Why Is The Great Gatsby Admirable

Readers often find aspects of "The Great Gatsby" attractive but ultimately the world of the novel is not admirable. Discuss.

The world woven by Fitzgerald in ‘The Great Gatsby’ presents a whole host of striking lifestyles that often make the reader envious. But once we look past the mansions, the fast cars and the non-stop partying we see the hollow people that run our fantasies, and they’re not as pretty as they seem. The novel puts materialism, the American Dream, appearance versus reality and, past and present on a pedestal but they’re not as admirable as they seem.

The majority of the characters in the novel seem to have it all; dream houses, cars and alcohol (in a time when it was banned). They have the lifestyle that you can only dream about. But when you look past the exterior of those mansions and look within, you see how

He was chasing a pipe dream. I think it’s sad that he’s delusional to the point where he believes he can get Daisy to run off with him and love him if he has a few euro in the back of his pocket. He had all the ingredients to his dream, except Daisy, because you can’t buy someone’s love the way you can a mansion or a car. It’s fine to be nostalgic every now and then but to chase the past to the point of obsession, when you know its long gone isn’t. But in spite of how foolish it is, I think I was secretly hoping he’d get there. I was hoping for Gatsby to achieve what no one else has, to get back to a point in time and have it look and feel exactly the same. It’s maybe the most attractive aspect of the novel because you nearly think he’ll achieve it but alas, we were brought back to reality, not with the ring of a telephone, but with a bang.

To conclude, there are many attractive elements in ‘The Great Gatsby’ such as owning everything you could ever want, achieving your dreams, appearing to be perfect and returning to the past but they sadly aren’t as admirable up