Gatsby wanted this life since he was a kid. He also wants the girl of his dreams, Daisy, in his life, only he can’t have her because she is in love with Tom. Gatsby makes Daisy a symbol of everything he wants because of her beauty, wealth, and worry-less attitude. There are also small symbols and themes in the story as well. The color of daisy’s white dress, for example, sets the mood for the scene.
As Daisy chooses to leave Gatsby, his dream would follow Daisy leaving him with nothing. The word “nothing” shows exactly what the American Dream represents in this novel, the bareness of the American Dream. Even Daisy knows that she “tumbled short of his dreams” (101). Gatsby’s dream would never be reached, Gatsby would always fall short of everything he desires concluding that the American Dream is
Although she has moved on, he has not. In fact, the sole purpose of purchasing his mansion was to be closer to Daisy in hopes of just seeing her. Sadly, Daisy eventually goes back to Tom and leaves Gatsby broken and in pieces, but still not giving up on his one dream. At the end of the novel, Nick speculates that "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us"(189) as if this was Gatsby's only motivational force. Green, is actually the color of hope, but also the color of money.
Also if the character Jay Gatsby did not have a talent for self-invention he would not have his quality of “greatness”, which is why the novel is call ‘The Great Gatsby’. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther….And then one fine
However Paul doesn’t want his mother to know he is lucky, so Oscar and Paul cover it up by saying a relative has passed away and that is her inheritance money. By the time her birthday comes around, Paul starts getting anxious and excited to see how his mother reacts to the surprise but is disappointed to find that she doesn’t react at all to Paul's surprise. Ultimately, the toy rocking horse is a great symbol for the pursuit of love through money. Paul rode the horse to
After seeing Gatsby’s dream be fall to pieces, Nick feels the consequences will be the same for him. Even though many failed to grasp the dream, many still exert themselves to achieve it. “ Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.” ( Fitzgerald 115) Even though our dreams seem to fall apart, we have a tendency to keep on trying. We also convince ourselves that one day we will consume that dream.
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). Readers will soon find out that Gatsby and Daisy were in love when they were both young, but he had “taken her under false pretenses,” (149) lying to her about his financial situation. Because he couldn’t support her, he worked his way up through shady business deals, obsessing over that moment when he would finally be able to get Daisy back, reliving his happiness with her. Once he finally made his fortune he eventually met up with Daisy one afternoon, thanks to Nick. According to Nick there were moments for Gatsby “that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams because of the colossal vitality of his illusion” (95).
No one understands these odd actions, but what he really is doing is checking if Daisy happens to be there, because she is all he cares about. It is obvious that Daisy motivates Gatsby’s actions when Jordan explains “Gatsby bought that house so Daisy would be just across the bay” (Fitzgerald 78). Gatsby’s intensions of buying his mansion were, again, in order to impress Daisy. Gatsby’s desire for wealth includes having Daisy, which is why he does all of these actions to impress her and to gain her back, because once he has Daisy he will be happy. Gatsby is under the impression that if he and Daisy are reunited, that she will automatically fall in love with him and everything will be how he wanted it.
She married for love, and the love turned to dust. She had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them.” Even though she has everything she needs, a stable family and enough money to support her needs, she still wants more. She says that she is “very unlucky” because she “married an unlucky husband”. Instead of taking the responsibility upon herself that she is unlucky and does not have everything she wants, she blames others for her lack of happiness. In the end she turns out to be the luckiest character in the story because with Paul’s luck she gains all of the money he won.
She has a child which is never around. Daisy said “I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful fool.” (Fitzgerald, 22) She rather wanted to have a boy. When Daisy married Tom all she wanted was love but ended up with just money. Daisy realized if she has married Gatsby she wouldn’t have just married for money.