The Great Gatsby Quote Analysis

He has gone to great lengths to make himself appear as appealing to a girl who never proves herself to be worthy of sacrifice. Gatsby creates a facade for himself in order to appear as a man who- in his mind- would be worthy of Daisy’s affection.

she got older, she came to feed off of others validation. The youthful beauty, that others so longed for, became her downfall.

The plot of The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is driven by Jay Gatsby's

Gatsby does his very best to make his dream of daisy’s love for him come true. He does everything he can to be with daisy and make her happy. He throws parties and does pretty much anything just to keep her in his sight and within his reach. He does his best pursue his dream as her husband, and live the life of a married rich man.

Other than the fact Gatsby surrounded his life of Daisy, he also took risks to just reach the minimum for Daisy just to be with her. It all started when Daisy would not accept him into her life so, coincidentally he found the pioneer, Dan Cody. This man guided Gatsby to his excellence in new money. But his risky business of bootlegging could have started his mischievous ways and his lack of social skills. Without this business he would be living a safer life and have less caution but, his passion for Daisy strived him to be the man she always wanted. “a penniless young man [with] no real right to touch her hand,” Gatsby remains profoundly aware of his shortcomings, yet desire compels him to take what he can “ravenously” in the pursuit of his dream girl and romantic ideal (Fitzgerald 156). This was also an example of how the American Dream struck everyone during this time period. Money controlled everyone and everything especially love between two old lovers. “Both Gatsby and Daisy’s stories, for example, reveal how compelling the American dream has remained, despite the fact that the dream, as it has been given material life, has betrayed its original moral premises; Certainly both Gatsby and Daisy have been victimized by their disregard of the moral implications of their choices” (Resneck). This represents how both their choices caused a death and mainy his death. All in all “Both subscribed to the part of the dream which promised that security, status, and wealth would bring fulfillment. Neither recognized that their failing was that they pursued those goals at the expense of love, responsibility, and honesty.”

Gatsby cannot be classified as a truly moral person who exhibits goodness or correctness in his character and behaviour. Gatsby disputes most moral damage throughout the novel. Gatsby exhibits characteristics explaining the reason behind moral decay in society. Corruption and lies are responsible for the destruction of humanity. Gatsby’s whole life’s basically is a lie as he created a fake identity for himself. A whole new persona, Jay Gatsby is not even his real name. Gatsby

In the beginning of this novel everyone seems to know, or at least have heard, about Gatsby. He is talked about a lot and it is manly in a good way. Gatsby appears to be a very powerful person who also has a lot of respect from people. He has a very strange and kind of mysterious personality. For example when he has his party’s, usually on

     Gatsby lives a selfless life in order to attain his dream. His loyalty to his dream is Gatsby’s most noble characteristic. Although it seems to be too idealistic, Gatsby “[throws] himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that [drifts] his way.” (101) His entire existence revolves around his dream; recapturing Daisy’s heart, taking her away from Tom and living happily ever after in his mansion he built with her approval in mind.

Gatsby is a man who hangs on to his dreams and works toward achieveing them. When he meets Daisy again after five long years, he is ecstatic beyond belief. For Gatsby, being with Daisy is his dream come true and he experiences genuine happiness at the fact that he is with her. Gastby started out as a poor soldier, and, in order to impress Daisy and earn a position in society as highly ranked as hers, Gastby went through many different occupations, and dealt in illegal business to be able to have the vast amount of money he has accumulated. During the five years that he hasn't been able to see Daisy, he has made her into the perfect woman, making it impossible for Daisy to live up to his great expectations. In his mind, Gatsby has made Daisy

Gatsby feels like he is still close with Daisy as he once was. In reality, he isn't and doesn't know her as well as he thought. He thought she would leave Tom and tell him she never loved him, which is such a high expectation of Daisy. He comes to reality towards the end of the book before he was sadly murdered by

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms further . . . And one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald, 189.) Many know this to be one of the greatest endings to any novel due to its rich meaning. It relates to all aspects of one’s life from our personal life to a country's culture; we will move forward but occasionally go backwards in life because of past events. This classic closing-line by F. Scott Fitzgerald relates to the entire plot of The Great Gatsby, along with many features of real life.

He was rich and lived life very lavishly for his time. Despite all of this, Gatsby's own dreams did not come true. He was never able to be with Daisy the way he had always dreamed even with all the money a man could ever want. Gatsby was stuck in his own world of trying to make things perfect when they could never be. His ideas of a prosperous life with someone he loved was nothing more than just some dream that could never be accomplished.

Gatsby really wants to achieve the person he truly is. Before Gatsby creates such a false appearance of himself, he

“The Great Gatsby” is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City from spring to autumn of 1922. The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the “roaring” as the economy soared. At the same time, prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely

There is a huge irony in Gatsby’s character because when the reader starts to learn him he gets a feeling that he is an empty, flashy rich man. But as the story progresses he learns that Gatsby is driven by a pure, good reason - the love of his life Daisy. He values his friendship with Nick as he wanted to thank Nick for the date with Daisy. The way he proposed the business to Nick in my opinion is very innocent and he even does it in a shy way, what advocates for genuineness of his action. “Why, I though - why, look here, old sport, you don’t make much money, do yo?”(Fitzgerald 82) But what is even more ironic are the people that actually represent the moral decay. The first person is Daisy. In the beginning of the novel Daisy is revealed to the reader as a vulnerable and hurt sweet, young lady, towards which he can feel empathy. However, towards the end of the novel, after Gatsby has put his entire life to be with her, when she has to choose between Gatsby and Tom her choice false on the second due to the fact she found out who Gatsby was. She, instead of a man that purely loved her, chose stability and confidence in future even though Tom was cheating on her.(Fitzgerald 133-134) This is in fact also ironic as Daisy supposebly a woman that should hate perfidy, betrays Gatsby by choosing Tom. The second person is Nick. However, he doesn’t directly represent decadence, but he is a hypocrite. He claims that he “is inclined to reserve all judgement”(Fitzgerald 1), yet he does the opposite with every single person he meets. He had his negative opinions on Tom, yet he pretended to be his friend when he didn’t have any acquaintances in New York. He was judging Jordan for her dishonesty after she told him about the gold incident, yet he kept the affair with her going as he couldn’t physically resist her charm. He, what is very