The Great Gatsby Hope Analysis

“Without obsession, life is nothing.”(John Waters) Gatsby is obsessed with being successful in life ever since he was little. He was a poor little boy that worked up from nothing, he didn't do it legally though. He did some shady things to get to where he is now and he isnt very proud of it. So he has to lie about his past to if people ask him or stretch the truth for say. So without being obsessed Gatsby wouldn't be very far.

“ I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes- a fresh, green breast of the new world. ” ( 182 ) It is referring to when the Dutch first came to settle the Americas and how they hoped to become wealthy and high ranked, the beginning of the American dream. Gatsby builds his entire life around trying to get Daisy to be with him. He comes from being poor to being a rich man who throws absurd parties hoping that the girl of his dreams, Daisy, would wander in. He buys a house across the bay from her just to stay close to her. He sets his eyes on her

Hope can bring us joy and happiness or be our ultimate destruction. Since the beginning of The Great Gatsby, Gatsby has been forever looking and reaching for that which he thinks will make him happy. The green light is hope for Gatsby, hope that his past can be recaptured, his friendship with Nick will aid in his goal, and the faith he continually believes in that Daisy loves him. The green light is hope, it's Gatsby’s hope for the future.

Hope is a major factor in regards to The Great Gatsby much of what is going on is all bundled up into one maze of opportunities that leads each of the various characters into confusion especially Gatsby. Honesty, trust, liars, dedication, cheaters, lost, concerns all in one book. Concludes that “hope” is what triggers Gatsby to keep pushing forward to get Daisy. Green appears to be the color of hope in the Great Gatsby and it first appears when Gatsby stares across the bay towards a green light at the end of a dock. Gatsby exemplifies that his love for Daisy Buchanan’s was more than a sexual attraction; she had in all his eyes from the beauty to the innocence her in eyes to being extremely financially stable. The problem was that he felt the need to “be with her” even though he may not have been to her standards he was not going to give up on Daisy; he was a man full of passion and determined and destined for all his dreams to eventually come true.

Furthermore, the cause of Gatsby’s failure is the belief that he can repeat the past and convince Daisy to leave her easygoing lifestyle. He eventually even wants Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him, which is way too much of a task for the muddled Daisy. Daisy cries, “Oh, you want too much! I love you now-isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past” (Fitzgerald 132).

In a heated argument, Gatsby explodes on Tom saying, “‘Your wife doesn't love you," said Gatsby. "She's never loved you. She loves me”’ (238). Gatsby truly believes this statement to be true, but as you go through the novel you can see that Daisy also loves Tom. She's been with Tom for so long. A replacement Gatsby persay. Gatsby is so fogged up in the rest of his mind because he only loves Daisy he often makes rash decisions. Later in the novel as he was reasoning with Daisy about her relationship with Tom, she corrects his mindset letting him know that he’s not the only one. As said, “‘Oh, you want too much!” she cried to Gatsby. “I love you now—isn't that enough? I can't help what's past.” She began to sob helplessly. “I did love him once—but I loved you too.”’ (264). This is a blow to Gatsby as he feels it should only be him and Daisy. He is stunned and doesn’t know what to think. Sometimes it drives him crazy. Daisy and Gatsby believe they have everything set straight until the end of the story when disaster

One of the biggest themes in The Great Gatsby is hope. The hope that we can have a dream that’s within grasp if we just reach farther. The green light lies within all of us, the blinking reminder to believe in better things. The 1920’s inspired a popular postwar attitude for all Americans. While Frida Kahlo is a Mexican artist, no doubt she felt the freedom and hope in the air, and in turn surely Americans could identify their own surrealism within her works.

When his dream is alive for the little time it is he feels that dream become reality until it disappears for good. Through the repeated references to the green light, Fitzgerald creates a symbol that represents Gatsby’s dream of reliving the past to convey how dreams are just dreams and not reality. Gatsby's dream of the past was so close he could almost grasp it, but it was always just slipping from his fingertips. One night Gatsby was out on his dock and standing at the end of it “He stretched out his arms towards the dark water… and distinguished nothing except a single green light” (20 & 21). The green light represents Gatsby’s dream of reliving the past and when he is looking out all he can see is that light that he must grab.

When Gatsby discovered that Daisy had married someone else, Tom Buchanan, he went about doing whatever he deemed necessary to win her back. While Daisy truthfully stated that she loved both Gatsby and Tom equally. Gatsby was devastated and dumbstruck that he was not the only one she had loved for the past five years. Daisy cries, ¨Oh, you want too much! she cried to Gatsby. I Love you now- isn't that enough? I can't help what's past. She began to sob helplessly. I did love him once-but I loved you too¨(Fitzgerald 132). This reveals, Gatsby's selfish desire of putting Daisy in the spotlight to prove that she never loved Tom but him. The fact that he had driven Daisy into making this statement shows how Gatsby is head over heels for Daisy, and his want and desire is growing stronger each and every passing

“Oh, you want too much!” she cried to Gatsby, “I love you know－isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.” She began to sob helplessly.” (p.132) In an afternoon, Gatsby was invited to Tom and Daisy’ house. Their conversations are as dry as a chip, and Gatsby tries to encourage Daisy to tell Tom about their past and their relationship before she married him. In Gatsby’s opinion, Daisy now can leave Tom because she never love him and Gatsby, himself, and give anything she wants. As Gatsby convinces her to leave Tom, Daisy has the feeling of fluctuation between accepting him and refusing him. “I won’t stand this!” cried Daisy. “Oh, please let’s get out.” Daisy hesitates by Gatsby’s word. Gatsby, on the other hand, is willing to do anything as long as Daisy is happy… When they are back from the city, Daisy drives Gatsby’s yellow car and it hits Tom’s mistress. Gatsby, the single-minded man, becomes the scapegoat for the accident makes by Daisy and he still want to have Daisy back and live their own

Gatsby chases after Daisy even after knowing that she is already married to Tom. His memory of her and their time together fuels his dream to be with her once again. On the other hand Daisy is most concerned about her future and has already gotten over the past and Gatsby. “Oh, you want too much!” she cried to Gatsby.

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, hope is a major theme throughout the novel. Hope is the act of wanting or wishing for something to happen. Gatsby, for example, is hoping that Daisy will leave her husband to be with him, this eventually leads to his death. Despite the recurring nature of the theme of hope, it is not portrayed in a completely favorable light. In fact, there is a complex attitude towards the nature of hope as shown through the narrator Nick. He believes hope is a human instinct, but it is something undoubtedly pointless in the long run.

Can one person be responsible for ruining the lives of everyone and everything around them? Can a person destroy everything they touch and feel no remorse? Can money and riches be used as a fallback or second plan? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s character in the novel The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, single-handedly destroyed the lives of everyone around her. Daisy’s carelessness and need to maintain her ego is the main factor in the death and destruction of Jay Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson. Daisy is the worst character in the novel.

The Roaring 20s was a time like no other. Just after the first World War and the invention of the credit system, times were truly changing in America and people felt self-entitled to living careless lifestyles-despite the enactment of the Prohibition Act. Those who came from previously established families sat back and watched as groups of individuals raised from nothing to join the elite status of the rich and wasted their money on the most extravagant of things. With cars becoming more widespread in America during this time it allowed for people to take trips into the city where the lively nightlife masked some of the illegal activities that occurred between the city’s residents. Books during this timeframe took advantage of how quick you could get from one place to another and added vastly different locations to show how different places could be. The critically acclaimed novel, The Great Gatsby, is no exception. It contrasts the various personalities and lifestyles of the novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses location in The Great Gatsby to portray the various social positions, lifestyles and personalities of the 1920s.

Being an American can mean a wide variety of things to different people. Some people think being an American is someone who is free, others think being an American can be a positive or a negative, but every individual has personal beliefs about what it means to be an American. Nick, the narrator of the book The Great Gatsby, describes Gatsby's resourcefulness of movement as, “...so peculiarly American- that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work or rigid sitting in your and, even more with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games” (64). Nick thinks that Gatsby did not do any hard work and compares him to America, therefore Nick’s perception of Americans is that they do not work hard. While, Nick, seems has a preconceived notion of what it means to be an American, the entire novel that he narrates is F. Scott Fitzgerald revealing his views on what it means to be an American in the changing time periods through Nick. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the theme of the East and West as representations of a “New” America and an “Old” America. The characters Daisy, Tom, Jay Gatsby, and Nick are all used to represent a different negative aspect of the “New” America, such as being corrupted from money, lust, greed, and deceit, revealing how Fitzgerald believes America is making a turn for the worst in the changing times.