Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes was an extraordinary poet, and his poem Dream Deferred is an example of this. This poem relates to Gatsby because Gatsby has a dream and follows it through, but it is never attained and his dream ends up deferred. The poem says "does it dry up like a raisin in the sun", which is the process of how raisins are made, and as a result of this process it becomes sweeter and tougher. This relates to Gatsby's view of  Daisy because as more time goes on away from Daisy, Gatsby's idea of being together becomes better and better. "Or fester like a sore- and then run" this line refers to how Gatsby is trying so hard to finally attain his dream, while not realizing that in the end it is unattainable. Or maybe the dream "sags like a heavy load", and in Gatsby's case it does because even though his dream was a fail in bringing back the past and having Daisy in her innocence, it is still a heavy load, or a burden to Gatsby because the dream will always weigh in on him. "Or does it just explode?" Gatsby's lifelong dream ends up exploding in the end because he can never have the image of Daisy that he dreamed about for so long, and even though he will always want Daisy he will never have her, having only loved him and not Tom.