Gatsby was the main focus in the story. It Was about HIM and how HIS feelings about Daisy. He loved her more than anything And it basically shows how much he risked for her and how much her opinion Mattered to him. He specifically planned everything out, and made it seem like it Was simply fate for them to be together. He had this vision of his life and he saw Daisy in it, and he did what he could to insure that she would be a part of his future, as well as his past. In The Great Gatsby, there are a lot of symbolisms and themes that revolve around the American dream. An example is wealth. In the Great Gatsby, it proves that wealth is not needed to have class, and vice versa. Poverty, on the other hand, restricts decision and action. George Wilson, for example, is unable to go West with Myrtle “because he doesn’t have enough money.. Gatsby has a big dream and lives an extraordinary lifestyle. However, his persona is 100 percent his. He grew up poor and he didn’t exactly like that. So, he changed his name to get away from his past. The main reason he tried to hard to advance is because of a girl named Daisy. He fell in love with her and he wanted to marry her. But he couldn’t because he was poor. Daisy was rich, you see. And rich girls didn’t marry poor boys. That’s where his dreams come in. Because he was born into a poor life, his dream was that one day, he could become rich. And when he does achieve it, that reflects the “American Dream”. But his dream was also his downfall. His obsession with the past is what kills him. He wanted the relationship he had with Daisy in the past. He couldn’t face the fact that that was YEARS ago and things have changed since then. He was so blinded that he didn’t s... ... middle of paper ... ... the green light represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future. Gatsby associates it with Daisy. Because Gatsby’s quest for Daisy is associated with the American dream, the green light also symbolizes that idea. Nick compares the green light to how America, rising out of the ocean, must have looked to early settlers of the new nation. Another example is The Valley of Ashes. It represents the moral and social decay that resulted from the pursuit of wealth. The rich basically care about nothing except their own pleasure. In conclusion, I also see greed as a theme for The Great Gatsby. Many of the characters become jealous of those who have more and want it for themselves. The American dream is declining because it isn’t enough anymore. People are always wanting more. more than that. They prefer a mansion to a house, money over family etc…
The valley of ashes is “a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent efforts, or men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air” (23). Here, The Valley of Ashes is regarded as complete destitution and hopelessness. The people known as the lower class do not wish to live in the valley of ashes. This is why people, like Myrtle try to do anything to get away from it but instead it becomes unachievable for them.
If one is deemed rich, they are usually labeled as a snob or arrogant. Not every rich person is mean, selfish or cruel; it’s just the way they are portrayed nowadays. Just because one is rich does not mean that one does not care for
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, the pursuit of the American dream in a corrupt period is a central theme. This theme exemplifies itself in the downfall of Gatsby. In a time of disillusionment the ideals of the American dream are lost. The classic American dream is one of materialism and when Gatsby incorporates Daisy, a human being, into the dream he is doomed to fail.
During the time in our country's history called the roaring twenties, society had a new obsession, money. Just shortly after the great depression, people's focus now fell on wealth and success in the economic realm. Many Americans would stop at nothing to become rich and money was the new factor in separation of classes within society. Wealth was a direct reflection of how successful a person really was and now became what many people strived to be, to be rich. Wealth became the new stable in the "American dream" that people yearned and chased after all their lives. In the novel entitled the great Gatsby, the ideals of the so called American dream became skewed, as a result of the greediness and desires of the main characters to become rich and wealthy. These character placed throughout the novel emphasize the true value money has on a persons place in society making wealth a state of mind.
whether he was really in love with Rosaline, or did he just want to be
For five years, Gatsby was denied the one thing that he desired more than anything in the world: Daisy. While she was willing to wait for him until after the war, he did not want to return to her a poor man who would, in his eyes, be unworthy of her love. Gatsby did not want to force Daisy to choose between the comfortable lifestyle she was used to and his love. Before he would return to her, he was determined to make something of himself so that Daisy would not lose the affluence that she was accustomed to possessing. His desire for Daisy made Gatsby willing to do whatever was necessary to earn the money that would in turn lead to Daisy’s love, even if it meant participating in actions...
Daisy has no drive, ambition or desires that she wants to complete in her life; she is a characterless person, with a beating heart.... ... middle of paper ... ... That night, Willy realized that he did not have the recognition from the one person he wanted it from most, he purposely got into a car accident and died.
...m once — but I loved you too.” (171). It is in this moment of shock that Gatsby realizes that all he has dreamt up for his future was actually his past. On the other hand, Daisy manages to face the reality of life and live in the present. Gatsby’s death is a representation of his failed dreams.
the dream, in the end, he is left dead and without the hope of winning
... but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find” (Fitzerald 118). Having devoted many years to this dream the character fails to recognize that his only motivation all along was greed so his dream never comes true.
Tom and Daisy Buchanan, the rich couple, seem to have everything they could possibly want. Though their lives are full of anything you could imagine, they are unhappy and seek to change, Tom drifts on "forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game"(pg. 10) and reads "deep books with long words in them"(pg. 17) just so he has something to talk about. Even though Tom is married to Daisy he has an affair with Myrtle Wilson and has apartment with her in New York.. Daisy is an empty character, someone with hardly any convictions or desires. Even before her relationships with Tom or, Gatsby are seen, Daisy does nothing but sit around all day and wonder what to do with herself and her friend Jordan. She knows that Tom is having an affair, yet she doesn't leave him even when she hears about Gatsby loving her. Daisy lets Gatsby know that she too is in love with him but cant bring herself to tell Tom goodbye except when Gatsby forces her too. Even then, once Tom begs her to stay, even then Daisy forever leaves Gatsby for her old life of comfort. Daisy and Tom are perfect examples of wealth and prosperity, and the American Dream. Yet their lives are empty, and without purpose.
Daisy's lifestyle. She and her equally corrupt friend Jordan Baker sit around all day basking in
Daisy even be cause? she loved him so why would she try to be involved in this
dream for a better life gave him a sense of purpose. Daisy's purpose in life
that her husband was having an affair with another women but Daisy did not do