Fitzgerald is the author of novels such as The side of paradise about life at university, and his most famous novel, The Great Gastby that was written in Europe, the book is about desillusiment in an American context, the desillusiment because of the call of the American dream. Materialism kills the protagonist, that is performed on the falling in love of Daisy that corrupt Gatsby’s spiritual dream. That text is extremely pessimistic talking about the death of illusion.