Obligation In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel set back into the roaring 1920’s where hopes were high and dreams were possible. The beginning of the novel introduces our narrator Nick Carraway. Who dreams of a more exciting life outside of the midwest. He decides to head east. He arrives in East egg the land of the newly found rich. Where he meets his neighbor, an aloof man of the name Jay Gatsby. With the meeting of his neighbor followed many events in which impacted the characters of this novel, Nick Carraway being the most affected, in fact it changed his views not only of people, of the world, but also of long sought out American Dream.

In life, what is perceived tends to show misconception in how thoughts play out. One prime character in the novel is, Jay Gatsby, he was not capable to decide between the love he felt for Daisy and the illusion that he could recapture her love by inventing a false past. Jay believed he could repeat the past. In the novel, Jay Gatsby refuses to establish the differences in the reality of his life and his illusions for his love for Daisy. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s American classic: “The Great Gatsby,” displays how deception effects when one falls in love and when one realizes reality.

Fitzgerald shows that throughout the story, Gatsby slowly becomes more obsessed with Daisy as he draws closer and closer to be with her. By the end of the book, Gatsby becomes obsessed with Daisy. He only thinks about her and analyze everything in her life. Even in the beginning when the reader finally meets Gatsby, his obsession shows. Instead of trying to come to Daisy herself and meet her again, he buys a huge mansion across from Daisy, as Jordan Baker told Nick, “It

Gatsby tries to influence Nick into helping him fall in love with Daisy. Fitzgerald states, “I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby 's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited—they went there” (45). The quote shows how Gatsby wants to manipulate Nick into helping Daisy fall in love with him. Gatsby was inviting Nick to his parties because he knew Nick was cousins with Daisy, and Nick could help Gatsby and Daisy to regain the love they once had for each other. Gatsby was hoping that since he has invited Nick to all the parties that he hosted that in return, Nick would do something nice to him. Nick does not realize that Gatsby is using him this way until the day that Gatsby told him what he wanted him to do. Gatsby achieved the goal, he wanted through Nick because he finally got to meet Daisy. Gatsby was really selfish because he tricked Nick into being his friend, but all he really wanted from Nick to get him and Daisy back together. Manipulation is just one of the ways that people who are selfish use toward other people to get what they

Through Jay Gatsby and Frank Lucas’ goal orienting character, their characters are both destroyed due to the fact of their aspirations, although it destructs their persona both in a different manner. Gatsby’s dream is to become a wealthy man in order to reunite with Daisy and win her heart once again. All Daisy really wants is a man who can ensure her financial stability and Gatsby believes if he attains wealth it will ensure him that they can be together. On the other hand, as Gatsby consumes his time by becoming rich, it destroys his emotional sense of feeling guilty or sadness from wrongdoing. This is because he does not have an emotional conscious from achieving his wealth illegally. In the novel, one of the character’s, Tom Buchannan, says to Gatsby, “He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter… I picked him for a bootlegger

The girl that Gatsby has once loved has been “short of his dreams- not through her own fault, but because of the constant vitality of his illusions,” and it is James Gatz who has gone into loving Daisy, but the high expectations of Jay Gatsby which ruins that love for her (Fitzgerald 95). As such, Gatsby’s hope to salvage her love proves to be meaningless as "his gift for hope, as it turns out, is Gatsby’s curse as well as his blessing," and so "it insulates him from the rational and experiential restraints" which causes him to be blinded by any form of rejection in his conscious when it comes to Daisy (Steinbrink). Gatz’s love for Daisy encompasses the basic foundation that makes James Gatz more genuine than Jay

Jay Gatsby pursued the American Dream with incredible dedication. His methods were of course questionable, he got involved in morally weak scams with Wolfsheim, his entire identity was built around lies, and he debatable used Daisy’s love as an object. However, his child-like hopefulness was pervasive throughout every action he made. If nothing more, he undeniably had one dream that he fought for with everything in him. That type of passion is what made him so human, and in this society, on must pay “a high price for living too long with a single dream” (Fitzgerald 161). Gatsby’s death was inevitable because the strength of his desire to fulfill his dream was so powerful that it contradicted what was necessary to survive this society- indifference. The man simply had too much passion, too much drive, and not enough carelessness, as Tom and Daisy had. He never wavered, he never accepted that as long as he tried to compromise between soul and greed, his dream would never be accomplished; and he died “still lacking in the knowledge that would destroy the spell of his enchantment” (Bloom 1). Jay Gatsby is representational of anyone who still hopes, dreams, and feels care for another, will be unable to flourish or persist in such a vicious and materialistic

on by tom. Even with all the money tom has for her, she still feels this way. To nick, it also seems that tom is not even happy when nick states that He has a "hard mouth and a supercilious manner". The fact that Daisy is mad that she is being cheated on also shows that she is not happy with all the wealth she has, she cares about her husband being faithful. It is also demonstrated when Tom is even unhappy, being one of the wealthiest men. Lastly at the end of Gatsby’s funeral in chapter 9 when no one shows up but his dad, Nick, and some servants. The fact that Gatsby had no friends but nick who he had known for a little while just further shows how even with the money he wasn't able to gain some friends. He had all this money and yet was still

The desire for money, prosperity, and happiness exists deeply within the nature of every human beings, and serves as one of the most fundamental and powerful motivations that will lead one to strive, improve, prosper and eventually fulfill his dream. However, everything has two sides—when the desire overgrows into obsession and starts controlling that person rather than let letting the person control it, the so called motivation will turn into greed and as a result, catastrophic events will happen. In the award-winning novel The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, many characters suffer from their own desires and ultimately end their life in tragedy in their blind pursuit of these values. Fitzgerald uses allegory through characterizations

F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby tells the story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby to represent something more than a character in the book. He uses Gatsby to represent the American dream. The American Dream is the belief that with hard work, and determination, anything is possible for those who are willing to work for it and set their mind to achieving it.

In the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is a man who is known to be determined and relentless in the pursuit of having to have Daisy and for acceptance by the rich and established. Jay Gatsby displays an aspiration to achieve his goals at any cost, even if that involves having to commit a crime. Throughout Jay Gatsby’s journey in the novel with a goal in mind it does not justify the means in the end and shows how Jay Gatsby is not so great after all.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the novel The Great Gatsby to show how the wealthy community coexisted during the Roaring Twenties. The two important characters in this story that show the differences between classes are Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Both these characters contribute directly to the tragic ending. In the novel, Jay Gatsby believes that his new found wealth and power will help him acquire his long awaited dream and eventually his happiness. In order to obtain this dream, Gatsby has to renew his love affair with Daisy a young woman from Gatsby’s past whom he loved dearly but lost. Gatsby had a love affair with Daisy, in his younger years, however Gatsby knew that it would not amount to marriage because they were from different social

Jay Gatsby tries to gain the love of Daisy throughout the book and thinks that it is all he needs. Gatsby throws a party almost every night in hopes that Daisy will end up at one and they will be reunited. When that does not work he has Nick invite her over. Daisy is reintroduced to Jay and she is shown around his mansion. As they walk around, Mr. Gatsby shows Daisy his huge collection of fancy and very expensive clothes.

As Fitzgerald writes, Gatsby’s motive for such magnificence is revealed to be engendered by his overwhelming sense of pathological narcissism. This consistently egocentric behavior is rooted in Jay Gatsby’s desire to provide himself with a mirror. An idea such as this is culminated by author Giles Mitchell in his analysis Gatsby is a Pathological Narcissist, precisely conveying Gatsby’s idealization of himself and Daisy Buchanan, whom he had loved for five years, despite her decision to marry someone else. He finds Daisy Buchanan to be a mirror; she is somebody who provides him with, “...the mirror of [her] symbolism” (Mitchell). This supplies Jay Gatsby with constant fuel for his ego-ideal in order for him to pursue his desire to develop an impeccable persona. The protagonist’s desire to persuade Daisy to leave her husband exemplifies yet another tactic to obtain one of his “...exploitive demands,” in order to compensate for his narcissistic

His neighbour is James Gatz, known as Jay Gatsby, a male who offers in his great mansion extravagant parties, that all kinds of people attend but where he does not participate. He appears surrounded by guests, mysteriously aloof, without even let see himself. He is just a silhouette in the shadows. Little by little, Nick establishes a friendship with Daisy, his distant cousin, who got marry with a millionaire whose name is Tom Buchanan. It was in their house on East Egg, where Nick meets Jordan Baker, with whom he had a short affaire. Thanks to her, Nick discovers the truth: Daisy is the true love of Gatsby from long ago, when she was a rich girl, and had a relationship with a Camp Taylor´s officer who was quite poor. In order to having her close, Gatsby bought a great mansion where he lives nowadays, on West Egg, opposite Daisy´s one. Later, we can see how Gatsby confirms everything and he expresses his willing to get back Daisy, and how the luxury and the money are the only tools to achieve his