Examples Of Discrimination In The Great Gatsby

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H. L. Mencken once said “It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.” In F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby the main character, Jay Gatsby, is stuck in a moment of his past with Daisy, unable to realize that nothing was the same. His dream of reliving the moment became an obsession more like an hallucination, which ended up in tragedy. And it happens to many of the characters in the novel as well. Much in the real world, The Great Gatsby reveals how the American dream is nothing but a futile obsession.
Jay Gatsby, the main character of the novel, fell in love with a beautiful rich girl named Daisy. “She was the first ‘nice’ girl he had ever known.” (Fitzgerald 148) They were together for a month before he left for the army. Gatsby had a difficult life, he came from a poor family and tried his best to get out of that economic situation. So happened when he met people like Dan Cody, and Meyer Wolfsheim and became a bootlegger. “Did you start him in business?” I inquired. “Start him! I made him.” said Wolfsheim” (Fitzgerald 171). Five years later, Gatsby moved to West Egg right across Daisy’s house. He was now able to …show more content…

He wasted his life trying to be better for her, but it wasn’t enough. He thought he would have everything he was determined to, Money, status, and the beautiful girl. Nevertheless, his fantasy came to an end when, after all he worked for, Daisy leaves with Tom and he Dies. “After not using his pool during summer, Gatsby decides it would be an excellent idea to do it before summer is over, he never imagined that George was looking after him, hiding in his garden. Minutes later, the shotgun was fired and when the servants got there it was too late. They found Gatsby’s body surrounded by a thin red circle in the water” (Fitzgerald

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