But, as Gatsby found out, love is like being on a battlefield and you have to fight for the person you love. Gatsby was madly in love with Daisy but when he went off to war she moved on. He didn’t necessarily get her back, but she did have an affair with him which lead him to believe he was getting his true love back. True happiness is one idea that can only be defined by each individual. Nobody really knows what true happiness is, but as long as each person is happy with themselves and their situation then they may have true happiness.
Although, he is not in love with the Daisy’s personality, he is infatuated by her looks. One could say that he is in love with the illusion of daisy. The idea of her still being the same girl he left behind before going to war is the idea he obsesses over. He does not realize that he can not just pick up where he left off. When he returned to his beloved Daisy, she had broken her promise and married a wealthy man as well as had a child.
He soon begins to see the world for what it really was instead of this fiction of freedom he created in his mind. This was not an instantaneous realization though, the beginning of the trip was exactly what Rawlins, and John expected. Alejandra was a revelation for John, his first love. Although he genuinely loved her, he was merely a pawn to Alejandra. John was banned from seeing Alejandra by her aunt, but soon enough, she visited him at his ranch.
She starts to make excuses for him not answering. When she calls again her lover doesn't pick up avoiding her, which makes her wonder what he is doing.The she is obsessed over every action he has done. Feeling rejected and avoided from her lover, she is rationalizing his actions in order because she think she loves him. If she accepts the real truth about their relationship and the situation, she know it will make her feel less of lady. The society as put in everyones head to be.
He tries to win over Daisy’s heart by repeating what they did in the past because he thought that’s when everything was perfect. Gatsby is too hard headed to realize that Daisy is a different person now and the circumstances are completely different. What Gatsby didn’t realize was that it was never destined for him to win over Daisy because then the pain and misery he suffered from losing her before would last much longer this time around. Jay Gatsby fails at achieving the American Dream because his mind set of trying to achieve love by repeating past actions is the reason he doesn’t win over Daisy. Gatsby’s dream is to be with Daisy, he uses his wealth, the wealth that he never has when he first met Daisy.
He has everything a person could want, yet he is still unhappy, because the one woman he wants is the one woman he can’t have. Gatsby can’t look forward and move on with his life because he can’t let go of his past. He spends his whole life pining for Daisy. He got a house across the water from hers just so he could watch her light on the dock. He made himself a rich man of high social standing, all for the sole purpose of trying desperately to win her back.
His father had told him that whenever he felt “like criticizing anyone…[to] just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (Fitzgerald 1) . In other words, his father was advising him to not look at people for what they have, rather for who they are. Having a narrator that has grown up to be disinterested unmasks the characters from all the material things. This book mainly focuses on Gatsby and his pursuit of happiness; to be reunited with his lover, Daisy. This adventure begins when Nick finds his neighbor, Gatsby, stretching “…out his arms toward…a single green light…” (20-21) in which we later find out to be the same “green light that burns all night at the end of [Daisy’s] dock” (92).
The idea of internal conflict and disguises in Twelfth Night is essentially the basis for the story. One key example for the significance of disguise is Viola. The first time the audience realizes the disguise is when Cesario (Viola) is sent out by her master Count Orsino to try to win the love of Olivia for him. This becomes extremely complicated because Viola likes Orsino and he is sending her to win over Olivia for him. This becomes an internal conflict because Cesario likes Orsino herself but she is currently disguised as a man for safety, and is trying to convince someone else to fall in love with the object of her affection.
Lieutenant Henry lies to Ms. Barkley, telling her that he loves her but she doesn’t end up really believing him anyways. Lieutenant could be getting himself into something bad for himself by saying such a thing. How is Catherine Barkley look at Lieutenant Henry when she knows that he’s lying? Catherine understands the concept that it’s impossible for one to fall in love with someone in such little time. Someone in Catherine Barkley’s situation has to be careful to get involved with someone that’s lying about their true feelings like Lieutenant Frederic
Two sorts of Hero In the Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are two sorts of heros, one is the more common hero of romance, and this type of hero is often hell-bent on a certain quest, goal, or destination. Gatsby is one such hero. The quest in his case was a romantic relationship with Daisy. Not all romantic-style heros have a final goal of romance, however. In other examples of English Literature, the romantic hero might have the goal of slaying a certain creature, or reaching a certain place.