Who Is Gatsby?

True love is an emotion that every human being should have the privilege of experiencing once in their life. There is no one correct definition for this feeling, it is definitely different for everyone, but in the end love should make your life better not more difficult. These days the concept of true love has become cliché and people are letting outside factors dictate their emotions. This problem, while it is very prominent today, is not a new thing. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, the idea of mistaken true love fills the pages. All the characters have different ideas of what love really is and its worth. Fitzgerald uses his characters Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby to show three different yet

There is a fine line between love and lust. If love is only a will to possess, it is not love. To love someone is to hold them dear to one's heart. In The Great Gatsby, the characters, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan are said to be in love, but in reality, this seems to be a misconception. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays the themes of love, lust and obsession, through the character of Jay Gatsby, who confuses lust and obsession with love. By the end of the novel however, Jay Gatsby is denied his "love" and suffers an untimely death. The author interconnects the relationships of the various prominent characters to support these ideas.

He wants to be the perfect man for Daisy. “We both looked down at the grass –there was a sharp line where my ragged lawn ended and the darker, well-kept expanse of his began. I suspected he meant my grass” (p82). This shows the theme of appearance against reality and how Gatsby wants everything to look presentable and nice for his first meeting with Daisy after five years. He feels like having a lot of wealth, a flashy car and an enormous palace, he can reconquer her love, who is a materialistic woman. He spent years on end throwing parties, to get himself known as a rich man and so that he could attract Daisy.” He wants her to see his house … And your house is right next door” (p79). “I want you and Daisy to come over to my house… I’ d like to show her around” (p.89). Here he is planning on making his dream come true. By having Daisy at his house, he can show her that he is wealthy enough to provide for her what she wants.

F. Scott Fitzgerald tone throughout the novel is that Gatsby’s love for Daisy is one-of-a-kind and matchless . In chapter one Nick states that, “it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find this again”, which shows how rare the love Gatsby shows is. Nick was referring to Gatsby’s need to get Daisy back into his life. To Gatsby her love was a necessity. (6;

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald begins by portraying Gatsby as a wealthy, charming man; however, as time goes on, Gatsby’s real personality and intentions are shown, including his obsession with Daisy. This is first shown when Jordan Baker (a friend of Daisy’s) tells Nick, “It wasn’t a coincidence at all. Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (“Fitzgerald” 78). Even though Gatsby had not seen or talked to Daisy in over five years, he bought a house in West Egg that was located very near to her own residence. Therefore, he can know where she is, what she is doing, and try to see her once again. Another example of Gatsby’s obsessiveness towards Daisy is shown everytime he throws lavish, all inclusive parties. He reveals this to Jordan who then tells Nick, “I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night. Then he began asking people casually if they knew her, and I was the first one he found” (79). This shows that Gatsby is not only obsessed with Daisy but is willing to spend his time and money trying to lure her into his home. The whole reason that the parties are thrown and no invitations are given out, is that so anybody and everyone can come. He hopes that Daisy will hear about them, come to a party, see him in his mansion, and fall in love with him once again.

However, from the description of the novel, also from the eye contact and emotional expression of Gatsby in the movie, it can be easily found that Gatsby really loves Daisy the girl. She is the goddess in his heart all the time. It seems that there is a deep gap between Gatsby and Daisy. He cannot forget his top girl all the time and he even firmly believed that he is able to draw Daisy’s heart back as long as he can possess a huge amount of

In the novel, Jay Gatsby, an exceedingly wealthy man, throws extravagant, and lavish parties, but behind his wealth, and all the parties he remains unsatisfied. Daisy questions, “I love it, but I don’t see how you live there all alone.” (Fitzgerald 90). In this scene Daisy is astonished by the enormous size of Gatsby's mansion. His mansion is so large yet he has no one to fill it. He has so many rooms and accommodations for everyone but his empty house is a representation of his empty heart; for without Daisy it

Gatsby loved Daisy with all of his heart yet it was not the Daisy he met that captured his heart, but the illusion of Daisy. Daisy’s love for Gatsby is by far one of the grandest illusions that is mistaken for reality. For nearly five years, from the day he had left for WW1, Jay had his heart set on marrying Daisy upon his arrival. He returned to the United States, built up his million dollar fortune, and expected that he would be soon be with Daisy forever: “‘It was a strange coincidence,’ I said. ‘But it wasn 't a coincidence at all.’ 'Why not? ' 'Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay. ' Then it had not been just the stars to which

Houses in The Great Gatsby are another on of the very important symbols, depicting conspicuous consumption, and the hopeless wish of the American dream. "the one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, ing new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. it was Gatsby's mansion (9)." Gatsby's house, and his elaborate parties, signify a certain emptiness in Gatsby. His only reason for setting up these gigantic parties in his large house is to, though futile, attract the attention of Daisy. His enormous house goes to show that he has this money to spend, but spends it on something that will not help him to be happy, or to catch the attention of Daisy; This is probably the most conspicuous consumption of all. Tom Buchanan also has a large house, but for entirely different reasons. "Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile,

My real name is James Gatz; however a lot of you know me by the name of Jay Gatsby. I was born in North Dakota, in 1890 to a poor-farming family. As a boy I always dreamed of myself being a rich and famous man living in luxury and far away from my life as a farmer. So, in 1907 I was 17 and was attending St. Olaf College in Minnesota. To attend the college I was forced to work as a janitor to be able to pay off the tuition. I couldn’t bare working as a janitor, thus after two weeks at St. Olaf College I dropped out. Furthermore, after dropping out I applied for a job at McDonalds and worked there for a couple of years until I received my first break. As many of you already know, that break came in the way of a contract with the Chicago White

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald shows love as a physical feeling through romantic or memorable settings in the novel. For starters, a setting that very largely displays this message is when Nick invites Daisy over for tea, but little does she know that she’s going to be meeting Gatsby for the first time in 5 years. Nick tells Daisy “Don’t bring Tom” (Fitzgerald 83). He doesn’t want her to bring Tom because Nick wants Daisy and Gatsby have alone time. Gatsby wanted everything to be perfect for this. So he had “...a man in a raincoat, dragging a lawn mower” (Fitzgerald 83) at Nick’s front door saying “...that Mr. Gatsby had sent him over to cut my grass” (Fitzgerald 83). Nick went

1. What is revealed when Nick says that people aren’t actually invited to Gatsby’s parties, that they just sort of go there?

Love in the novel The Great Gatsby is shown multiple times throughout. One example of love in the novel is the love between Gatsby and Daisy. Gatsby tries everything to try and get Daisy to love him like she used to. Daisy has ultimately married Tom after Gatsby left her to go to war and wants to stay with Tom now that Gatsby is back from the war. Gatsby went to the war and came back with a higher social standing. Before he left, he believed that he did not deserve Daisy and that is why he left. Now that he feels like he has a high enough social status, he now feels that he deserves Daisy (Fitzgerald). This shows how Gatsby would change anything in order to be able to be with the women that he loved. He would even give up his life to protect the women that he loved. In chapter 7, Gatsby admits that Daisy was the one that was driving the car. He then later states “but of course I’ll say I was” when asked if Daisy was driving the car (Fitzgerald). This is Gatsby trying to protect Daisy. He does not want the women that he loves to get in trouble and so if it comes to it, then he will take the blame for hitting and killing that woman that Daisy ran into. The love that Gatsby has for Daisy is ruining his life. If he was not as in love with Daisy as he was, then he would not take all of these risks. He would be able to live his life like he should and he would not be potentially ruining his life for taking the blame for something that he did not do, just to protect the woman that he loves. The

His mansion is described as follows at page 11: “It is a colossal affair by any standard; it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and also a marble swimming pool. Jay Gatsby’s house covered more than forty acres of lawn and land.” This mansion, made on his request, fuels Gatsby’s image as a wealthy and mysterious man, given that almost everyone had been to his house due to his parties thrown on a regular basis, but nobody had ever seen him. But the house is only an image of himself he wants to divulge, but doesn’t reflect him in any way. Like his house, Gatsby has to be deeply investigated to really understand who he really is and what drives his actions. Gatsby is desperately in love with Daisy Buchanan, and chose the position of the house solely to be close to her. In fact his house overlooks hers from the other side of the bay. His entire house is designed in order for her to love it and live in it with him. Also the parties are thrown in hope that she might one day show up at one of

He goes out of his way to do many things such as throwing lavish parties every night just for Daisy to notice him. He often seems like a modest man as he never goes out of get her to notice him. He asks Nick for aid in becoming closer to her, which was him using Nick in actuality. Everything that Gatsby had ever done in his life was based upon his pursuit of this dream of his perfect life with her. He moved to New York and bought his mansion because of Daisy. Jordan Baker says, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.” He held many expensive parties in the hope that Daisy might show up at one of them. Jordan also said, "I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night, but she never did." His daily life was also controlled by this dream. Gatsby was naive to the fact his money could not buy him what he wanted. Daisy’s values were different from Gatsbys. Gatsby, knowing his past, is a self sufficient, made to be what he is kind of man. Whereas Daisy was given everything and is always bored and moving from one shiny new object to the next. Daisy is childish in this way. When she first goes to Gatsby's house after their meeting set up by Nick, she says "It makes me sad because I've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before." She is focused on the material, finding another source of entertainment who has substantial wealth. Gatsby is too caught up in having her around to actually notice