The Great Gatsby is actually the echo of Jazz Age.It reflects the social reality,and reveals the pursuit of material and the disillusion of American dream of that age through depicting Gatsby's tragedy.This paper describes Gatsby's wonderful American dreams:dream of getting rich and dream of love,and analyzes the process of the disillusion of Gatsby's American dream.And this paper reveals the essence of American dream and the social reality of Jazz Age.