Chasing What's Lost in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Chasing What’s Lost
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is sometimes what a person stands for. These 3 keys of life are what Gatsby lives by and represents in the story The Great Gatsby. The life he represents gives much power and great popularity but also secrecy. Everyone around him and from a far knows exactly who he is. Gatsby knows the government and knows everything he stands for. He knows the powerful but useful ones he will need to know later in his life if something chooses to go wrong. This kind of happens to relate to modernism, it starts of as one thing, but transforms into another thing as time and the book moves on. The right to liberty is supposed to protect the individual’s ability to act and think on his own judgment. The protection that Gatsby has remains on his actions that he chooses throughout the different situations that are caused. There is only one person that he remains to pursue, and that is Daisy. He tries to get her back because he believes that she will make his life complete. Like in The Great Gatsby, Gatsby pursues Daisy into coming to his house just so he can spend more time with her after talking for hours at Nicks’ house. Pursuit of happiness just means that you get the right to try to make a greater life for yourself, not that you'll actually get it. In the story we don’t actually know how he got all this money which is now his, but it seems to be impressing others upon its large amount in quantity. He is the type of person who will not so much as fight for what he wants, but will try to per-sway them into thinking that they should be with him instead, like Daisy. Fitzgerald writes about how the American Dream eventually died in the end. He didn’t so much as focus on the c...

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...hen it involves a parent’s child, they will most likely do anything they can for that child to whatever extent.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is sometimes what a person stands for. For some they’ve grown into a greater society, while others chose to take the chances on their own or in their specific high or low society, within their means. Nothing good really comes from being rich other than buying things many other people cannot. It reflect on your image as stuck-up and royalty. Every families situation is different, to even where back then as Gatsby and his friends had pockets full of money were treated differently yet the same. Fitzgerald didn’t so much as focus on the characters as people but more as a message for others to try to understand. And I believe that within time things have evolved and have become greater in a sense of destruction