Examples Of Irony In The Great Gatsby

Symbolism: The library represents Gatsby's hope for the future. His hopes are in a fragile state and any disruption would cause it to collapse. The man in the library is also similar to Nick because he is one of the only other people to show up to Gatsby's funeral and in the same way may have been concerned for Gatsby's wellbeing, similar to his concern for the stability of the library. The man in the library is probably the only other character that attempted to understand Mr. Gatsby.

Gatsby has everything that he could wish for, except of love. Gatsby tried everything he could to achieve Daisy, but failed to do so. Gatsby always thought that Daisy actually loved him and that he was very close to achieving her. One time Gatsby showed Daisy all of his luxuries in the house. Daisy was impressed by how rich and wealthy Gatsby has become as time passed. Daisy says “never seen so many shirts like these” (87). This quote shows how Daisy likes materialistic things. Gatsby worked hard on his dream unlike Tom. Tom Buchanan who is the husband of Daisy has no purpose and goal in his life except his affair with Myrtle. He never really loved Daisy. On the other hand when Gatsby showed all of his English shirts Daisy begins to cry and they plan their future plans of meeting each other. We can see how Daisy is attracted to Gatsby simply because of his wealth. She loves Gatsby but she loves his money more then she actually loves him. This goes to show how people’s mentality worked in the 1920’s. Daisy, Gatsby, and all other characters live a very superficial life. Gatsby wants to achieve Daisy by the means of fortune and how Daisy is attracted to Gatsby because of his wealth.

The rekindling of this epic “love” tale begins when Gatsby buys a house directly across the bay from Daisy, her husband, and child. They do not know it yet, but Jay certainly does. Every night he walks outside and stares through the fog at the green light on Daisy’s dock. Some would consider these gestures endearing and romantic, but with all of that left aside it still seems as if he is stalking her. He is always searching for her everywhere he goes and is intrigued by the mentioning of her name. She is married to Tom Buchanan, a descent from old money, and is living quite lavishly. She hardly remembers Gatsby even exists until Jordan Baker mentions him at dinner. When Daisy hears Jay’s name a sudden bolt goes through her and she flooded with memories of the past. Everyone at dinner can see how this has affected her, including her husband. Nick, who is unaware of the situation, is surprised at what he has seen.

Tom attends the party in many ways to try and ruin Gatsby he is critical about everything like also the decorations the people that are there, the way Gatsby behaves. Anything he can criticize of he does so also he attempts to make a rumor that Gatsby is a bootlegger. And decides after the party that he will really get into Gatsby’s past and try to harm him. And this starts to take a path of destruction. It starts becoming clear that Daisy’s love for Gatsby is false just like the love for Tom and there sadly Gatsby’s love that he thought to find when he asks Daisy to abandon Tom and be at his side. So Tom wants to ruin Gatsby and Gatsby wants Daisy which is a pretty big difference and he is not looking for any paypack like Tom is.

The Great Gatsby has been around for ages; it is a story of a young man in the 1920’s who is thrown into a new world made up of the new and the old rich. He is confused by the way these people act and in the end cannot stay another minute in this strange, insensitive, materialistic world. The author, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses many techniques to help the reader understand how Nick Carraway (the narrator) is feeling throughout the story. In the book The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses effective language to make his writing successful. He uses the techniques of imagery and irony to display this message.

Gatsby said to Nick when his first time he had called on Nick. Apparently, it is verbal irony because the “old sport” is used to show a person familiarity with another person. However, when Gatsby uses it, he is not as much as familiar with Nick so, it shows Gatsby is a myopic and self-centered demeanor. Second, he repeats the “old sport” several times constantly consequently, Nick either likes him nor trusts him. Third, it is irony because Nick will be the only friend of him to attend the

Gatsby uproots his entire life, changing his name and adopting questionable morals, just to entertain the idea of being the recipient of Daisy’s love. Gatsby’s love for Daisy is documented throughout the novel by his actions and the thoughts that motivate them. He puts his whole life on hold, and ultimately to an end, for the possibility of rekindling the romance he once had with Daisy, morality be damned. Gatsby sacrifices his name, his morals, and his life to have a chance at a relationship with a married woman he loved before. Gatsby’s actions are for purely selfish reasons, he wants Daisy back. The reader cannot help, however, identifying and sympathizing with Gatsby as he ventures on his quest to reclaim the love he and Daisy once shared. Although the novel deals with greed and materialism leading to despair, evident through Gatsby’s wealth leading him to death rather than life, one cannot help but hold out hope for a happy ending. Gatsby is a character who is clearly morally wrong, but is favored by the reader to finally fulfill his wish of having Daisy through any means necessary. Gatsby’s character is the biggest example of the theme of the novel, him being “great” yet still not able to use his wealth to gain

Moreover, Gatsby travels great lengths in order create a visually display of his expansive and admirable collection of materialistic wealth, as a means of displaying to Daisy the possible luxuries and wealth she could possess in exchange for her love. Specifically, following Gatsby’s initial acquaintance with Daisy Buchanan, he insists that they relocate their ecstatic reconciliation to his house. Upon exposing Daisy to his fortress of luxurious solitude, Nick observes that “He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes” (96 - 97). Therefore, this indicates Gatsby’s inability to separate his illusions from reality, alternatively, on account of his wealth, he mistaken believes that if he could fulfill Daisy’s materialistic needs, she would repay him with her infinite affection. In conclusion, throughout Gatsby’s conquest for the affection of the beloved and internally flawed Daisy Buchanan, he becomes the “boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (189). Regrettably, Gatsby’s illusion and longing desires for Daisy consume himself, thereby allowing him to falsely believe that his vast fortune will provide contentment, whereas, in reality his fortune and lifestyle only mask the inevitable destruction of himself.

Gatsby explains how he wants to rekindle his relationship with Daisy and he is desperate to repeat what they once had. He wants it to seem as if the past had not happened and that Daisy never married Tom. If he could go back he would but he cannot so he will do anything and everything it takes to get Daisy back and fulfil the perfect picture he has in his head. This shows Gatsby’s love for Daisy because he is willing to do anything to win her back.

“In his blue gardens men and women came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars” (Fitzgerald 39). In his character, his relationships, and his gatherings, Jay Gatsby epitomized the illusion of a perfect romance. When Gatsby and Daisy met in 1917, he was searching for money, but ended up profoundly falling in love with her. “[H]e set out for gold and stumbled upon a dream” (Ornstein 37). Only a few weeks after meeting one another, Gatsby had to leave for war, which led to a separation between the two for nearly five years. As “war-torn lovers” Gatsby and Daisy reach the quintessential ideal of archetypical romance. When Gatsby returned from the war, his goal was to rekindle the relationship he once had with Daisy. In order to do this, he believed he would have to work hard to gain new wealth and a new persona. “Jay Gatsby loses his life even though he makes his millions because they are not the kind of safe, respectable money that echoes in Daisy’s lovely voice” (Ornstein 36). Gatsby then meets Daisy’s cousin, Nick Carraway, who helps to reunite the pair. Finally being brought together after years of separation, Gatsby stops throwing the extravagant parties at his home, and “to preserve [Daisy’s] reputation, [he] empties his mansion of lights and servants” (Ornstein 37). Subsequent to their reconciliation, Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s husband, begins to reveal sordid information about Gatsby’s career which causes Daisy to

In society, people who seek to be loved and don’t receive it, will be ungrateful due to the inability of controlling others feelings. This occurrence is found multiple times in the novel The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of irony illustrates, how when love is unstable, it will leave a person betrayed. This is shown throughout the story with failed relationships, and ignorant characters.

The main characters in the book have obsessions that will lead to misunderstanding and destruction for them. Gatsby has always thought as himself as being married to Daisy those long 5 years even though she had forgotten about him and was married to someone else. He was obsessed with the idea of her and him together and the life they could have had, she is a like a sweet smelling poison that he drank and it destroyed him. Daisy was in love with Gatsby when they were younger but now she

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In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses irony, or a situation that is different than what was expected, to create comic relief and develop the theme. But mostly it is used to help develop the characters. An example of this is in chapter two when Myrtle is talking to her sister about men. She says, “‘Most of these fellas will cheat you every time. All they think of is money’” (Fitzgerald 31). This is ironic because Myrtle is the one cheating on her husband, and she’s doing it because he doesn’t have enough money for the expensive lifestyle she wants to live. Fitzgerald uses irony here to develop the characters, especially Myrtle. He shows off the twisted mind set of his characters and how they all think they are perfect. Here, Myrtle is

Before reading the novel The Great Gatsby I had already had an idea of what type of person Gatsby was going to be. Just from the word great it is portrayed that Gatsby is a glorious individual, or if you look at some of the synonyms for great it can soon turn to the meaning of something being catastrophic. Only after reading the novel did I come to realize that the title is actually ironic and many themes help build the “glorious” Gatsby character. To understand the title of the Great Gatsby you must know that irony is the key. Many of the novel's themes give the impression of mocking the Jay Gatsby characters “greatness”. I have learned that the author Fitzgerald himself at first did not want to name the book Great Gatsby, so it makes me