The Great Gatsby By F. Fitzgerald

Even though Jay Gatsby has a plethora of money, he still isn’t satisfied. He only wants Daisy to make himself actually blithe. The light at the end of Daisy’s dock is green; which represents things of desire that are potentially unattainable, Daisy is the only thing that will make Gatsby happy. “...I could have sworn he [Gatsby] was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward- and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far way, that might have been at the end of a dock.” (21) Gatsby’s mansion, private dock, boat, pool, and other gaudy items are all within his reach to set his focus on, but he chooses a small green light at the end of

Do 
obstacles 
in someone’s 
life
 change 
their 
passions?
 If 
something
 
 unexpected 
occurs,
 does 
one 
turn 
his
 or 
her 
back
 on 
all
 that 
has 
been 
worked 
for? 
In
 an
 American
 society,
 there
 is
 an
 idea
 of
 a
 dream.
 Most
 people
 have
 dreams
 that
 differ 
from 
one
 another. 
Dreams
 are 
not 
limited 
only 
to 
society. 
Countless 
numbers
 of
 times
 in
 American
 literature,
 there
 are
 moments
 when
 an
 obstacle
 slows
 or
 possibly
 halts
 progression.
 Dreams
 can
 also
 be
 found
 in
 American
 literature;
 however,
 like
 the
 reality
 of
 society,
 barriers
 can
 be
 a
 component
 of
 having
 aspirations.
 Barriers
 create
 obstacles,
 whether
 emotional
 or
 physical,
 that
 make
 achieving 
a
 dream 
difficult 
or
 even 
appear 
to 
be 
impossible. 
In 
American 
literature
 dreams 
seem 
to 
be 
unattainable 
because 
of 
barriers.

Individuals who approach life with an optimistic mindset generally have their goals established as their main priority. Driven by ambition, they are determined to fulfill their desires; without reluctance. These strong-minded individuals refuse to be influenced by negative reinforcements, and rely on hope in order to achieve their dreams. As a man of persistence, the wealthy Jay Gatsby continuously strives to reclaim the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan. Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay makes a substantial amount of effort to impress, and persuade Daisy to be reacquainted once again. Providing that, F. Scott Fitzgerald associates Daisy as Gatsby’s green light. Fitzgerald represents the green light in Gatsby’s life as a significant role to The Great Gatsby. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby’s green light symbolizes his undying passion for an idealistic goal that he aspires to accomplish; his green light indicates how he uses his wealth in order to acquire his desire, it also represents his American Dream.

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, takesplace in the 1920's a time when people were wild and prohibition was a thing of the past. Where a love affairintertwines the characters and leads to three tragic deaths. In the story, Gatsby and Tom's money is very important because it is what builds their characters’ personalities. For instance new money compared to the old. Where new money lives uneducated about the importance of “keeping rich”. Whereas old money has learned the rules of the rich life throughout their lives. If the source of their money’s whereabouts was unknown the story would not come together. Therefore the book would not makesense. Tom and Gatsby's money is important because money is their motivation to win the heart of Daisy. While money helps Tom give her security; Gatsby’s offers her a life of unknown and a life of what could have been. Even though they share different interests with their money they also have some similarities.

In The Great Gatsby, Scott F. Fitzgerald explores the amourous institutions of marriage (Tom and Daisy Buchanan), dating (Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker), and affairs (Tom and Myrtle Wilson) only to come to the conclusion that true love is unattainable. Gaps in gender, personal disposition, and social standing prevent these relationships from reaching their full potential. By comparing and contrasting these three different kinds of relationships with each other, Fitzgerald rejects the idea of true love and proves that without a stable foundation any relationship is destined to fail.

What does the word disillusion really mean? The word illusion can have several different meanings, within the same category. The main definition is to be in a deceived state or to see an optical illusion from a faulty perception (of reality). The prefix “dis” means “opposite of,” “apart,” or something negative. So if one is disillusive, does that mean one will always see reality through a clear leans? According to dictionary.com, the word disillusion means, “to free from or deprive of illusion.” Another definition is that one’s largest dream could be shattered into a million pieces, and is broken beyond repair. Integrating this meaning, one may ask, “is it good to be disillusive? Or is it bad?” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the astonishing book called The Great Gatsby in the 1920s, it maybe perhaps one of the greatest American novels ever written today. When reading this wonderful book, in class and on my own, I found that each character had confronted disillusion at some point. Their individual disillusion kept them in a fantasy world until the truth was revealed and they were left with a choice to continue the fantasy in their own mind or face reality. Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, Jordan Baker, and of course Jay Gatsby, all experience disillusion in different ways through out the book.

In our society today we all identify as unique individuals with different dream,perspectives,personalities, etc. But how are characters in books identities represented like ours? Usually authors that produce characters use character development which is the building of a character 's personality,,attitude,society, or maybe they way they were raised or born. All these key factors play a role is how a character acts around people in the book, how he sees the world, and also his/her attitude toward other charters.

In the novel The Great Gatsby, Nick develops throughout the story in ways such as finding himself a lover and being Gatsby’s right hand man when it comes to winning the heart of an old lover, Daisy, who is married to Nick’s long time colleague, Tom. Nick develops an insight into the elite lifestyles of those who reside in West Egg and later decides for himself that he soon will be lost in the hectic lives of those around him due to the strong ideas of money and pleasure being the only two things that brought excitement into the lives of the upper class as where Nick was someone who had strong morals and a purpose more than getting drunk and having affairs with women who wouldn’t matter then next morning. Fitzgerald portrays Nick Carroway (the author) as “unreliable and impartial. Also the author focuses on Nick’s lengthy opinions however he never expresses to anyone what his views are.”

An inability to be at peace with oneself is a defining connection between the central characters of The Great Gatsby, a timeless classic written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, set in a hedonistic summer of 1922 America, and Death of a Salesman, written by American playwright Arthur Miller set in 1949 America. The characterisation of both Willy and Gatsby illustrate that they have similarities, in a way that are considered destitute, with imperfect ethical conduct. To a certain extent both protagonists have the right intentions; Gatsby wants to grasp at his quest for love, and Willy is fixated on the idea of accumulating wealth to provide a rich lifestyle for his family, however even if they have the right intentions at heart, they ensue them in the wrong way. They base their lives around a substantial objective, and do not stop to realise that their actions cause detriment to their relationships with others, and detriment to themselves, as they continue to delude their minds with the wrong ideals and morals. In addition both protagonists are considered to be morally flawed, however it is difficult to label Willy Loman and Jay Gatsby as so. They are not truly immoral, instead purely motivated by the wrong values. Such values consist of a veracious obsession with the American Dream, their misguided, delusional outlook on life, and the futile pursuit of materialism, which as a result, costs both Willy and Gatsby idyllic relationships. Arthur Miller and F. Scott Fitzgerald emphasise

Throughout Daisy’s life she has only ever known money. To Daisy money equals happiness and she doesn’t know what love truly is. In a heated argument between Tom and Gatsby over Daisy, she finds out who Gatsby really is. Tom reveals that he has an investigation on Gatsby and he knows what business he’s in, “bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here…and sold grain alcohol over the counter”,(Fitzgerald 133). Gatsby was penniless when he first met Daisy and he knew to win her heart he needs money.

Have you ever noticed something, that at the time did not seem very important, but later turned out to be something of importance? This can be known as a symbol! Symbolism can be found all over the place in the book, The Great Gatsby, and is a huge part of the book’s plot and characters. Some of these symbols are more important to the story than others, but all of them are a piece to the puzzle of the laudable book, The Great Gatsby. These symbols come in many different ways, and the book uses colors to show these important pieces. The book uses many different colors to show symbolism, and each color has its own effect on the plot. Some of these colors are yellow, blue, and green. These three colors or symbols are the three most important symbols the story has to offer. This is because they have the most effect on the story, and they also are brought up more than any other colors. In conclusion, these colors are very important to the story and without them, it wouldn't be as good as it is.

"The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It 's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now" - J. G. Ballard

The ideals of life in America during the 1920’s involved being part of the highest social class and having an enormous amount of money. It is all Gatsby cared for, and the symbol of those ideals of life in America is Daisy. Wealth relates to that because it is what people strived for and what motivated them to do anything to achieve those ideals. It is suggested that Gatsby gained his money illegally, but a “less risky path would have meant certain failure” (Frank). Gatsby does not seem to care about how he gained his wealth and Daisy’s status, but he is determined to do so because those were the ideals at the time.

A perfect world may be where there is money, a perfect, house, a wonderful spouse, beautiful and smart kids. The perfect lifestyle may only include having a job you’ve always wanted, or something simple as retaining the freedom given when entering the country. Ellen Truax was someone who saw the way people envisioned the American Dream, and those who couldn’t achieve it. She proposed an act called DREAM Act, which stands for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors. By this proposal she sought to give those who have been through tragic events such as deportation, a change to recreate themselves, a chance to give themselves a better life; the American Dream. (Stockwell, Diane, trans. Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation’s Fight For Their American Dream.” Publisher Weekly (2014): 59-60. Literary Reference Center. Web. 8 Apr. 2015.)

From tantalizing towers to famished families, the American Dream creates havoc wherever it reaps, whomever resides on top fears only of their class rather than the devastating pecuniary finances descending on the proletariat populous. However, this horrendous feat may only be achieved at the heavy expense of the many rather than the few, if at all. As evident as the success of those who have claimed to achieve “the American Dream” may reveal itself to be, can the general public truly believe a dream so lavished and prestigious to be concluded given the basis of the dream to claim more and more materialistic things. The answer is no, obviously not, a person would go mad before claiming as much as they so desired and that is deemed rightfully so. Furthermore, the American Dream only leads to disillusionment and a false sense of morality coupled with the corruption of those too ignorant to see themselves become blind. The American Dream cannot be achieved, as portrayed in the two texts “The Great Gatsby” (Scott F. Fitzgerald), and the acclaimed poem “19” (W. H. Auden), as proven by the use of green light, the role of religion and strong imagery in society and analysis of the lives of those both lavished alongside those who possess only their pity for one’s self.