The Great Gatsby: A Short Story

“I trip a lot. I’m clumsy.” I lie. And even though Fay doesn’t question in, he looks suspicious. We arrive at the building.

During the beginning half of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, one of the main characters, Jay Gatsby (referred to simply as Gatsby), meets with his past lover Daisy Buchanan, whom he has not seen for nearly five years. While Daisy is now married, Gatsby has never stopped thinking about her and has orchestrated this meeting to see if they still have chemistry. The meeting place is the home of the narrator Nick, and the scene is described in his point of view. The reunion gets off to a bumpy start- Daisy being shocked at seeing the face of the man she had let go, and Gatsby wracked with nerves. These nerves coincide with the pouring rain outside. However, by the end of the passage, the tension had eased as well as the rain. Gatsby,

Okay, so back to the party. I decided to that the faster I talked to Gatsby the better so I went to go find him. I thought the best place to start was out in the garden where I thought he would be conversing with his guests. I walked to the garden avoiding eye contact and feigned conversations with the people around me. As I searched the garden for Gatsby, I quietly listened for all the bits of gossip the partygoers were discussing. Probably the most interesting story was that Gatsby was having an affair with a married woman. The couple believed that the woman was none other than Miss Baker. I knew this rumour wasn’t completely true. Gatsby was indeed having an affair with someone but she wasn’t married and she wasn’t Miss Baker. In fact, you know this person quite well but, I won’t tell you who it is so don’t even think of asking me.

“The Great Gatsby” follows Nick’s perspective on Jay Gatsby’s desperate attempt to get to be with his only love, and only desire in life, Daisy Buchanan. Life has not been kind to Gatsby as he worked his way up the social ladder, the only thing keeping him together being the obsessive need to get Daisy to leave all else to be with him. Gatsby wrote many letters to Daisy, most of which he never sent, both before and after he found out she married another man. I was most eager to read these letters, so this will be what I think may have been written in one of Gatsby’s many un-sent letters to Daisy – after he found out that she had married another man. To the best of my ability I will mimic the language Gatsby used when talking to and about Daisy. With this I hope to achieve that desperate and delusional tone of voice that he has.

A moment later a beautiful young woman wearing a white nurse’s outfit came into the room. “Excuses me, Mr. Gatsby,” she said in a calm, elegant voice “it is time to take your walk.” “Yes of course,” Gatsby said with a tone of excitement I had never heard before. “Oh, yes Nick, this is Miss Johnson the nurse in charge of my recovery,” he said happily. “Please, Mr. Gatsby,” she said shyly “call me Sarah” she turns and smiles at me “you too, you can call me Sarah”.

Jordan concludes her recollection of Daisy and Gatsby’s past by stating Gatsby’s motivations behind his large parties: “‘I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties some night,’ went on Jordan, ‘but she never did. Then he started asking people casually if they knew her, and I was the first one he found,’” (84). Gatsby is well aware that he cannot outright go and see Daisy because of her marriage to Tom, but he also does not want to “do anything out of the way,” (84). He takes a passive approach in all of his attempts to find Daisy. She becomes a motivating factor that drove him to obtain his wealth and position in society. Therefore, she also becomes more of an idea rather than a flawed human, and Gatsby is afraid to meet her again. Overall, Gatsby’s actions reflect that he sees Daisy as his final objective instead of the love of his life.

“I'm sorry to hear that, I hope you find a way to tell him…” The woman trails off. “I was here to see off my fiancé Andy Landsell.” He added in a more cheerful tone, although a look of sadness was present in her eyes.

His sole objective in life is to win back Daisy no matter what risks he had to take. When Gatsby finally meets Daisy after a long five years, Gatsby knows that “there must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion”(95). Even though Gatsby can see that Daisy was not exactly what he had hoped for, Daisy herself is still “his dream.” To Gatsby, it did not matter who Daisy actually was or what she looked like. Gatsby’s devotion shows that his goal in life is to be with Daisy once again. However, in order to fulfill a dream, it is insufficient to solely define it; hope is required as well. Hope is the emotion that starts every dream and aspiration, and drives us to continue to believe that we can achieve our dreams. Gatsby in this case has always been hopeful in pursuing his dream of reuniting with Daisy. The reason Gatsby strived to be wealthy and changed his own name was all because of Daisy. Nick, the narrator in the story, realizes the incredulous amount of hope that Gatsby has, and describes Gatsby as if “there was something gorgeous about him… some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life… an extraordinary gift for hope… it is what preyed on Gatsby” (2). Gatsby’s

The days of their fairytale relationship comes to a rude and unexplainable end that leaves one of these love birds in a tough situation of having a lonely life. The day before a special day for any man or woman would love to have in their life-time,for the lovely Daisy Buchanan her wedding, She’s holding in her hand a letter from Gatsby and with a wine glass in the other preparing to enter her doomsday . The appearance of The Great Gatsby has vanished out of the lovely Jordan Baker’s life when she need and wanted him the most.

GATSBY (slightly excited): Ah, so you’ve heard of my peculiar events? They do get quite grand, but I strive to be a proper host, so I allow my guests to indulge before me. I eat by my

“Daisy went to Gatsby’s house late in the night, saying she had changed her mind, that she wanted to be with him. And then Tom showed up... He followed her…” She started

In his novel, The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald implies that life hurts and disappoints in order to make people stronger. Fitzgerald, as all great artists, writes of his experiences in order to give the story a relatable, human touch.

".....and here's the two boys who saved us all......" She was saying, and Charlie waves at the camera. I smile, but my arms too weak to even wave.

Fitzgerald’s description of Gatsby and Daisy as they revel in each other’s presences utilizes vivid imagery and metaphors to illustrate the all-consuming love and faith that Gatsby has in his dream. Gatsby himself is overcome with emotion, when Daisy says something to him he turns “toward her with a rush of emotion,” captivated by her very presence. The two are so very enamored by each other that they forget the others in their vicinity, though Daisy holds her hand out to her cousin, Gatsby “[doesn’t] know [Nick] now at all.” They are two people “possesed by intense life”, so caught up in the moment and in each other that the rest of the world disappears during the brief moments that they are together. The trance that they are in is comparable

I turn back around and finish my work, before I announced that I am, I can still feel Morty looking at me.