Hope Vs. Despair In The Great Gatsby

Gatsby’s goal for a part of his life was to become rich and be a better man in Daisy’s eyes. Now that Daisy could finally see what he had accomplished, Gatsby is in a daze, as if nothing that is happening is real. Next, he starts to think that the five years of dreaming and imagining of this day did not seem as great in reality. He had formed such an ideal of how Daisy would perform, that it did not seem to be living up to his dream.

“Without obsession, life is nothing.”(John Waters) Gatsby is obsessed with being successful in life ever since he was little. He was a poor little boy that worked up from nothing, he didn't do it legally though. He did some shady things to get to where he is now and he isnt very proud of it. So he has to lie about his past to if people ask him or stretch the truth for say. So without being obsessed Gatsby wouldn't be very far.

Gatsby himself, or Jay Gatsby. In the beginning of the novel Gatsby is seen stretching out his arms as Nick narrates, "He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way...and distinguished nothing except a single green light" (Fitzgerald 20). Upon the horizon where the light shone was his form of desperation; finding happiness with his former lover Daisy in an attempt to relive the past five years. Gatsby was compelled to achieve his goal once and for all but he was unable to find it sensibly within his reach. Gatsby's desire to be with Daisy can inarguably be labeled as “quiet desperation” in consideration only Nick and Jordan were aware of his ulterior motives for reinventing himself and taking means necessary to win her over. When Daisy was just in his reach almost satisfying his life, she abruptly slipped from his grasp. The effect of his desperation becomes pure destruction thus leading ultimately to his own corruption and downfall. As Nick states, “He looked—and this is said in all contempt for the babbled slander of his garden—as if he had ‘killed a man.’ For a moment the set of his face could be described in just that fantastic way” (Fitzgerald 134) he expresses an unrecognizable change in Gatsby as he’s devoured by his longing for a lost love. His agony induced transformation altered his internal being, subsequently contributing to his demise and taking his

I believe that the three texts that I have studied contained moments of optimism and pessimism which in turn have shaped my opinion of the general vision and viewpoint. This alludes to the feelings and emotions portrayed through the omniscient camera in "The King's Speech", the morally inclined narrator Nick Caraway in "The Great Gatsby" and the protagonist in the novel "Foster". I was very intrigued to find out more about these societies and the vision the author/director hoped to convey.

The illusions of one’s mind can lead them to unexpected ending. Gatsby allowed his illusions to guide him to his goal. He didn’t realize that he was forgetting the reality of his goal. He never cared for the consequences that his illusions could, and in the end would, cause. Gatsby allowed his illusion of Daisy to override the actuality of Daisy being married, having a child, and changing since his absence from her life. He refused to change anything that disrupted his plan to be with Daisy. At the end of one of Gatsby’s parties, Gatsby tells Nick,” I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before.” Gatsby is refusing to see the future of his life. He firmly believes he can go back in time and live his life how he sees it. He doesn’t

Throughout our lives we have to deal with the past events we have done. In many novels this appears to be a big factor in what they will eventually grow into. In the novel The Great Gatsby, the character with the biggest impact in this topic.

Although Gatsby does meticulously pursue his dream, Gatsby’s pursuits are futile and condemned. Throughout the novel we continually see the immense struggle that Gatsby endures while pursuing his dreams of wealth and Daisy, which were often connected. During the early years of Gatsby’s life, Gatsby pursues wealth and he eventually does attain this; however, the acceptance he hoped to achieve through his wealth was something that he never acquired. For instance, when Gatsby was asked to dinner out of required politeness by the socialites of East Egg, he was eager to be involved and immediately agreed. However, Gatsby was unaware of the discontent signals being portrayed by those that lived in East Egg. Nick describes the awkward situation

Hope can bring us joy and happiness or be our ultimate destruction. Since the beginning of The Great Gatsby, Gatsby has been forever looking and reaching for that which he thinks will make him happy. The green light is hope for Gatsby, hope that his past can be recaptured, his friendship with Nick will aid in his goal, and the faith he continually believes in that Daisy loves him. The green light is hope, it's Gatsby’s hope for the future.

At the local story level the reader realizes that Gatsby’s proposed reality crumbled at the hands of the other characters. There was this obsessive relationship between Gatsby and his will to purport his own reality not only onto himself, but to the rest of the world. With the death of Gatsby this phenomenon becomes blatantly clear. After all of the stories and elegant schemes Gatsby convinced the world of his success and

Jay Gatsby is introduced in the very beginning of the novel when Nick is describing him. While Nick is talking about gatsby he says how “[he had] some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away” (Fitzgerald 2). The importance of what Nick says about Gatsby shows how Gatsby cares about everyone's individual life and how he wants to make their life last as long as he is around. Nearing the end of the book there is a huge example of where gatsby will go the extra mile to make someone's life great. This is where Gatsby hides in a bush next to Daisy house to attempt to protect her from her abusive husband Tom. When Nick and

Francisco Coradal-Cougat was a famous Spanish artist who created the classic, melancholy cover F. Scott Fitzgerald used for his award winning novel, The Great Gatsby. It was painted in 1924 and named “Celestial Eyes.” The title the cover was given is very straightforward and practical, for the haunting face he drew almost looks as if it is floating in the dark blue, nighttime sky. The artwork contains a tear, a city, and eyes with two women in them. It introduces the frequent adultery, sadness, and out of control parties throughout the story. There are many sorrowful woman in the novel, including Daisy. She is cynical because of her skeptical outlook on men due to her distorted thoughts caused by the knowledge of all the adultery that is committed throughout the book. For The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the successful cover of Francis Cugat’s “Celestial Eyes” because it conveys the pessimism of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel by emphasizing women’s sorrow under watchful eyes in a chaotic city.

When he gets rich, Daisy is married, though not happily, and he still is unable to get her. Gatsby was a very depressed person after Daisy rejected him the first time. When telling Nick about when he enlisted in the war, he says; “It was a great relief and I tried very hard to die but I seemed to bear an enchanted life” (page 70). This shows how Gatsby was broken-hearted after Daisy rejected him and he didn’t want to live anymore. Also in that conversation, Nick learns that Gatsby’s family all died and he came into a good deal of money (page 70).

What Gatsby at first thought would be a wonderful reconnection with Daisy soon comes full circle and ends with their parting at the end. During the pool scene, Gatsby realizes “what a grotesque thing a rose is” and “how raw the sunlight [is] upon the scarcely created grass” (161), which can be perceived as metaphors for how Gatsby, at first, found his opportunity to be with Daisy again to be a good thing, but in the end realizes it was only a curse in the guise of a blessing. Though he is shown at the end of this scene to be looking at “a new world” with “dreams like air”, it is possible that had Gatsby not been killed right afterwards, his life after this scene would have been devastatingly dreary and disappointing (161). Accentuated by the fact that there was not “any one inside” his funeral save for Nick and Meyer Wolfsheim, it can be taken that Gatsby did not have any real friends, or family, who care enough to come see him (170). Furthermore, we get a glimpse of the life of Nick after this part.

The Great Gatsby is not merely a description about the failed aspirations of many people; it is also about how society losses innocence, and the idea of the dream being too extreme for an ideal to ever be reached. Innocence and the dream can be preceived in many ways. One can consider it to be about wealth and power, and

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, hope is a major theme throughout the novel. Hope is the act of wanting or wishing for something to happen. Gatsby, for example, is hoping that Daisy will leave her husband to be with him, this eventually leads to his death. Despite the recurring nature of the theme of hope, it is not portrayed in a completely favorable light. In fact, there is a complex attitude towards the nature of hope as shown through the narrator Nick. He believes hope is a human instinct, but it is something undoubtedly pointless in the long run.