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Nick longs to live the life of a millionaire, but for now the most he is able to do is to live next to one who represents his ideal life. Nick’s ideal world is one of money, and to him, Gatsby represents the life in which he thinks he would like to live. Nick demonstrates his admiration for Gatsby and his wish to be able to live that life when he says, “there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life” bespeaking that Nick finds the wealthy to be “gorgeous” and that he represents everything Nick finds to be the ideal life. Nick finds wealth to be something fantastical and it is something he strives to attain for himself in order for him to live his ideal life. Nick believes himself to be in the pursuit of the ideal life in his new home in West Egg, and that to be wealthy is a life of ease in which there is little struggle, the ideal life.

At first glance, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby appears to be a tragic love story about Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. But upon closer examination, readers will see that their love wasn’t love at all; rather, it was an obsession on Gatsby’s part. He had built up Daisy as he’d remembered her, negligent of the fact that they had both grown and she had changed. Gatsby hadn’t been in love with Daisy, but the idea of Daisy. However, Gatsby isn’t the only one guilty of romanticism. The book’s seemingly reliable narrator, Nick Carraway, is just as culpable as the title character when it comes to idealizing someone beyond their true nature. In his case, the target of his idealism is none other than Jay Gatsby. Nick’s romanticism of the

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by a renowned American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The magnificent tale is told through the eyes of Nick Carraway and it is through his perceptions of characters that influence our thoughts of the entire story. Fitzgerald allows Nick to see both worlds and sides of conflict, as he is the moral center of the book. Even though the protagonist can be considered as an unreliable author, readers tend to agree with his sincere perceptions distinguishing between right and wrong, good people and bad people, truths and lies and reality. However, this quality does not interrupt the fact that he is an unreliable author. Revolving around the criticism of the ‘American dream’, Fitzgerald clearly uses Nick Carraway

When Gatsby reveals to about his relationship with Daisy, Nick’s relationship with Gatsby takes a full u-turn as it rapidly advances their association from simple acquaintances to close friends. Nick’s outlook of Gatsby undergoes a similar transformation. When Nick learns of the previous relationship between Gatsby and Daisy, Gatsby’s actions make sense to Nick. The mansion, the extravagant parties, and the green light were all in the efforts for making Daisy notice him. Gatsby lives his life for the past life that he lived. He spends his life seeking the attention of his love, Daisy, and as Nick explains, “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…” (Fitzgerald 110). Gatsby sought out the American dream in order to win over the love of Daisy which creates a different perception of himself to Nick. Nick, now knowing Gatsby’s intentions worries about Gatsby’s possible rejection, and then warns him that, “[he] wouldn’t ask too much of her, you can’t repeat the past.” (Fitzgerald 110) But Gatsby, blinded by love, strives to win Nick’s married cousin’s heart. Nick perceives Gatsby as a man dwelling on the past

Through the use of powerful diction and irregular syntax, Fitzgerald creates feeling of unfulfilled potential. Fitzgerald uses clear, piercing phrases such as “Daisy tumbled short” and “colossal vitality of his illusion” to show how unreachable Gatsby’s dream had become for both parties involved. Fitzgerald’s strong word choice illustrates the magnitude of the change happening in Daisy and Gatsby’s relationship, and how Gatsby and Nick are both feeling anticlimactic with the aforementioned change. Gatsby has been hoping and dreaming of having Daisy’s love again for nearly five years, and Nick has planned this meeting for the two to act as a catalyst for the rekindling of a flame Gatsby and Daisy once had. In other words, Gatsby and Nick both have their hopes up and some investment in the reunion. Daisy on the other hand “tumble[s]” in and is excited and joyous. She had not dreamed of this, planned on this, or hoped for this like the

Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a novel documenting the experiences Nick Carraway has in New York, is ultimately used to voice Fitzgerald’s perception of the American dream. Nick, voicing the message from Fitzgerald, affirms his confidence in the matter that the American Dream will always be unattainable. From the beginning of the novel, Gatsby is illustrated as a mysterious character who constantly changes his backstory in an attempt to appeal to the “old rich.” As Nick and Gatsby became acquainted, Nick abominated Gatsby as he ascertained that Gatsby’s methods to pursue wealth and Daisy were scandalous. In the end, Nick conceived a new perspective on life proceeding Gatsby’s death which is portrayed through his thought that, “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby focuses on the excitement and adventure of the roaring twenties, a time filled with great economic success and parties said to last the whole decade. New to Long Island and New York, aspiring bond man Nick Carraway becomes infatuated with the lifestyle of his rich peers living the “American dream”. He gains interest in his mysterious neighbor Jay Gatsby, who lives in an incredible mansion and has a vast amount of wealth. Gatsby uses his money to try and steal his love, Daisy Buchanan from her unfaithful husband, Tom. Characters in The Great Gatsby are unhappy and unfulfilled with their lives due to greed manipulating their view of The American Dream. This skewed perception also affects their unreasonable life expectations and their narcissistic thoughts create a larger potential for failure, such as Gatsby’s extravagant plan to steal Daisy Buchanan.

The Great Gatsby, first published in 1925, echoes its era, and predicts its tragic end. In the novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald “revealed the negative side of the period’s gaiety and freedom, portraying wealthy and attractive people leading imperiled lives in gilded surroundings” (Danzer 656).It illustrate “the dying American Dream and the corruption of historical values”(Bewley 23). The wealthy characters in the book are careless, materialistic and empty, showing the corrupt side of the American Dream, but Gatsby is different. In the novel, Nick describes him as having “an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such I have never found in any other person and which is not likely I shall ever find again” (Fitzgerald 2).He kept believing and fighting for his dreams to the very end, even after it became clear that Daisy would not leave Tom to stay with him.

The Great Gatsby”, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, portrays a world filled with rich societal activities, love affairs, and dishonesty. Nick Carraway is the busy narrator of the book, a curious choice considering that he is in a different class and almost in a different world than Gatsby and the other characters. Nick relates the plot of the story to the reader as a part of Gatsby’s circle. He has hesitant feelings towards Gatsby, despising his personality and corrupted dream but feeling drawn to Gatsby’s wonderful ability to hope. Using Nick as an honorable guide, Fitzgerald attempts to guide readers on a journey through the novel to show the corruption and failure of the American Dream. To achieve

     F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a tragic tale of love distorted by obsession. Finding himself in the city of New York, Jay Gatsby is a loyal and devoted man who is willing to cross oceans and build mansions for his one true love. His belief in realistic ideals and his perseverance greatly influence all the decisions he makes and ultimately direct the course of his life. Gatsby has made a total commitment to a dream, and he does not realize that his dream is hollow. Although his intentions are true, he sometimes has a crude way of getting his point across. When he makes his ideals heard, his actions are wasted on a thoughtless and shallow society. Jay Gatsby effectively embodies a romantic idealism

Full of longing but misery, obsession but adultery, pretty embellished truths but manipulation…it’s hard to see how they loved one another in the first place. In fact, all we see from The Great Gatsby is toxic, dysfunctional friendships and relationships. Probably the only relationship that had the possibility to be redeemed into something remotely healthy was Nick and Gatsby’s friendship. A strong theme in the ‘Roaring 20’s’ and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book was the reckless wealthy. They broke material items and human beings both.

In doing so, Cody had Gatsby be his assistant who experienced the effects of alcohol. Cody taught him how to become the wealthy man he had dreamed off while keeping him modest in relation to alcohol. The man that once was James became his own idea of great through influential surroundings. In all of the attempts to learn how to be renowned, Gatsby unknowingly kept the same heart he was born with into his humble family. Watching Gatsby after Daisy had left, Nick describes the heart of a man who had been in love with an absent woman. “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” (96) Despite the man Gatsby had become, he could not rid of the great heart deep within his soul. There was no amount of change that could create an entirely new man, only a different facade. That facade had become the typical Jay, an unseen man to the public now. Gatsby had adjusted to the supposed new life, one that was the greatest every week. There were no longer days worrying about money or being alone, times revolved around putting on the best party for the people who appeared. Similarly to Gatsby; Nick, Gatsby’s only true friend; had come accustom to the West Egg lifestyle. Describing the strange atmosphere of Gatsby’s house when Tom arrived with Daisy, “It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.” (104) Although these are Nick’s words they apply to Gatsby as well.

about Gatsby is the American dream: his personality, especially his endless amount of hope, his "old money", and how he uses this money for luxurious parties, and having fun. In other words, Nick believes that the American dream is to have enough money to throw parties and to have fun. He also believes that hope is a part of the American dream as well. We can see that Nick believes that Gatsby embodies the American dream when he states that there is"something gorgeous about him" (Fitzgerald 2) and that his personality and lifestyle is "some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life" (Fitzgerald 2). Nick is saying that there is something different about Gatsby and that he portrays the "promises of life", or the American dream. Nick is also stating that Gatsby has a "gorgeous

Yet, as Gatsby gets closer to recreating the past he slowly drifts away from the true reality of things. Gatsby is so caught up in his own fantasy, that his reality is different than the rest. Gatsby see’s the world through the eyes of a wealthy and blinded romantic, while Nick see’s the world in its cruel and true form. For Gatsby to transition his life from being a helpless nobody to a wealthy somebody, means that he can accomplish anything. This motivation sets up Gatsby to believe that he is

The Narrator constantly romanticizes Gatsby to reveal the conflict between illusions and reality that is ultimately reflected in the American Dream. Nick describes Gatsby’s personality as an “unbroken series of successful gestures” (2) and notes “there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life” (2) with an “extraordinary gift of hope” (2) and “a romantic readiness” (2). What Nick finds “gorgeous” in Gatsby is the same admiration that the author finds in the American Dream. By noticing these qualities, Nick, essentially, reveals his acknowledgment of the