Examples Of Being Blind In The Great Gatsby

When a man falls in love, he tends to be blinded by everything else in reality. If you are truly in love with someone, you stop realizing what is happening around you because of your blindness. In the end, being blind is what can destroy you. People can get so caught up in their own world that they stop thinking about everyone else's. In the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Gatz, who is generally called by the name of Gatsby, fell in love with a young women named Daisy Buchanan. He then fought in the war. When he came back all he wanted was to repeat the past, and Daisy to fall back in love with him. Daisy was married when he got back, and this causes Gatsby to do anything in his will to get her back. Gatsby is essentially

Everyone in his life as an adult believes that he is new money by owning a lot of drug stores. One source states, “He was born into inescapable economic conditions. He had a dream of becoming a respectable and wealthy man and he had very high ambitions.”(Kyle Helsing) His whole life, he dreamt of living a better life than his family. He wanted to become a married and rich man, but sadly Gatsby did not make his money by owning a line of drug stores. He lied to everyone so he could make himself look like the person he strived to be. He was really an illegal bootlegger, and worked alongside a man named Wolfsheim. He saw himself marrying Daisy Buchanan. A long time before this, Gatsby went to go fight in the war. Before he left to go fight, Gatsby and Daisy fell in love. Gatsby then left, and Daisy was not going to wait around for him until he came back. She had moved on and married a man named Tom Buchanan. “Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven.” said Nick. (Fitzgerald 6) Daisy was currently in love with Tom. When Gatsby came back this was the time he started lying to people about who he was to try to prove to Daisy that she should have waited for him. Gatsby purposefully bought a house on the tip of the West Egg directly across the bay from Daisy. Nick says in chapter four, “Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of

His love for Daisy gets him caught up in his own world, and he hasn’t even thought about what Daisy’s real feelings may be other than her only loving Gatsby himself. Gatsby irresponsibly exclaims at the Buchanans house, “Your wife doesn’t love you, she’s never loved you. She loves me.”(Fitzgerald 130) Gatsby is proving he is a romantic idealist here because he is only thinking about his own ideas of their fantasy. Daisy then said, “I never loved him.”(Fitzgerald 132) She couldn’t even truthfully say that she never loved Tom. He was so caught up in his dreams that him and Daisy were going to go back to the way things were years ago, but that is clearly not what is going to happen. Daisy loves him, but it does not matter. This makes Gatsby even more innocent because he really thought she loved him for who he was, and was going to explain that to Tom, so in return her and Gatsby could be together. That is not how things went. Gatsby is heartbroken, and destroyed because of this. During this fight between Gatsby and Tom Daisy screamed, “Please, Tom! I can’t stand this anymore.” (Fitzgerald 134) Most likely, Daisy saying this tore Gatsby apart even more. Gatsby hears in her voice while she hollers at Tom that she is choosing him over Gatsby. His plan to get Daisy back is failing, and destroying him because of his own ideas and innocence. This is described when an article states, “In many respects, the intensity of Gatsby’s love for Daisy and his