He cheats on her, and when she finds out, it seems he could not care less. But Daisy cannot even leave him because she is too scared, and has no one to run to. Through Daisy’s situation, Fitzgerald is expressing that even when people are treated horribly, they still rely on wealth and high status. Even in society today, we see people deteriorating because of their goals to meet society’s standards. The neglect from her husband causes Daisy to wilt, much like the flower if it were treated harshly.
And although Gatsby’s profound love for Daisy, told through the eyes of the narrator, Nick, is a major subject in The Great Gatsby, it is merely a subscript to the main theme carried throughout the entire book. This book focuses on the idea of the American Dream, but even more so, Fitzgerald uses Gatsby as a way to critique the American Dream. First of all, it is important to understand what the American Dream is. The American Dream says that anyone can succeed in life. Anyone who works hard, and pursues the ultimate goal of happiness, can, and will, live a fulfilling life.
He felt his whole life turn, like a river suddenly reversing the direction of its flow, suddenly running uphill. These revelations struck at the core of Chris' sense of identity. They made his entire childhood seem like fiction.” * “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation” * “We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.” * “Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.” * “Why would I want a new car? / are you worried what the neighbours might think?” * ”And now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security of parents
Ultimately, these characteristics cost him his life. Firstly, Romeo has demonstrated that he’s very impulsive throughout the entire play. From the moment he spoke to the moment he killed himself. For example, right after the party Romeo, most likely without thinking, went to go see Juliet. If he never went to go see her then they wouldn’t have gotten married, and they would both be alive.
Her husband then murders Gatsby. Being murdered is Gatsby’s fate, and it shows that his dream cannot be accomplished. As hard as he tried, he could never accomplish his goal. He couldn't call Daisy his own and Tom stays with her. Gatsby tried as hard as he could.
In my essay I will analyse a selection of the most important symbols used by Fitzgerald and explain why they are effective. The most obvious, and perhaps the most important symbol in the novel, is the famous ‘green light’. The green light resides at the end of Daisy’s dock and shines out across the bay to West Egg, visible from Gatsby’s house. The green light represents more than one idea, one of which being the idea that the light symbolises Gatsby’s dream. All Gatsby wants is to realise the American Dream, a concept desired by most Americans in the 1920s, and all he needs to do that is to win Daisy.
He is later killed by a man who is sent by Tom. Towards the end of the novel, Nick runs into them as they are leaving for a long vacation, and finally realizes how truly ruthless and greedy Tom and Daisy are: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...” (Fitzgerald, 179). Nick doesn’t seem to have any desire to talk to them again, due to what they had done to Gatsby. He also doesn’t think it is fair of Daisy to, after all that Gatsby had gone through to show Daisy that he loved her, she wanted absolutely nothing to do with him after his death. She did not so much as send flowers or a sympathy card.
He tells Nick, "'Can’t repeat the past…Why of course you can!’”(110). Gatsby’s dream never could be fulfilled no matter how hard he tried. He was so involved in his dreams that he did not know what to do other than to try to win her back. When he finally met with Daisy and she shows some affection he is in shock. “Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her.
When Gatsby and Daisy reunite and begin having an affair, Gatsby fires all of his housekeepers and servants and remains by himself or with Daisy to avoid the exposure of information. Because Gatsby tries so hard to keep the aspects of his true life a secret, he gets caught up in the secrecy and morality of the entire situation, ultimately losing sight of his ultimate goal because he created a person he could never be, to try and be part of a lifestyle he could never live up
The American Dream all the characters are chasing is ruined by reality of life. Gatsby dream involves him falling in love with Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby feared that Daisy did not wait for him because he was not rich. That’s why Gatsby did crime to get rich. Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan.