In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald a man who orders his life around one desire to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. Gatsby's quest leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved, and eventually to death. All the money in the world would not make Jay Gatsby happy for he lived to love Daisy Buchanan and died without her love. Money isn’t the way to be fulfilled with happiness to one's life. Jay Gatsby has a plan of winning Daisy Buchanan, which is Tom Buchanan’s wife.
During the 1920’s, many people were power-hungry. They all wanted to be at the top and be the richest of the rich and be able to buy whatever they want. The 1920’s was a time where people were able to go from rags to riches, industries were growing and making money, and it was also the era of the Prohibition, a law that banned alcohol. “The Great Gatsby” was able to reflect on noticeable and non-noticeable aspects of the 1920’s. It reflects on the postwar disillusionment, the rise of the nouveau riche, and how business became the new religion for the United States.
It was one of the most sought after things in America for the longest time; it included wealth, family, and happiness. It is more commonly known as the American Dream. F. Scott Fitzgerald tackles this subject in The Great Gatsby while telling the story of Jay Gatsby’s last summer. This novel represents the struggles he faced while chasing his American Dream. Jay’s fictional story reaches a deeper level and shows how little Fitzgerald believes in the American Dream.
There are many reasons why a person would want to pretend like someone they are not. It could be for shame, fear, or pride, it could be for any reason. However, the real question is, is this worth it? The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald deeply critiques the masks people put on during the 1920s just for the sole purpose of fitting in to society, which mostly consists of wealthy people. With this, comes the superficiality of them and the situation they are in.
In the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, what Jay Gatsby feels for Daisy Buchanan is obsession. Gatsby revolves and rearranges his entire life in order to gain her affections. Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy resulted in him buying a mansion across the lake from her, throwing huge parties, and spending years of his life trying to become rich. Gatsby bought mansion intentionally across the lake from Daisy just to be closer to her.
Hope and love are sometimes all you need to get through even the darkest situations, but they make such situations bearable perhaps by blinding one to the reality of things. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby is unable to forget his past lover Daisy Buchanan. He will do anything for her, to win her back. His entire life revolves around her, from his mansion to his luxurious parties; nearly his every decision is made with Daisy in mind.
People want to love and to be loved; yet life gets complicated when the person you love doesn’t feel the same way about you. F. Scott Fitzgerald shows that Tom is obsessed with Daisy and wants her to proclaim her love for him. Gatsby’s life revolves around his love for Daisy, although Daisy does not feel the same way about Gatsby. Gatsby thinks the love from Daisy is real even though she doesn’t truly love him. Gatsby tries to convince Daisy’s husband, Tom, that Daisy is in love with Gatsby.
The American Dream comes and goes throughout everyone’s lives in America. But for some, it shows a spark of hope of a dream that will allow them to succeed in life. Whether it is something that people want to have in their lives or having a goal in their mind, it is what allows people to continue pushing through life and doing everything to get what they want. The American Dream creates a vision of what people want in their future but, if this “vision” fails, many people would either give up or find a new dream. There are many reasons why people give up on their dreams, but some, they believe that it is out of their control to accomplish their dreams such as the main characters in The Great Gatsby.
In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby goes the extra mile to gain the “love of his life,” which I believe is for the American Dream he had never fully experienced. When deciding Gatsby’s intentions with Daisy, it is important to take in Gatsby’s view of her as a person, why he wants to be with her so badly, and his experience with healthy love. Ultimately, I believe, Jay Gatsby was not in love with Daisy; instead he
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays love, obsession, and objectification through the characters Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Some might say their love was true and Gatsby’s feelings for her was pure affection, while others say that he objectifies and is obsessed with her. Perhaps Gatsby confuses lust and obsession with love, and throughout the novel, he is determined to win his old love back. At the end of the novel, Gatsby is met with an untimely death and never got to be with Daisy. The reader is left to determined if Gatsby’s and Daisy’s love was pure and real, or just wasn’t meant to be.
he lies and betrayal all due to his obsession with Daisy lead James Gatz into a downward spiral. The main character James Gatz nicknames Gatsby falls into different holes of temptation when returning from war and finding his old lover Daisy Buchanan who is now married and has a daughter with her husband Tom. Gatsby wants nothing more than to win her back and is willing to do anything to be with her regardless of the consequences or its effects on others. His illegal and morally wrong actions in an attempt to be with Daisy transform him into a corrupt antagonist. In The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Gatz is not truly a great man who commits illegal acts out of delusion and lies to himself and others.
The Great Gatsby is a tragic love story. Most marriages in The Great Gatsby are loveless, frigid, and therefore littered with infidelity. Daisy Buchanan’s husband has a mistress and she decides she deserves a lover too. When Jay Gatsby declares his long lost love for Daisy, she is captivated by the excitement. Daisy whom is attracted to luxury is enthralled by Gatsby’s affluence.
With the use of the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald is saying people should not be afraid to pursue their dreams and try to obtain what they want in life. It doesn’t matter what your background is or how difficult that goal may seem. The goal you have can be possible if you have the courage to pursue it. People can come up with an enormous amount of interpretations of what the Great Gatsby’s theme is, and this is one of my interpretations because of everything an important character had to endure to be where he wanted in life. The Great Gatsby is a really well known book, and this story took place in the 1920s(Also known as The Jazz age and The Roaring Twenties).
Throughout the novel, we are able to see how the lives of all these characters revolve around wealth, power, and social acceptance. Fitzgerald struggles to prove that even though love seems to be there,
After reading The Great Gatsby, I can say that I think the book was mediocre in my opinion. The ending of the book was not my favorite. I guess I just love a happy ending, and the ending was not the slightest bit happy. I believe Gatsby was a good man and should not have been shot from a wrongful accusation. Daisy should not have picked Tom over Gatsby because Gatsby was willing to go to the extreme to obtain her.
