As Gatsby puts his dream onto something unworthy (Daisy), his dream becomes less important as time progresses because it gets more and more unattainable. He puts so much stress on what he wants Daisy to be, rather than what she is, creating an infatuation in the idea of her, rather than the reality of her. Even Nick doesn’t believe Gatsby truly loves her anymore, stating that “he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.” (Fitzgerald 110)His hopes spread past reality and reason. At one point, Gatsby believes he can repeat the past (Fitzgerald 110) and get Daisy back. Gatsby sacrifices everything he is, and completely changes himself for Daisy.
92). Nick explains that Gatsby’s imagination of the great things that may become of their relationship surpasses the reality of anything achievable. One of Nick’s expectations is that Daisy confesses to Tom (her husband), that she has never loved him; something she cannot say as it is untrue. She had loved Tom at one point, so she could not say it. Gatsby takes Daisy and they leave the apartment where the argument is taking place.
As this chapter goes on, Gatsby realizes that he and Daisy will never be together. Gatsby tried to give Daisy everything he thought she wanted in when reality, it was what he wanted. This song shows how Gatsby tired but ended up ruining his life instead. Chapter 8- "Heartless"- Kanye West. As the story begins to end, Daisy gives up all hope and thoughts of Gatsby, She puts him aside forever.
This narrow view of Gatsby’s carries over to his first encounter with Daisy. Because of his time apart from her, his expectations had grown to an unobtainable amount. Fitzgerald created a dream-oriented character in how he obsessed over every detail of their meeting. This reality could not meet Gatsby’s expectations leading to a small but evident change in Gatsby. “He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it through to the end…Now in the reaction he was running down like an overwound clock” (Fitzgerald 92).
Even though they have been together in the past, the fact that they are not together at the time of the story shows how their relationship must have failed and therefore love is seen as unobtainable. He seems to place Daisy so high on a pedestal that she is in a way already unreachable. He loves her so much, with so much passion, worked so hard to be up to her standards (bought the house, throws all these parties…). However, she has never turned up to any of his parties or shown any interest in a certain Gatsby showing that love is unobtainable. Jordan mentions to Nick that “he half expected her to wander into one of his parties but she never did, then he began asking people casually if they knew her”.
NOSTALGIA Throughout the novel, Erica’s nostalgia towards Chris is so strong that she then lacks in life. She cannot be intimate with Changez unless he pretends to be Chris. This nostalgia consumes her until eventually, she retreats so far on her own that she can no longer function in society. Erica’s nostalgia is represented as a sickness that overwhelms both body and mind. Erica’s nostalgia also reflects the United States’ own idea with the past after September 11.
He is never satisfied with what he has and once he acquires what he wants he moves onto another dream. Such as after he changes his name and starts a new exciting life he dreams of being rich and powerful, then his dream is to win over a lost love and even after he has won over Daisy he still wants more from her which she is incapable of giving. Through Jay Gatsby’s tragic story, Fitzgerald is suggesting that the American Dream is unattainable if rooted in greed. Hickey suggests that he is also implying a warning to not future generations, “The Great Gatsby might be interpreted as a warning not only to Fitzgerald’s generation but to future generations as well. Beware of pursuing that “orgiastic future” with too much fervor; one might well be destroyed by it, just as Gatsby is.” (Hickey
Gatsby throughout the book becomes entirely delusional with the thought of Daisy. All through the book Gatsby’s obsession starts to drive him far away from reality once Daisy starts to becomes more and more of an aspiration of his greedy heart. Gatsby does not show Daisy love by what he can give to her but by trying to make her like a possession of his. As the book goes on Jay seems to notice that his Daisy is not responding to him like the way that he thought she would and this just makes everything worse. One example of pathos is a quote from the story “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.
In the Gatsby the theme of alienation and isolation was reinforced in the climax of the novel when Gatsby passes an inability to leave behind a fragile relationship which he once had with the character Daisy. The Great Gatsby is constantly being narrated by Nick Caraway also a protagonist in the Gatsby. Nick associates daisy with materialist things such as money and the “Blinding Signs” of New York, however Gatsby realises that this relationship “fell to pieces like snow” with daisy and that it could never be anything more. The reader becomes aware that this relationship between Gatsby and Daisy is not love just materialisation and
Gatsby may have been so close to achieving his dream, but failed because the dream he had was false. The idea that time will never run out to obtain a dream is the reason why dreams aren’t reached. In the short story “Winter Dreams” time slows down and becomes apparent to Dexter about Judy. After Judy leaves Dexter seems too careless about her and care more about the women he is about to marry. When Judy re-enters Dexter’s life at the party time slows down and becomes dream like.