Main Theme Of The Great Gatsby

Gatsby is a character that seems to be moving towards a bright future, where Daisy a girl who loved Gatsby will be in the picture again. Again, Gatsby can’t help what happened in the past, and wants the future to be only filled with the nostalgic feeling of the past. Gatsby’s dream is Daisy, but that dream is a sort of after image of what Daisy really is. Nick comments in chapter five how Gatsby’s view of Daisy was only a, “colossal vitality of his illusion.” Gatsby isn’t in love with Daisy in the present, nor is he in love with the thought of creating new memories with Daisy as they live together. Gatsby has created an illusion of what he expects Daisy to be like. Ironically, in the same chapter Gatsby begins to lean his head back and break Nick’s clock when he sees Daisy sitting their. Gatsby tries to fix the clock with his, “trembling fingers, and set it back in place.” This scene symbolizes how Gatsby is trying to go back in time, or in this case fix the time that he has missed with Daisy in order to achieve his dream of being with Daisy. This dream of trying to go back to the past isn’t new, the dream of returning to a simpler time where things aren't as complicated is common with people remembering the nostalgic

This is noticeable when he is talking to Nick. He thinks he can fix everything which we see when he is talking to Nick, “ ‘ I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,’ Gatsby said, and nodding determinedly. ‘She’ll see.’ ”(110). At this point in the novel Gatsby sees how close his goal is, but he feels that the only way to get Daisy is to repeat the past and ignore the present, so she can feel the way she did about Gatsby before she met Tom. All the characters in this book will do anything to repeat the past, and do not see all the opportunities in front of them. Yet they are living in the roaring twenties, when everyone was trying to move forward with there lives. This idea from society is ironic to the characters in the book, because society is taking advantage of these opportunities of being wealthy, getting jobs, and living in the moment. Ironically Daisy, Gatsby, and Tom are living in the past, trying to take advantage of of opportunities that have already ended, specifically with Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship.

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

True love is seen through a relationship of two people. Love exists when two people give all their trust, loyalty, and support to one another. Now imagine finding out all of the love and loyalty was false? Betraying a loved one can make someone capable of things they didn’t even know they were capable of. Betrayal is the breaking of a trust that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals. In The Great Gatsby, characters pursue in the action of having an affair and the result of betraying their loved ones. In the book, The Great Gatsby, the concept of true love is portrayed in a way that negatively affects the characters.

Fitzgerald uses seasons and clocks to suggest those who attempt to move against the passage of time lose touch with reality. Seasons happen in a cycle, with each time change happening constantly. Clocks, on the other hand, keeps sequences of events running. Gatsby is trying to recreate the past to reconnect with Daisy. In chapter 5, Nick made a meeting for Gatsby and Daisy as an attempt to reconnect them. At first, the reconnection didn’t go so well, but afterward, as their relationship is getting better, the clock, “Took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers and set it back in place.”(Fitzgerald 91) At this point, Gatsby tried to reconnect with Daisy, but time did not allow that to happen as the clock fell.

Analysis: Fitzgerald uses ashes, fire and dust to represent the unachievable desire for the great American Dream. Fitzgerald uses the character George Wilson as a voice of many who live in the valley of ashes to get away from the filthy place, he said “i’ve been here too long. I want to get away”. This show through Wilson's hardest efforts to achieve his dreams he is still stuck in this dump. It speaks to the lost expectations and dreams of individuals who have neglected to satisfy the American Dream.

Gatsby’s motivation throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby, is his desire for Daisy. When Nick [Carroway] says to Gatsby, you can’t repeat the past, he cries out, “incredulously,” “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”, it

In The Great Gatsby, the theme is portrayed by symbolism. The book is about young Nick

‘I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,’ he said, nodding determinedly. ‘She’ll see,’” (Fitzgerald 117). This passage shows how much Gatsby wants to go back in time no matter if he has to force it onto Daisy or not. In the past he was in a happy and organized spot and then after Daisy he was confused and disordered. Gatsby wants to go back to the past to restart and try again.

To begin with, one major theme that continuously played a part throughout the entire book is desire. To many of the characters, it was the one urge that they could never overcome. One

Gatsby believes that he can pick up the relationship he had with Daisy five years ago like he never went away. Nick talks to Gatsby about time and how you can’t repeat that and Gatsby goes on to say, “Can’t repeat the past? He cried incredulously. Why of course you can! He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of the reach of his hand.

Theme of Carelessness In the Great Gatsby, the main characters were reckless with just about everything they did. The author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, had many themes in this novel. The two main themes were romance and tragedy, with carelessness between both. Fitzgerald’s book was similar to his life in some ways. For example, Gatsby was in the war just as Fitzgerald was.

Fitzgerald provides many themes in his book “The Great Gatsby” one of the main themes

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a story that has many different themes. Fitzgerald shows the themes that he uses through his character’s desires and actions. This novel has themes in it that we deal with in our everyday life. It has themes that deal with our personal lives and themes that deal with what’s right and what’s wrong. There are also themes that have to do with materialistic items that we deal desire on a daily basis. Fitzgerald focuses on the themes of corrupted love, immorality, and the American Dream in order to tell a story that is entertaining to his readers.

On first glance, The Great Gatsby is about a romance between Gatsby and Daisy. The true theme behind this wonderful novel is not merely romance, but is also a very skeptical view of the extinction of the American dream in the prosperous 19s. This loss of the American dream is shown by Fitzgerald's display of this decade as a morally deficient one. He shows its incredible decadence in Gatsby's lavish and ostentatious parties. This materialistic attitude toward life came from the disillusionment of the younger generation of the old Victorian values. Also, with Prohibition in effect, illegal bootlegging practices made for yet another way for Americans to fall down the path of