Love, Money and Aspiration is an essay written by Roger Lewis, who argues that there is a certain separation of money and love in American fictions, one cannot have both. American fictions believed in individual's efforts until War World I, after that they shattered that idea, in this period the story of The Great Gatsby occurred. Lewis is convinced that not only the narrator Nick Carraway is double but also the protagonist Jay Gatsby. This doubleness is important, because of it Fitzgerald is able to create a character who is "naivete can be simultaneously touching and absurd" (43) it helps to show that money can destroy as much as it can build, which helps deliver the idea behind this work. Lewis begins to compare between Gatsby and Dexter Green from Horatio Alger's Dexter Green. Like Green Gatsby is able to make money and is a romantic. Gatsby is full aware of his doubleness, although he made bootlegging his profession, he is careful, while Green is not able to find the balance between money and love. Then he moves to Nick, saying he both glamorizes and undercuts Daisy so we can see her from Gatsby's eyes and without. Gatsby uses money to express his feelings to Daisy, he shows of his mansion and possessions to impress her, although his feelings are genuine this is his way in showing his affection, "Even when the sentiments are genuine, they are formulated in monetary terms" (46). Lewis says that one makes himself into something while fully aware of his new self but does not know the significance of it so it makes him turn to the past, in Gatsby's case, Gatsby keeps looking at Daisy, convinced that "the past can be repeated” (133) because the past is something he is familiar with and thinks he can control, without this past his life will be meaningless. The Great Gatsby is "sordid, loveless, commercial, and dead as the ash heaps presided over by the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg" (48) because Daisy and Tom's marriage is not ideal,