According to Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, dreams are a gateway to the unconscious mind and an individual's deepest desires (scientificamerican.com 1) . The American dream is about achieving great success through hard work. Deep down every individual wants to strive to get the best in what they acquire. However, not everyone will achieve their lifelong goals. This is evident in The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and There Will Be Blood written by Paul Thomas Anderson. Between these two texts the destruction of hopes and dreams can arise from minor issues such as lack of money, anger and jealousy of others, and disappointment in incredibly lofty goals. Obtaining all the riches in one's life can be a difficult task to pursue, failing to do so can lead to desperation and emptiness in an individual. Similarly, in the first 14 minutes of the film There Will be Blood, “interpersonal rejection and physical pain increased the desire for money” (Zhou 700). No matter how broken an individual was, they still retained the desire to seek money, they worked in all kinds of dangerous situations to strive for success, even if it led to them getting seriously injured. At the end of the film, the dream ended after the explosion and so Daniel let himself go, since they did not achieve his goal, he sold his well and decided to live in poverty and after that he got drunk. Furthermore, the same idea was seen in the novel The Great Gatsby, however, instead of wealth, his dream was to marry Daisy Buchanan. Although due to his financial condition when they met, he was unable to marry her simply because "rich girls don't marry poor boys" (Fitzgerald 127). Gatsby saw Daisy as his pot of gold and without her he would be left with an emptiness inside of him