What Is Zelda Sayre's Interpretation Of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a story about a wealthy man named Gatsby. Gatsby lives a luxuriant life in West Egg of New York. Gatsby’s wealth has an unknown secret because nobody seems to know where his wealth emerged from. Despite of having so much fortune, Gatsby’s true American dream has not been achieved. In the great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald develops Gatsby as a failed American dream to show the impossibility of the American dream in the 1920’s.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in the midst of the roaring twenties, which was an age full of wealth, parties, and romance. Young people living in the 1920s were centered around wanting to find love so Fitzgerald, along with many other authors during this time period, focused his writing in The Great Gatsby on relationships and affection. Jay Gatsby, one of the main characters in the novel, is a very mysterious man but there is one thing that readers know about him for sure: he is utterly in love with Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby shows his love for Daisy in many different ways, including him waiting for her, becoming rich for her, buying a mansion across a bay from her house, throwing parties in hopes she will come, and taking the blame for the Myrtle accident. Gatsby truly is a hopeless romantic who will do anything to impress the woman he is so in love with.

A theme from Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, is that money cannot buy a person happiness. This theme applies to Gatsby himself. Gatsby spends about half of his life trying to satisfy Daisy. He obtained an enormous amount of wealth and threw house parties for five straight years. He did this to show off his wealth and to see if Daisy would attend one of his house parties. Daisy is married to Tom and has a child named Pammy. She has feelings for Gatsby but, she eventually stays married to Tom. Throughout the book, Gatsby has an obsession with Daisy that he cannot get over. Nick says that, “He [Gatsby] knew that Daisy was extraordinary, but he didn’t realize just how extraordinary a “nice” girl could be. She vanished into her rich house, in

Gatsby uproots his entire life, changing his name and adopting questionable morals, just to entertain the idea of being the recipient of Daisy’s love. Gatsby’s love for Daisy is documented throughout the novel by his actions and the thoughts that motivate them. He puts his whole life on hold, and ultimately to an end, for the possibility of rekindling the romance he once had with Daisy, morality be damned. Gatsby sacrifices his name, his morals, and his life to have a chance at a relationship with a married woman he loved before. Gatsby’s actions are for purely selfish reasons, he wants Daisy back. The reader cannot help, however, identifying and sympathizing with Gatsby as he ventures on his quest to reclaim the love he and Daisy once shared. Although the novel deals with greed and materialism leading to despair, evident through Gatsby’s wealth leading him to death rather than life, one cannot help but hold out hope for a happy ending. Gatsby is a character who is clearly morally wrong, but is favored by the reader to finally fulfill his wish of having Daisy through any means necessary. Gatsby’s character is the biggest example of the theme of the novel, him being “great” yet still not able to use his wealth to gain

   The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about one man's disenchantment with the American dream. In the story we get a glimpse into the life of Jay Gatsby, a man who aspired to achieve a position among the American rich to win the heart of his true love, Daisy Fay. Gatsby's downfall was in the fact that he was unable to determine that concealed boundary between reality and illusion in his life.

“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 The Great Gatsby, Gatsby, a younger man around thirty years old lives in the West Egg of New York City, the side that represents new money. Throughout the story Gatsby pursuits to win over Daisy to attain happiness by showing off his social status and wealth by throwing large parties and showing off his material items because Daisy can not be without them. Gatsby is willing to do anything to be with Daisy and keeps pushing to be with her even though she is out of reach and unattainable. Gatsby ends ups dying and Daisy continues to live with her husband Tom while they are kept together by their same desire for money. Gatsby’s American Dream is out of his reach and unattainable but he continues to pursue his own dream with his wealth

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about a wealthy man, Jay Gatsby, who is still in love with a woman, Daisy Buchanan, from years back and life begins to crumble. Irony is seen many times through The Great Gatsby, with one of them begin through relationships. After Daisy kills Myrtle while driving, she is comforted by Tom, but Gatsby does not believe that.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is the story of one man searching for a long-lost love and the struggles he goes through to get her back. It is the story of Jay Gatsby, his wealth, and most importantly, his awe-inspiring love for Daisy Buchanan, his first and only true love. Gatsby spends all of his time trying to build up a life to impress Daisy and win her back from her rich, jealous, and aggressive husband, Tom Buchanan.

The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The plot is based on a character named Gatsby and his love for a women named Daisy. The story though also had another theme about something far less romantic. The story also tells about the decline of the American dream during the 1920s. The Great Gatsby gives an excellent view on the American type of wealth during the 1920s.

He met her as a penniless officer, and fell madly in love despite her elevated rank in society (and his status at the bottom). When the war ended, Gatsby did not come directly back because he had no means of providing for Daisy, but was determined to find one. When Daisy received a letter from him (presumably explaining his economic situation), she married Tom for his financial stability. It was then that Gatsby realized his potential to raise his social class if he became involved in the mob and increased his salary. This would allow him to finally be able to achieve the sumptuous lifestyle he believed could attract Daisy and make her a part of his life again. Gatsby became focused on the idea of Daisy. To him, she was more of an image in his mind than an actual person, and he managed to completely separate his perception of Daisy from the reality of her. “Gatsby, for all his shimmer of representative surfaces, is never allowed to become soiled to the touch of realism” (Bewley 228). Gatsby was only focused on appealing materially to Daisy. But Daisy chose Tom because of his immediate wealth and old-money status, both of which Gatsby lacked. It is not until she is absolutely sure of Gatsby’s fortune that she begins an affair with him, which further characterizes Daisy. She is attracted to people when they have something concrete to offer her. While Gatsby loved her when they first met, he was not able to give her the lifestyle that Tom could. To Daisy, Tom would always be the better choice because he would allow her to “retreat back into their money” (Fitzgerald 179), something Gatsby could never offer. Though the American Dream is theoretically reverential of hard work, Daisy shows that this is not true among the American public. She enjoys the privilege of being a part of the old money that Tom embodies, and requires more to win her over than just wealth. Gatsby was able to earn money

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel written in 1925. The novel is about Jay Gatsby, a man who symbolizes the immoral and corrupt society of America. This is viewed upon by Nick Carraway, the narrator of the novel, who used to be Jay Gatsby’s neighbor. Nick tells the story about many of the people living in the fictitious town in East and West Egg of Long Island in the summer of ‘22. Jay Gatsby, the protagonist of the novel, is a rich man who made a fortune by selling illegal alcohol. With that money, he uses it to impress Daisy, the love of his life. Many nights, he looks out across the bay, staring right at the green light of Daisy's house. A major theme of the novel is that F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts the feelings and personalities

Throughout the story the events that take place are all propelled forward by Gatsby’s efforts to achieve his dream, to be with the woman he loves, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby was born on a small farm in North Dakota and was very poor. While living on this farm he kept a strict schedule to follow every day and used this to stay in shape and earn money (Fitzgerald 173). He later join the military and became a major, but later we find out that he wanted to die in the war (Fitzgerald 66). When he first meet Daisy he was still poor but hid this by wearing his military uniform (Fitzgerald ). He started to date Daisy and feel deeply in love with her, so much that he felt that he was married to her (Fitzgerald 149). He was soon after sent off to fight in World War I and had to leave Daisy. After the war Gatsby was accidentally sent to Oxford instead of home to Daisy (Fitzgerald ). Not knowing if Gatsby was alive or not Daisy started to date a man named Tom Buchanan and later married him. By the time Gatsby finally got in contact with Daisy she was already married to Tom. Gatsby for years was working his way up the social ladder to the top to get to Daisy. He succeeds in getting this wealth and a higher social class and bought a mansion across the lake from Daisy and Tom. He started to throw humongious parties hoping that Daisy would come to one but doesn’t succeed. He then later meets Nick, who is Daisy's cousin, and uses him to get back into contact with Daisy. Succeeded in

The biggest dream of Gatsby is to win back Daisy. Even his determination to become rich is largely because of his desire for Daisy. In Gatsby’s opinion, Daisy equals what he wants to possess: the money, the power, the social status and the true love. In fact, Gatsby invests Daisy with an idealistic perfection that she cannot possibly attain in reality and pursues her with a passionate zeal that blinds him to her limitations. Gatsby always lives in his dream that Daisy is the purest goddess and she never stops loving him. As long as he is no longer poor, they can be together. Gatsby firmly believes that he and Daisy can repeat their romantic past and he has the power and wealth to do so. But unfortunately, Daisy is just a selfish and vanity-loving

Many of the characters have goals in this novel to buy one another's love and end up failing to reach them, which has an impact on all of the character's futures. Like the life of Tom and Daisy, the 1920's was a time of money and high society people. Love was not an important factor when there was wealth and popularity to compete. The relationship of Gatsby and Daisy was bound to fail, for people's goals in the roaring twenties was not about love. Although Gatsby was rich, Daisy still saw Gatsby as the soldier she fell in love with in the past. She does not want to ditch the life she lives with Tom because it could ruin her social status if she divorces. All in all, the ongoing theme of the novel was that money cannot be bought and shows what life was like in the years of the