Examples Of Allusion In The Great Gatsby

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the audience is introduced to Nick, Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Jordan. These characters are the ones that the audience mainly follows as they navigate the issues of the story. Such as Gatsby’s infatuation with Daisy, Tom’s cheating on Daisy, Myrtle being killed, and Gatsby being killed. Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, and Nick Carraway to prove hope vs. delusion. Gatsby proves hope vs. delusion mainly with his infatuation with Daisy, or more of his obsession with her. This can be seen when Jordan and Nick are talking to each other and Nick finds it to be a strange coincidence that Gatsby lived so close to Daisy, and Jordan reveals that it wasn’t a coincidence at all when she says, “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just

However, this delusion can be seen during the fight between Tom and Gatsby, where Gatsby says, “Your wife doesn’t love you, she never loved you. She loves me” (130). This shows Gatsby’s delusion, in where he feels like Daisy needs to say that she never loved Tom, or else his delusion would be shattered, where she hadn’t loved him for five years, and only just now started to love him. Daisy proves hope vs. delusion with her hope but also delusion when it comes to her marriage and relationship with Tom. This is shown when she talks to Nick about the daughter she has with Tom, she says, “I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (17). This quote shows that she is not actually foolish, she just presents herself that way so she might be able to love Tom, this is an example of her hope. Her delusion, however, is shown when Tom and Gatsby start fighting and she decides to speak up, she says, “You’re revolting, do you know why we left Chicago? I’m surprised that they didn’t treat you to the story of that little spree”