The Gatsby 's Dream Of Receiving The Love And Affection From Daisy, By F. Scott Fitzgerald

[OPENING STATEMENT] The Great Gatsby does not clearly yield to either poem or prose causing it to be considered as a lyrical novel rather than the more common narrative. Poetic devices and techniques used by author F. Scott Fitzgerald are more commonly seen with poetry. Yet it is these techniques that give meaning to his work of fiction; how Fitzgerald states his ideas becomes more important than the ideas themselves. Poetic devices he uses are called litotes, which express a positive statement by using its opposite negatives. To say “the ice cream was not bad” would be an intentional understatement, when instead one could say the ice cream was “good.” Litotes are used for irony, which is “using words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.”1 Also commonly found throughout the novel, litotes are used for emphatic effect to benefit setting, plot, and character development.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, portrays the life of a man who is truly focused on one dream: to reclaim the love of his life. Fitzgerald illustrates the problem of being so single-minded through Gatsby’s ultimate demise. His slow evolution and reveal of the character of Gatsby leads to a devastating climax once his dream fails. Fitzgerald uses extended metaphor and sharp diction to depict Gatsby’s crumbling life in his last moments.

“All the bright precious things fade so fast and they don’t come back.” Daisy Buchanan's words which can be applied to the dreams that the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby all chased throughout the story. In The Great Gatsby, the story is told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, a veteran who dreams of making it rich on Wall Street. Everyone chases their own dreams; meanwhile surrounded by the iconic lifestyle that defined the 1920’s and the corrupt world that Fitzgerald depicts. Things take a dark turn when Tom Buchanan finds out about his wife’s affair with Gatsby. In The Great Gatsby the protagonist seeks out his dreams which are destroyed after he finally gets the chance to live them out. Fitzgerald’s use of setting, motifs, and symbolism clearly convey a theme of dream chasing particularly with the notoriously infamous Jay Gatsby.

Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald alludes to and questions many standard American beliefs. One of the most extreme cases that exemplifies his criticism is Gatsby’s fantastical description of what it would have been like to kiss Daisy when they had first known each other. “His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own,” Nick describes Gatsby’s vision, “He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God” (Fitzgerald 110). Entrenched in Gatsby’s vast imagination is the idea that Daisy is flawless and the epitome of his goals. However irrational Gatsby’s mind is, he realizes that once he actually kissed her his idealistic version of her will disappear and he will realize her imperfections. This is is a perfect metaphor for Fitzgerald’s stance towards the American Dream, the unrealistic and heroic expectations of class mobility and the clean cut ideas about hard work and are, for the most part, theoretical. Fitzgerald realizes that in many cases, such as Gatsby’s, pining after an ideal yields nothing because of the impossibility of perfection. Fitzgerald ends the novel by attempting to describe the emptiness of the promise of the American Dream by writing, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”(Fitzgerald 180). The promise of success is endlessly beat down by the “current” that all people have to fight against. It is romantic and arguably foolish to attempt to break the odds and the safest and easiest route will always be to go backwards. The apparent futility of exerting effort is only counteracted by the existentiality of life, if there is no reason to try then why does life exist. Heroic ideas such as the American Dream are doomed to

However, this fantasy could never truly work. A major reason for the collapse of Gatsby’s dream was because he could never admit to himself that his dream was going to fail. In his mind, his dream was so easy to be achieved that he set himself up for failure by ignoring all of the problems that always would stand in his way. Gatsby thought that by becoming rich and powerful in society, then Daisy would come crawling back to him. Gatsby attained his massive amounts of wealth by criminal means and Fitzgerald uses this to portray that not only is his money fake, so was his dream of being with Daisy.

When we think of Gatsby as a character, we would typically describe him as dedicated, cunning, and, more importantly, as a dreamer. This aspect of his character worked to his advantage in many situations, as shown when his dreams of being something more than a farmer led him to run away from his past life, and helped him gain his fortune. However, with some areas of his life, this proved to be a hindrance. While we all must be able to think creatively and think of new ideas, it is also important to know when to come down to earth. If Gatsby had learned his, he could have avoided his tragic fate. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s love for Daisy to show that we need to focus on the present.

You can’t change the past the outcome will be different each time. There’s no guarantee that the outcome is going to be what you want or like, because each time the circumstance have changed. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells of a man name Gatsby who came from a poor upbringing believed he was destined for greatness, and set out to obtain the American dream, and wanted to be acceptance by the rich society. While in the military he met Daisy Buchanan, who ended up symbolizing everything he wanted wealth, class, and being part of a high society. She was like gold to him, and the idea of her inspired him to pursue his dreams of having it all. I disagree with Gatsby who believed he could change the past, it’s okay to remember the past, but when it consumes the future then he is stuck hoping for something that has long passed him by, or no matter how hard he tries he cannot duplicate it.

Fitzgerald, too, presents the idea that pursuing one’s dream often entails putting oneself out there and risking failure through the character of Gatsby. Gatsby is blinded by his love for Daisy and his dream is “a single green light, minute and far way”. He “[stretches] out his arms”(20-21) to the light but never actually reaches it. Fitzgerald uses the words “minute” and “far way” to imply that many dreams are far away and unattainable. However, the dream seems very close before when Gatsby reunites with Daisy. Gatsby and Daisy ending up together finally seems plausible, yet “his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one”(93). The loss of his “enchanted objects” represents his sacrifices and what he’s given up to pursue Daisy and keep her interested. He even sends away all his servants in order to limit the gossip about Daisy. Gatsby ultimately dying and Daisy leaving with Tom sends the message from Fitzgerald that dreams often move farther and farther away from being attained and dreamers often die before ever reaching their dreams.

“Money can’t buy happiness” has been a common saying in today’s society but that doesn’t mean that people haven’t once tried it or thought about it. The Great Gatsby, is a prime example of how money can change people. James Gatz, also known as Jay Gatsby came from a poor family who lived in North Dakota. He ran away from his family in search to find some money. He decided to change his name to identify himself as someone new and wealthy. People may leave to search for money and for love but is it possible to buy love?

The world now revolves around money, holidays, money brings joy to many people, all material things. The worldś greed, money used to make people happy, to win people over. In The Great Gatsby, money; driving force for the majority of the characters actions; as a result, willing to lie and deceive in order to get what they want.

“Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality” - George Moore. The Great Gatsby is an american novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald that tracks a group of characters living on Long Island in the the summer of 1922. The book fixates on a wealthy young man named Jay Gatsby and his incredible chase for his long lost love, Mrs. Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby does, at a couple points in the book, have a hold of Daisy and her love, even though she has a husband and daughter on the the East side of the bay. While Gatsby has a grip of Daisy he seems to be living in a dream from 5 years ago, and he continues to illustrate his belief in rewriting the past. Sadly, the book does not end happily with Daisy in Gatsby’s arms. It

F. Scott Fitzgerald, an influential writer in the 1920’s writes the American classic novel The Great Gatsby, following the rekindling of a past love between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan through the perspective of Nick Carraway. Nick observes as the couple reconnects despite Daisy’s cheating husband, Tom Buchanan, and Gatsby’s obsessive manner. He then witnesses as Gatsby takes the blame for Daisy’s mistake of killing Myrtle Wilson and later Gatsby’s death. Myrtle Wilson a minor character in the novel who is also the mistress of Tom Buchanan, along with the person Daisy kills. Notably, Nick Carraway “feels a palpable repugnance for the Myrtle Wilsons of the world” (Voegeli). Set in 1922, Myrtle embodies the failure of the American Dream during the roaring twenties; furthermore, Myrtle and her husband George Wilson “preside over the valley of ashheaps” (Telgen), and George has a meager job working for Tom Buchanan. Because Fitzgerald develops the character Myrtle Wilson as a catalyst to Jay Gatsby’s death, a foil to Daisy Buchanan, and an archetype for temptation, he constructs a minor character with a significant presence.

Nick also helps Gatsby realize that no one truly cares but only care about his parties and of course, his money. Jay Gatsby is another main character in the story. The symbolism in the story is about his quest for Daisy, which later he is shot taking the blame Daisy, saving her life.

in TGG Fitzgerald creates Gatsby who wants relive the past "He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end” Gatsby, by changing his name, in a way creates himself anew, making his life more like that of a god. The religious illusion of daisy being compared to the "holy grail" and Gatsby's dream is like a nights quest, showing once again the dreams spiritual nature. Also, Gatsby after the car accident, looking over daisy from her yard, trying to protect her. His watch over her window is compared to a vigil, and while Nick talked to Gatsby that night, he sensed that his presence was ruining the "sacredness" of the moment. However, Gatsby's vigil was over nothing- daisy was never in her room that night - much like Gatsby’s dream is over a non-existent person. The daisy he met and fell in love with years ago is not the same person anymore, and as much as Gatsby thinks he can repeat the past, in the real world its proven to be impossible. On one level, Fitzgerald gives us Gatsby's dream as a spiritual quest, but on another level, we find out that this is another reason why his dream fails. Therefore, Fitzgerald

In The Great Gatsby the American Dream assumes a huge part. In it you can see what occurred it during the 1920s. The qualities have completely changed, as opposed to striving for achievement, they simply need to get as rich as they could get.so it is not astonishing that the new sort of American dream falls flat a few times, which F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts in his book. He demonstrates that individuals are not yet treated just as and that social segregation still exists, which is depicted in the scene where Tom and Wilson converse with one another in Chapter II. For the reader it is promptly clear that Tom sees himself as better than Wilson. We can see that when Wilson needs to exchange Tom 's old auto. Tom essentially goes ahead with his amusement with Wilson since he needs to proceed with his issue with Wilson 's wife, as a consequence of that he doesn 't give the auto to Wilson. Wilson’s fantasy is to acquire enough cash to move away with his wife and to begin another life some spot lovely. In any case his fantasy can simply get to be valid with the assistance of Tom. Despite the fact that, Wilson does not understand that Tom would not like to help him get a car whatsoever. His fantasy fizzles, when his wife is murdered, which is the fact of the matter were life gets to be silly to him. Another example of how the American dream is portrayed in The Great Gatsby is Mr. Wilson wife, Myrtle Wilson, her dream; she needs to turn into a young lady of the high society.