‘The Great Gatsby’ was talking a story, that a young millionaire, Gatsby, want to marry Nick’s cousion, Daisy. Gatsby was Daisy’s lover, but they did not see each other for five years. In this five years, Daisy married to another rich man, Tom. When Gatsby came back, he has had a hard choice---show his love to Daisy or hide the love in the heart. In the final, he showed his love and let everybody knew it, Daisy’s husband was very angry and let Gatsby instead Daisy’s crime. Gatsby was dead in the end by Mr. Willison. This story show the reader that at that time people loves money and always dream some impossible things. The book was not so popular at that time because the story show the environment and atmosphere very clearly. Most …show more content…
But in the writer’s mind, Gatsby was a totally different from other person. “Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction- Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him…… No - Gatsby turned out all right at the end; It is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”(Chapter1.) This sentence shows readers the society at that time. It was a shamed, unfounded and missing world. People were always worry about money and power. “I said,’ I am glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool -- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’”(Chaper 1.) This sentence show the reader the society was very dark at that time. Alought Daisy is silly in the story, she still can understand it was very hard for a woman or a girl live in the society. That’s why in the end of the book she can not wait Gatsby came back. All the people love money more than a person, so this is the reason when the Gatsby came back he have the party everyday at his house, he wanted to attract …show more content…
But both of them understand that Daisy’s love is money. They treat themselves. “‘Daisy loved me when she married me and she loves me now.’ ‘No,’ said Gatsby, shaking his head. ‘She does, thought. The trouble is that sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and dosen’t know what she’s doing.’ He nodded sagely. ‘And what’s more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.’”(Chapter7.) This sentence is about Gatsby showed love to Daisy and hope everybody understand which kind of affection he had. Gatsby wanted to let Daisy tell Tom she never loved him but loved him. “He stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only his hand wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But is was all going by too fast now for his blurred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.”(Chapter 8.) This sentence show Gatsby to Daisy’s love, he and Tom both of them have already know that Daisy only loved money but they still did not want to give up Daisy. This movement showed that people at that time were very hypocritical, they only admit things that is right in their
she cried to Gatsby. “I love you now-isn;t that enough? I can’t help what’s past”. She is admitting that she did love Tom but her love and hope for Gatsby now should be enough. Daisy and Gatsby’s hope for each other causes them to damage each other and the people around
The Great Gatsby is a classic book in which most characters’ lives revolve around wealth, however, that wealth could not buy them happiness. It is illustrated by F. Scott Fitzgerald where most of the story includes wealth and power. It also includes the Pursuit of happiness by which Jay Gatsby’s tries to get back the love of his life Daisy. His downfall is witnessed by his one and only good friend Nick Carraway. On one side of the story it is about love and money, but on the other darker side it is about the destruction of society’s morals.
The classic novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an outstanding article. The story is a overwhelming. Everyone is trying to live the American Dream. Everyone in the book has a character flaw. Gatsby is a joke!
Love, a deep affection, is only complete when felt by two unique individuals. In this story Gatsby has become blinded by his affection for Daisy he does not stop to consider anything else but being with her. He has this illusion and fantasy he has longed for since a little boy in his dream. While he has obtained everything else, the fame, glory, and wealth he lacks one thing, a lover. He has his life all crafted out and Daisy was his missing piece.
However, in chapter 7, during the confrontation, Daisy quickly rethinks her decisions and states, ‘I did love him once – but I loved you too’. As Gatsby hopes and expectations of them being together breaks the audience starts to comprehend that Daisy contradicting statements is purely because she is afraid to leave Tom. Tom came from a wealthy family and was highly respected in society. Daisy knew that life with him would be luxiourous and entirely satisfactory in terms of respect and wealth. In addition, the author is trying to convey to the audience that Daisy is too secure in her marriage with Tom to even consider leaving it.
”(93) Clearly, he is trying to get Daisy to love him and make her feel bad about marrying Tom by showing her all the letters, pictures of their past relationship. This shows Gatsby’s feelings for Daisy are pretty much self serving and manipulative, that is not love at all.
Even though Daisy hasn’t seen Gatsby in five years, she still has a love for him deep down in her. Daisy’s more for money over love and her husband Tom inherited money from his own family which was past down
On one hand, Gatsby gains enormous wealth through his own effort from the bottom of the society, which could be regarded as “the great” from a practical perspective in his guests’ eyes. However, in the end, his success becomes just an illusion. His ultimate dream—Daisy’s love –cannot be gained even if he is that wealthy, and his tragic death indicates that “the greatness” of his striving is easy to be destroyed. On the other hand, “the great” also reveals that Gatsby used to be a great figure in his numerous guests’ eyes, when he is able to hold glamorous parties every week. However, ironically, eventually he is just a nobody that none of his friends except Nick care after his death.
(99) In this moment, Gatsby makes it clear to Daisy that he could easily provide her with the same lifestyle she shares with Tom. Once Gatsby captures Daisy’s affection, he becomes full of greed and doesn’t want to believe she ever gave any of her love to Tom. “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.’” (118) When Daisy states “‘Even alone I can’t say I never loved Tom,’ (142), Gatsby begins to feel a “touch of panic” (142). All of his parties, stories, and entire persona were all fabricated to win Daisy back.
Gatsby has spent his whole life trying to prove to Daisy and everyone around him that he is worthy of her. The only way to be on the same social level as her is to turn himself into new money. Since this is not possible, he has to try to convince to others that he truly is old money. To do this, he becomes rich, and lies about his past, but the only way for him to complete this idea is if he is with Daisy. She is the final piece in his American dream.
In the final chapter of The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, crowds rejoice as this whirlwind novel of materialism and pride comes to a dramatic closing….In writing this chapter, Nick, the narrator, describes the aftermath of Gatsby’s death two years later, in Minnesota, which leads the reader to fully realize that the entire novel was written from Nick’s interpretation and memory of the events, if they hadn’t figured it out by now. In the chapter, Nick tells how he tried to arrange a large funeral for Gatsby in hopes that his many friends would come to pay their final respects to the man, only to realize that none of Gatsby’s “friends” were willing to go highlighting how the multitudes of guests at his parties only came for the
In Tom and Daisy’s relationship, it shows that money can ruin relationships but if you see past that barrier of money there are little pieces of love that stand out more than money. However, at the end of the day Tom and Daisy have money, are united, but they are not happy with each other. Gatsby’s relationship with Daisy includes both money and love. By this Fitzgerald is suggesting that it is possible to have love, however, it leads to difficulties because you can either have the dedication of Gatsby trying to get what he wants and never give up, or you can accept reality and realize how you will not be able to achieve your
Once Daisy begins to see Gatsby on a regular basis, Gatsby begins to encourage Daisy to leave Tom and create a life with him. In the novel, Nick observes, “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should 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.” Gatsby believes he can provide Daisy with a lavish and happy life that her unfaithful husband could never give
However, when Gatsby comes back as a mysterious millionaire with a lavish lifestyle, Daisy falls for him again. According to Daisy, the reunion with Gatsby is miserable not only because of the rekindled flame between the two past lovers, but also because Gatsby now has the upper-class lifestyle she yearns for, yet she is not with him (Gam). Her love is based on his attraction which comes not from Gatsby himself but from his money and material luxury. People around her gradually
Gatsby wanted a relationship with Daisy not only both as being rich, but after he returned from the war, Daisy finally had the opportunity to have a relationship with Gatsby. In Chapter Five of “The Great Gatsby”, shows two rhetoric passages where