The Iranian Revolution was a dream of the Iranian people to break the growing class barrier between the rich and poor and to replace a decadent pro-western culture with a purer Islamic state that dedicates "man to a holy life." When the revolution began, the dream of a much freer and better Iran began, but this dream was an obsession by the majority of the people that would not be actualized. This is very similar to the dream as represented in Gatsby, in the book The Great Gatsby, where he is obsessed with the similarly impossible dream of acquiring Daisy. In the book, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi shows the similarities of the Iranian dream and Gatsby's dream in relation to their obsession and equal consequence. Mr. Nyazi, the pro-Islamic movement activist from Azra's class relates the American dream to Gatsby, from the book The Great Gatsby...