The Great Gatsby Analysis

In the novel, Daisy married Tom while Gatsby was still in the war. Gatsby wrote to Daisy on her wedding day saying to wait for him, of course she ended up marrying Tom. Although, Gatsby was still optimistic about his relationship, or rather future relationship, with Daisy. Throwing all these parties was him trying to get Daisy to come and see him and how great he is doing with his new found wealth. Gatsby was always persistent in his fantasy of him and Daisy marrying each other in the end. Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!” (Fitzgerald 110). This quote from the novel shows that Gatsby always had hope that he and Daisy would be together forever the moment she saw him again and that everything would be the same just like when they first met and fell in

The rekindling of this epic “love” tale begins when Gatsby buys a house directly across the bay from Daisy, her husband, and child. They do not know it yet, but Jay certainly does. Every night he walks outside and stares through the fog at the green light on Daisy’s dock. Some would consider these gestures endearing and romantic, but with all of that left aside it still seems as if he is stalking her. He is always searching for her everywhere he goes and is intrigued by the mentioning of her name. She is married to Tom Buchanan, a descent from old money, and is living quite lavishly. She hardly remembers Gatsby even exists until Jordan Baker mentions him at dinner. When Daisy hears Jay’s name a sudden bolt goes through her and she flooded with memories of the past. Everyone at dinner can see how this has affected her, including her husband. Nick, who is unaware of the situation, is surprised at what he has seen.

Who Jay Gatsby truly loved wasn’t the real Daisy Buchanan but instead the Daisy Fay in the past he imagined of after haven’t seeing her for five years. The exciting re-encounter between Jay and Daisy occurred when Nick Caraway invited Daisy alone to tea, and Gatsby took the two around his mansion. Yet, by the end of the meet, Nick the narrator described that “I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a

As Daisy simply advanced in her life, little did she know that James Gatz would leap into social heights and become Jay Gatsby so soon. James Gatz was a young poor boy, who thought he was never good enough for Daisy. Gatsby has spent the past few years prospering wealth, building a mansion; minutes away from Daisy, just to compensate for what he didn't have before.He devotes his entire life into moulding himself to be the man that Daisy desires and “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before [him].” After becoming the Great Gatsby, he hopes that eventually one day Daisy will find her way back to him. Gatsby’s love for Daisy has grown even fonder and after finally meeting her she doesn't satisfy his standards anymore, “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams-not through her

“In his blue gardens men and women came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars” (Fitzgerald 39). In his character, his relationships, and his gatherings, Jay Gatsby epitomized the illusion of a perfect romance. When Gatsby and Daisy met in 1917, he was searching for money, but ended up profoundly falling in love with her. “[H]e set out for gold and stumbled upon a dream” (Ornstein 37). Only a few weeks after meeting one another, Gatsby had to leave for war, which led to a separation between the two for nearly five years. As “war-torn lovers” Gatsby and Daisy reach the quintessential ideal of archetypical romance. When Gatsby returned from the war, his goal was to rekindle the relationship he once had with Daisy. In order to do this, he believed he would have to work hard to gain new wealth and a new persona. “Jay Gatsby loses his life even though he makes his millions because they are not the kind of safe, respectable money that echoes in Daisy’s lovely voice” (Ornstein 36). Gatsby then meets Daisy’s cousin, Nick Carraway, who helps to reunite the pair. Finally being brought together after years of separation, Gatsby stops throwing the extravagant parties at his home, and “to preserve [Daisy’s] reputation, [he] empties his mansion of lights and servants” (Ornstein 37). Subsequent to their reconciliation, Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s husband, begins to reveal sordid information about Gatsby’s career which causes Daisy to

James Gatz/Jay Gatsby is obsessed with fulfilling his lifelong American Dream. His dream includes being rich, having a big house and the full devotion of Daisy Buchanan. He already has the money and the house so the last thing he has to do is to recapture the love of Daisy. In Gatsby’s words, “She was the first nice girl he had ever known.” “Many men already loved her so it increased her value in Gatsby’s eyes.” (Fitzgerald 148-149). He was so incredibly fixated on his American Dream that he always knew he was going to “capture” Daisy and her affection and make her his wife. Even the fact that men had already fell in love with her it wouldn't stop him from reaching his

“‘Jay… You can’t repeat the past.’ Gatsby wheeled around… ‘Can’t repeat the past?’ ‘No.’ ‘Why of course you can.’”(Luhrmann). The Great Gatsby greatly deals with people trying to relive past relationships and parts of their lives. This why a common theme for the Great Gatsby is that you can’t repeat the past. This is shown when Gatsby dies trying to repeat the past and return to a relationship and feelings that had been gone for 5 years, “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. ”(Fitzgerald 110). The movie better displays the theme that you can’t relive the past because of its style, the symbolism, and the point of view taken in the movie.

Jay Gatsby is portrayed as a man who has many admirers, which may lead people to believe that he is an admirable character of a “Great American Novel”. However, if taken into deeper account, Gatsby is a very isolated man without a family. In the past, Gatsby and Daisy had a romantic alteration, however, Gatsby had to leave for the war and was not financially stable. When Gatsby comes back from the war with great wealth, Gatsby is determined to restore the relationship they once had. Daisy, in the end,

Jay Gatsby is introduced to the readers as an enigmatic yet prominent gentleman. He is almost divine to the population that attend his lavish parties. The truth of this young man is not revealed until the narrator, Nick Carraway, meets Gatsby. Gatsby is then seen as a lovestick fool pursuing his love for the married Daisy Buchanan. “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just cross the bay” (78 Fitzgerald) expresses

From the start of Gatsby’s years he has always been a hardworking man. When he was younger things for him did not always go his way, but as his life went on it got better. He was very mysterious in the way that he would come and go, as well as people thinking that he may or may not be alive. Gatsby tends to not make a lot of appearances and when he does no one actually knows it’s him. “Nick Carraway’s pronouncement, near the start of the novel, that “Gatsby turned out all right at the end” (Fitzgerald 1999, 6). Jay Gatsby, a figure marked by failure and shadowed by death throughout most of the novel, nevertheless achieves a form of “greatness” in the final paragraphs of his story” (Will). Even though Gatsby struggled in the beginning of his life he was able to pick himself up and achieve “greatness” by the end. He was not always as wealthy as he is now though, and if he was back then, then things with daisy would be different. Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy is indescribable. He would do anything to get her into his

The affection that Gatsby had for Daisy Buchanan made him thirst for the affluent that he believed would earn her love back. “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that 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 117). Gatsby wanted to gain the love of Daisy, trying to go back to the position they once were before he was enlisted into the war. When Jay and Daisy met time stood still while he was falling in love with her, or at least the idea of her. After they had separated nothing seemed to be perfect with Gatsby goes off to serve in the war and Daisy meeting Tom, almost calling off her wedding for Gatsby. “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can. I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before” (Fitzgerald 116-7). Jay tells Nick that just because Daisy loves someone else, Tom, that does not imply they cannot love each other once more, attempting to go back to the stage where

In Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is introduced as a newly prosperous man in hope to rekindle an old flame with his past love Daisy Buchanan. Despite the fact that Daisy has organized a life without Gatsby, a mother of a daughter also married to Tom Buchanan, Gatsby continues to attempt to revive their previous connection for one another. Gatsby completely alters his lifestyle by devoting every minute to expanding his wealth to gain Daisy’s satisfaction. Eventually Gatsby purchases a mansion in West Egg of Long Island, coincidentally right across the bay from Daisy and her family. Gatsby throws ostentatious parties weekly to lure Daisy into crossing paths with him once again. Immediately after meeting Daisy, he

Like Jane, Jay Gatsby lacks the equality needed to rekindle a relationship with the love of his life. However, unlike Jane, Gatsby is already rich and is longing for a true identity with which he can become a prominent figure in society. Gatsby was a Lieutenant stationed at the base near Daisy's home when they started dating and fell in love. Gatsby lied to Daisy and "let her believe that he was a person from much the same strata as herself" (Fitzgerald 156). He told her that he was a wealthy and prestigious man who can take care of her. Gatsby was soon called off to the war and Daisy promised to wait for him. She ends up marrying Tom Buchanan who has a solid social position and the approval of her parents. Since then, Daisy has moved on with her life with Tom in East Egg, but Gatsby's obsession with her has only grown. Nick learns of Gatsby's fixation when Jordan tells him that "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay" (Fitzgerald 83). His fixation with her has caused him to completely change his life to try to be near her. Like Jane Eyre, Gatsby longs for a position of equality with his loved one. When Gatsby was young, he worked on a yacht owned by a wealthy man named Dan Cody. Gatsby immediately fell in love with wealth and luxury, and when Cody died, he

Now, Tom Buchanan knows that Gatsby and Daisy are having a love affair, realizing that he too has made a bad decision having an affair with Myrtle Wilson. The decision of Gatsby to love a married woman reflects the opposition of divorcing in the 1920s, being a taboo topic back then. So, Fitzgerald is using Gatsby’s relationship as Daisy to prove that a divorce can happen, despite strong hatred towards it. At the end of the story, Jay Gatsby pays the ultimate price for choosing to fall in love with a married woman. However, a misunderstanding occurred which led to his death because he drove the car that killed Myrtle Wilson. However, Mr. Wilson knew that his wife was having an affair, but he did not know who she was having it with, so he assumed she had the affair with Gatsby, so he decided to shoot Gatsby and then “the touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of transit, a thin red circle in the water” (Fitzgerald 162). So, Gatsby died as a result of his bad decisions and he could have easily prevented it by falling in love with a single woman. However, Gatsby felt a special connection with Daisy that she had once felt in Louisville, but she eventually went back to her husband, Tom, and moved away so that she could forget Gatsby. In “The Great Gatsby” Jay Gatsby decides to love a woman that is married, which

(MAJOR) Jay Gatsby- The protagonist of the novel. While in the army, he falls in love with Daisy Fay, the typical “golden girl.” He spends the majority of his life trying to win Daisy’s love and affection. In order to win her love, he gains a fortune, earned from bootlegging and builds a huge mansion across the bay from the home of Daisy and her husband. He convinces Nick, Daisy’s cousin, and new neighbor, to bring the two of them together, and for awhile Gatsby and Daisy have an affair. Daisy only uses Gatsby to get a break from the bored lifestyle she lives since living with Tom. In the end, he is shot by Wilson, who believes that Gatsby was having an affair with his wife (Tom’s mistress) and was responsible for her accidental death.