The Great Gatsby Really Great Analysis

Gatsby’s claim to love Daisy is nothing more than wanting to complete his collection of the grand prize being a trophy wife. It became apparent to Nick that Gatsby wanted to repeat the past in order to win the award of a perfect woman. While reminiscing, Nick realizes Gatsby’s desire was that, “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.’ After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken. One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house- just as if it were five years ago” (Fitzgerald 109). Gatsby’s relentless need to ‘get the girl’ blinds his ability to comprehend Daisy’s feelings of the situation. His want to shatter the Buchanan’s marriage

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby was born into a life of poverty and as he grew up he became more aware of the possibility of a better life. He created fantasies that he was too good for his modest life and that his parents weren’t his own. When he met Daisy, a pretty upper class girl, his life revolved around her and he became obsessed with her carefree lifestyle. Gatsby’s desire to become good enough for Daisy and her parents is what motivates him to become a wealthy, immoral person who is perceived as being sophisticated.

Purposely and thoughtfully concluded, the author encompasses a comprehensive reunion between Daisy & Gatsby to highlight their individual character traits; to portray Daisy as addled with love & materialistic, and Gatsby as a wistful and foolish young man. The reunion aids in fulfilling the missing element, whose lack of presence left mystery to the reasoning behind Gatsby’s actions and purposes. By shining a light on his underlying goal to ultimately captivate Daisy’s ardor, he endeavors to rekindle their idyllic love belonging to years prior. Gatsby desperately grasps onto the past, not “once ceas[ing]” his “looking at Daisy” while he attempts to quickly bind the severed ties in their relationship.

“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

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, the reader is consumed in the time of the roaring 1920’s with a taste of true love sprinkled in the novel. The main character, Jay Gatsby, fell in love with Daisy Buchanan, but was not able to marry her because he did not have the money, and he went away for the war. When he got back Gatsby was determined to win Daisy back from her husband Tom. For five years Gatsby buys lavish items and throws posh parties to try and catch Daisy’s eye. Although some readers may believe that he is a hopeless romantic and he is in love with her, the fact that he spends all this time doing things to try and get her back implies that he is obsessed with her.

Daisy, a lovely young former-debutante, is a beautiful, wealthy woman who enjoys many aspects of the flapper lifestyle. Her exotic, free, charming manner are what gained her an advantageous marriage to a millionaire – and are also what caused her to be the object of Jay Gatsby’s secret, long-lasting love and admiration. In her, Gatsby believes he will find everything he has longed for in his life – everything that will bring him satisfaction and happiness. Once they finally meet again – and even carry on an adulterous relationship without her husband’s knowledge – Gatsby believes he has finally attained his goal. But, as their relationship goes on, he begins to realize that she is not the ideal, fulfilling lover he imagined; rather, that she is the same as all the other women in his circles – petty, frivolous, and depthless, who’s glittering outward beauty hides a shallow, self-seeking spirit.

Richard M. Devos once said “Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.” In The Great Gatsby the characters that do not come from a high social class are willing to do anything to reach a higher social standing. They are willing to give up many aspects of their lives in order to achieve the wealth and power that they want. They believe that the money they gain will enable them to have happiness and love.

The rumours that swirl around Gatsby shows he has become so rich and mysterious that he appears almost hollow, this is evident in Chapter 3 when rumours are circulating around his party about his background. “Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.” Yet, everyone seems to claim they know something about Gatsby; people used Gatsby for his extravagant parties, and most of his “new money” guests don’t even know him. This is not an admirable lifestyle because Gatsby continues to be a man who barely seems to exist beyond the rumours about him.

Returning back to Gatsby, the character of Daisy Buchanan, ironically the love interest of Jay Gatsby and the main driving force for his seeking friendship with the main character, plays greatly on struggling to maintain her life’s own safety. Differing from Gatsby, Mrs. Buchanan grew up affluent and well off with a myriad of suitors waiting for her. Fate pushed her to Jay Gatsby, and the two were in love built on a lie due to Gatsby suggesting he was already wealthy to begin with. Once war had come, and called for Gatsby, Daisy was left alone to wait for him and live her life with someone she was truly infatuated with. However, in fear of losing her comfy and familiar lifestyle or growing past a suitable age for marriage while waiting for her beloved, she decided that the idea of marrying herself off to another man in order to keep a secure life within in her grasps was more appealing and prosperous for her in the long run. For those who hold the prospect of love close to their hearts or minds, her decisions are especially egregious. For Daisy, love was not worth having if not also living the way she was already accustomed to. For the sense of safety in life took priority over happiness in love; for some, a good life and true love cannot exist on the same field- at least, not without a battle

In the book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick calls Jay Gatsby “great” because that is how Nick and a bunch of other people see him. Everyone seems to know the name Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby lives a life that about anyone would want to live in, because he has a lot of money, and before his death wins back the girl of his dreams. But there are also some ways where Gatsby is not so “great.”

Being great is something that a lot of people have different perspectives on. Perhaps to some people a person who is great is someone who cares about the wellbeing of others and always has hope. There are many different key points in the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald that make Jay Gatsby great. Gatsby is a poor man who had nothing to offer to Daisy, this woman that he had fell in love with. Ever since Gatsby has been trying to work his way up to win Daisy back by doing everything in his power to be wealthy. Gatsby is deserving of the title “Great” because of his optimism and ambitions to grow in his wealth.

After the war, Gatsby’s only goal was to posses enough wealth to bring Daisy back. He acquired millions of dollars from businesses he did. “Gatsby bough this house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (78). His love for Daisy was the only thing that made him the man he was. He was intelligent, rich and even famous, all because of her. He threw big parties were many celebrities went and were thousands of dollars were spent in liquor and food just to call Daisy’s attention. “I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night…” (79), recalled Jordan, Gatsby’s friend, one night. All that Gatsby possessed was only and exclusively to show Daisy he could give her the life she wanted.

Finally, Jay Gatsby’s delusions draws more pity for him. Daisy comes from a rich family and chances of her ending up with Gatsby, a poor soldier, is totally unrealistic. Furthermore Gatsby wants Daisy to “ go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you’” (105) but Daisy asserts that “ [she] can’t say [she] never loved Tom…It wouldn’t be true.”(126) Jay cannot grasp the present reality that Daisy could not leave Tom permanently, especially when the fruit of their love is already three years of age.

Gatsby, at the time was in the army and was deployed oversees one winter evening leaving his first love behind. A part of Gatsby wished that Daisy would wait for him after the war. As the time came around for Gatsby to return home, he never showed. Daisy waited all she could, but being a young beautiful girl she was bound to meet someone in the time he was away. Daisy was married that next summer to a man named Tom Buchanan, who swept her off her feet with all of the money he had inherited from his family. “In June she married Tom… with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before.” (p 75) In ending their relationship (temporarily) Gatsby blamed this upon himself and for the next 5 years he sought out every mistake he made, trying to fix them before he met Daisy again. Gatsby did all he could to change why Daisy wouldn't wait to marry him instead, buying a house across the bay from her, throwing extravagant parties just to see if she’d show up and earning a fortunate amount of money. This event caused Gatsby’s character to constantly think about what he could have done right and how he can get Daisy back into his life.

Greatness: of ability, quality, or eminence considerably above the normal or average. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway, a Midwestern man who moves to New York to begin a career in the bond business. Soon after he moves into West Egg, Nick becomes reacquainted with his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her abrasive husband Tom Buchanan. Nick begins to hear rumors concerning his neighbor Jay Gatsby, an enigmatic and flamboyant millionaire. After attending some of Gatsby’s infamous parties, Nick fosters a close relationship with Gatsby and learns about Gatsby’s life. Gatsby, originally named James Gatz, is dissatisfied with his humble life and decides to reinvent himself into Jay Gatsby. He then accumulates a