Gatsby did it all for Daisy. He lost his true self to become someone that Daisy would love. The only reason she ever could of thought she loved him was because she believed that he was successful and rich. She is incapable of really loving anyone when all she wants are the finer things in life. All he wanted was to win Daisy.
In the song, “I Have A Dream,” Common sings “In search of brighter days, I ride through the maze of madness.” The same thing can be said by Gatsby as he pursues his own American dream. Gatsby’s dream is to be with Daisy, who is married to Tom. Gatsby gets so caught up in getting Daisy, he lets her take advantage of him, which eventually leads to Gatsby’s murder. Gatsby’s American dream faintly exists, however Gatsby’s corrupted views on his social standings diminishes any chance he has with Daisy. Gatsby’s American dream, which was almost impossible to achieve, faintly existed.
Rather spend; he is greedy, not even spending money for electricity at his workplace but rather working with candles during the night. What Dickens presents and commentates on is even though the upper class has it all, they rather seem to be stingy and greedy, not wanting to share their wealth, not wanting to give for the better. Not wanting to do so only creates a bad reputation for the upper class. On the other hand, Tiny Tim, and his family have close to nothing at all, only to be more giving and wanting than the upper class fellows. Dickens demonstrations here that Tiny Tim is the most vulnerable of all the lower class yet he is one of the most giving and happy members of the lower class, which puts shame on Scrooge and his fellow upper class men.
With West Egg, the home of Gatsby, being across the bay of East Egg there is a clear view of a bright green light coming from the Buchanan’s dock. The bright green light represents a clouded future, and Gatsby also “believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” (149). But the green light also embodies Gatsby's delusion of Daisy and their romantic past that he wants back more than anything. Gatsby “wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy” and he became so desperate that “his life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was” (125). He lost himself when he lost Daisy so he franticly tried to get what he had with her back.
Gatsby believes that if he reaches the “green light” than he and Daisy will be together just like in the past. When Gatsby reaches the light, in other words Daisy’s dock, he still continues to struggle, which reveals that putting hope into an inanimate object that a long lost dream will come true is just futile. But even after this, he continues too have faith that there might still be a chance for them to get back together. By putting so much faith in past love life, it leaves him unaware of the terrible tragedy that lies ahead of
His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one” (Fitzgerald 93).Good quote.Make the point that he gets close to his dream, but can’t quite reach it. Why? Gatsby moved as close as possible to Daisy, and yet one can see it is not close enough for him, for he is praising the green light the represents Daisy, he is drawn to it, obsessed with it. Although he has become very close to fulfilling his dream, he cannot reach it
He did this by throwing amazing parties, full of people he did not know, all in hopes that by chance Daisy would decide to join and come to one. Green, while representing hope, can also represent rebirth. Green trees that have been that have looked as though they carry no life through winter; always refurbish themselves with green blossoms that show rebirth. When Gatsby stared off into the distance at the green light on Daisy's pier across the lake, he was hoping for the renewing or rebirth of their old relationship. He constantly denies himself from believing that the fire between them has died, never losing hope.
The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the story of a man named Jay Gatsby whose dream is to be with Daisy Buchanan. Early in the novel, the reader's first glimpse of Jay Gatsby is him reaching out for a green light on Daisy's dock. Across the bay, Daisy strives for perfections in her life. The only way Gatsby can win Daisy's love and part of her life is to gain wealth. Sadly, Daisy nor Gatsby achieve their desires.
Gatsby lived his American dream and in the end found his heart flooded with the power of love and its remarkable betrayal. In time, the clothes we decide to wear, or the objects we put faith into are but beautiful masks covering broken creatures. The desires Gatsby longs for, force him to remember the past in the hope of strengthening the dimming light of Daisy’s love. Gatsby’s life gives way to circumstances that connect two separate ideas in ways least expected. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the morals of people are challenged through the use of flashbacks, symbolism, irony, syntax, and diction in order to depict the dissimilarities of the social classes.
In Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”, the green light on the Buchanan dock is used to reflect Gatsby’s unattainable love for Daisy. Throughout the novel Fitzgerald shows that Jay Gatsby loves Daisy, and is hope to one day be with Daisy is signified with the green light. Essentially, Gatsby has to get to the light to achieve his goal, which is to be with Daisy. Gatsby’s goal come down to location, Daisy’s house and her dock was located right by the sea. As Nick said on pg 25, Gatsby always was looking at the light.