F. Scott Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby

Yet his actions of following and having hope in her would lead him to find her actions not supporting what he wished for. Daisy wants to be a part of his life, yet her actions and decisions would hurt him both physically and mentally. She believed a life with Gatsby would finally fulfill her. When she decides to leave the hotel room after the argument, “Staying with Gatsby she decides to drive the car overwhelmed with anger and realizes her fun with Gatsby has ended”(Samkanashvili 48). All her expectations came to the reality that what she wanted was not going to ever be what she got. Only caring about herself and her issues, after that was when she killed Myrtle. “And as a result of Myrtle’s death Gatsby gets killed for Daisy’s foolish behavior”(Samkanashvili 48). Her unreasonable consciousness was not what could save Daisy now. What she did led to the death of the person we believe she loved, yet what she did for him was not very impressive. When Gatsby’s funeral came “Daisy hadn’t sent a message or a flower”(Fitzgerald 174). She did not want people to know she was caught up in this business. Daisy and Tom went away on a vacation to get away from what had happened. She never cared enough for Gatsby to risk her own appearance of being ruined through her mistakes and misjudgement. But her misstep was accompanied by the physical and

His love for Daisy is the beggest reason for this . He longs for a simpler time‒ a time where he and Daisy were in love. The past. “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was”(p.).Gatsby's desire to hold on to the past created his obsession with Daisy. Through their actions and conversations, it's quite obvious that Gatsby's feelings for Daisy were more intense than Daisy's feelings for Gatsby. Gatsby had spent his whole life dedicated to attaining wealth and status in order to impress Daisy. While Daisy on the other hand had moved on and started a whole new life on her own. In their first interaction, Daisy remembers that they simply “haven't met for many years” (p.), while Gatsby remembers it as exactly “Five years next November”(p.).Gatsby so greatly wants to keep some part of his past; and that part happens to be Daisy. Gatsby's intense feeling for Daisy also contributed to his death. Gatsby let Daisy drive his car because he loved her, he took the blame for Myrtle's death because he loved her, and he ends up getting shot because he loved

Since American literature’s emergence, the American dream has become a conceptual ideal for many people throughout history. Although the dream has its own distinct aspects throughout different time periods, it predominantly focuses on the foundations of wealth, success and a desire for something greater. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fiction novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, the protagonist, is primarily known for the numerous lavish parties he throws each weekend at his ostentatious mansion in West Egg in an attempt to reunite with Daisy Buchanan, a woman he falls in love with prior to entering the war before the Roaring Twenties. However, he is seized with an impotent realization on the fact that his wealth cannot afford him the same privileges as others that are born into the upper echelon. Gatsby is completely blinded from his opulent possessions until he becomes oblivious of the fact that money cannot buy love or happiness. Throughout the story, the predilection for materialistic features causes many characters to lose sight of their aspirations, demonstrating how a dream can become easily corrupt by one’s focus on acquiring wealth and power.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the tragic story of two star-crossed lovers. Fitzgerald uses the Roaring Twenties as the setting of this novel. The twenties were a time of promiscuity, new money, and a significant amount of illegal alcohol. Fitzgerald was a master of his craft and there was often more to the story than just the basic plot. He could intertwine political messages and a gripping story flawlessly. In the case of The Great Gatsby, he not only chronicles a love story, but also uses the opportunity to express his opinion on topics such as moral decay, crass materialism, individual ethics, and the American dream.

In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby spent years trying to achieve his dream, but he made a bad decision and lost his chance. Gatsby met Daisy a couple years before (Fitzgerald 74). He would hide his social class from her because he was afraid she wouldn’t like him. He never forgot her, even when he went to fight in the war. He has been formulating a plan to get Daisy back. He comes back and got a house across the lake from Daisy, hoping to be with her some day. He did a lot of bad business to get all of his wealth, but the money wasn’t enough. He wanted to be with Daisy. He eventually gets to meet up with Daisy because of Nick’s help, and Gatsby gets closer to being able to live a life with Daisy. One day, everyone (Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, Nick, and Jordan) is in town, renting a hotel room to deal with the heat. Tom figures out that Daisy and Gatsby have something going on. Tom gets mad and everyone starts to head home. On the way back, Gatsby lets Daisy drive his car, which was his bad decision (Fitzgerald 143). Daisy hits Myrtle,

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the compelling story of the lengths one man goes to in order to try and win back the love of his youth. In order to do so, the titular figure of the novel, Jay Gatsby, reinvents himself from the hardscrabble soldier of his younger years into an enigma of a millionaire; during his time living at West Egg, Gatsby is revered by all, but known by none. Despite the lavish lifestyle which has made him ever so well known, Gatsby is never able to win back Daisy, the girl who has for so long represented the culmination of all of his desires. To convey the complex themes of the novel, Fitzgerald makes use of the literary techniques discussed in How To Read Literature Like A Professor by Thomas C. Foster, especially in his portrayal of the geography of the Eggs and in Gatsby’s quest to win Daisy’s affection. In his novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s desperate struggle to ingratiate himself into Daisy’s life to illustrate how one can never overcome the socio-economic barriers placed upon them at birth.

He wants closure about what happened between them. Daisy confronts Gatsby about an affair she had with Tom, and he doesn’t even care at this point because what they had was ‘real’. She claims to love them both but she decides she wants to go back with Gatsby and not her husband. On her way back, she accidently kills a woman on the side of the road speeds off with Gatsby’s car. Gatsby gets blamed for the death and the husband of the woman shoots him. No one attends Gatsby’s funeral but Nick. This goes to show Gatsby really had no body in his life, and his own true love whom he did everything for, didn’t love him equally. Throughout the whole book, Fitzgerald points out that Gatsby was living his American dream, but because his dream was Daisy, he was living his dream out of fantasy not reality.

Secondly, Gatsby was responsible for his own death. He, in a sense, killed himself. Ever since he met Daisy in Louisville, he has been obsessed over the fact that they might be together again one day. Anything and everything he did was for Daisy; all his fancy parties, all his wealth, even his home – set just across the bay from her. She is the reason for his transformation from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby. After reuniting with Daisy, Gatsby believed her finally had her in his grasp forever. He even stopped holding his lavish parties, as they were no longer needed to grab her attention. However, after the big argument at the hotel suite, Gatsby learns that despite Daisy’s love for him, she will always love Tom. “’Even alone I can't say I never love Tom.’ She admitted in a pitiful voice. ‘It wouldn't be true’”(142). This is when a part of Gatsby dies, when he sees one of the only people he has ever loved go with someone else. Even after that, he takes the blame from

However, Gatsby’s life is ultimately taken away due to his burning desire for hope. His naivety in re-creating the ‘love’ he had with Daisy causes him to become a victim of his own wrong doing, the lies and the wealth all catch up to him in the end.

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

Gatsby was not willing to accept the fact that he could not get with his dream girl Daisy. The major issue in his life was that he was way too desperate to be with Daisy. "...he says he's read a Chicago paper for years on the chance of catching a glimpse of Daisy's name.” (Fitzgerald 64) This quote shows again how desperate he is for Daisy. Gatsby thought that he could change Daisy’s mind into leaving Tom for him. He also couldn’t accept the fact that Daisy would never leave Tom because Tom was old money and he was new money. He put himself in between Tom and Daisy’s marriage, which gives Tom hatred towards Gatsby. Which then eventually led to his death. All of these actions he did towards Daisy, led to his own death. But it is still not entirely Gatsby’s fault. If Daisy would have just told Gatsby that they couldn’t be together and stop playing with his feelings, he would have never gotten killed by George. It possibly would have made him heart broken for a while, but it’s better than

The marriage between both Tom and Daisy was toxic in the eyes of most people like Gatsby. Once he found out that she had a daughter; he was somewhat shocked. Daisy doesn’t end up with Gatsby because of his status and his position in the social class system. When they passed through the Valley of Ashes, Daisy was driving and she ran over and killed Myrtle, George Wilson’s wife, which makes Gatsby worry about her mental state. Even after she ran her over she didn’t stop. George Wilson thought that it was Gatsby who killed Myrtle because they were driving his car, so he shot Gatsby which killed him and then shot himself. Nick tried inviting people to the funeral, but nobody came because they didn’t want to be involved. They acted like they didn’t even know Gatsby after all he has done for them. “But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential. I found myself on Gatsby’s side, and alone … I wanted to get somebody for him” (Fitzgerald 164). This quote shows how nobody had actually been there for Gatsby for his funeral and his dream died when he did. He tried hard to get Daisy to love him again, but his plan was destroyed when he left the world. Gatsby was nothing to them. Daisy was never really a dream that he could achieve because of Tom and their

Gatsby wanted a lot from daisy. Everything he did was for her, he throw extravagant party’s hoping she would wonder in. he wanted her to move in with him, but he wanted to much when he asked her to leave tom and tell him she never loved him. Gatsby soon found out that she did love him but she loved him too.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, depicts the characters Gatsby and Daisy as symbols of the American Dream. Those who long to be at the top of the social ladder are evidence of the greedy scramble of wealth. Although Gatsby falsifies the original story of his climb to the top, this rags to riches endeavor is the pillar on which the American dream stands which gives him a mysterious yet interesting persona. Gatsby embodies Jack Solomon’s premise, in “Masters of Desire: The Culture of American Advertising”, through his empty pursuit of materialism. Solomon argues that the American dream is an ideology that measures individual success based on how much wealth and property one owns. This idea of the American Dream dictates that a person’s outward appearance gives the illusion that if one attained wealth and property, happiness would suffice. By applying Solomon’s thesis to an analysis of Gatsby, we see that this idea of the American dream is an empty pursuit of pleasure that ultimately leaves him in a whirlwind of depression.

All through the book, Gatsby's mind is stuck on getting Daisy back. He thinks that in one magical moment, Daisy will leave Tom and return to his bed for a fairy tale ending. After he comes back from the war his thoughts are on his love's betrayal, her marriage. He sees his actions as a method of love, but his thoughts are ill hearted towards others. He has been involved in illegal financial methods and is trying to break up a marriage for his own gain in life. After their fling officially begins, Gatsby has Daisy lying to Tom and he is convincing her that she never loved her husband. Gatsby thinks that by getting Daisy to realize her marital mistakes, she will simply leave Tom and marry him.  He is corrupting a relationship and an individual further than their present state of dishonesty. He thinks that his plans are going accordingly until a heated discussion breaks out and he is on the losing end. He has ended up emotionally unbalancing Daisy to the point where she accidentally kills someone. Gatsby then takes the blame like it was nothing with the thought that it is his duty. Gatsby's train of thought was a bit off the tracks and did crash and burn, but who could blame a man in love,