Jay Gatsby was a man who became trapped by his own dream and received in life what he deserved. Upon meeting Daisy, a beautiful women born rich they had an affair. Gatsby know he couldn’t live up to her expectations of the life style she was accustomed to for he lacked wealth. Gatsby became a man who inspired himself to achieve to be among the American rich society and win the love of Daisy. He was not
Unrequited love is a kind of love that can't be reciprocated or returned, even though it's usually desired. In the novel, one of the major characters, Jay Gatsby, has this sort of romance towards his old flame, Daisy Buchanan. When he went off to war, even though Daisy promised to wait for him, she couldn't and married Tom. Gatsby was poor and Daisy wanted more, desperate for affection. When Gatsby returned home, he did whatever he could to win Daisy's heart back and earned money and riches.
Jay Gatsby was a poor boy that turned into a very wealthy man, but did he live the American Dream? Money is actually the only thing that Gatsby had a lot of. Jay Gatsby tries to live the life of The American Dream, but fails in his battle. Gatsby certainly lacks many of the qualities and fails many of the tests normally linked with greatness, but he redeems this by his exalted conception of himself. Today society sets their goals by planning the future
He was a flashy celebrity who obtained wealth to impress the girl he loved most, Daisy. He fell in love with Daisy while he was a young solider, but when he went off to war they eventually split. When he came back to the United States, he finds that Daisy is married to another man, Tom, and figures the only way he can win her heart back is to become rich. He threw extraordinary parties to show off and
The wearing of the “gold hat” seems to be a metaphorical way of wearing his new found wealth. Although at first it seems as if Gatsby is trying to show off all of his wealth to Daisy and how well he has done by himself without her, but he is actually on a mission to gain her affection and love and the only way he knows how to accomplish his mission is by wearing his “gold hat”. In the second line of the epigraph Gatsby is told to “bounce high”, which could mean if he can earn lots of money and give himself a high status then he should aim for her as well. The next line of the epigraph states “Gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover” which shows the reader Gatsby’s relationship with a woman who is the love of his life and the person who he is trying to impress throughout the book by earning lots of money. This woman is Daisy.
Luke Troutman Mrs. B.L. Honors English III September 30, 2008 Wealth Overcomes Love In The Great Gatsby; Tom, Daisy, and Myrtle’s desire for wealth prohibits them from developing substantial relationships. Living a lavish lifestyle, with constant happiness keeps them from actually loving a person for who they are, not how they live. This shows a want for happiness in men, or women, and how they forget about love to obtain happiness and worldly possessions. Since he was a child Tom had always been wealthy acquiring everything he desired causing him to act childishly always wanting his way and to become wealthier.
The only reason Daisy stays is for Tom's money. The only thing that brought the two together was “their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together.”(Fitzgerald 180) Due to being wealthy, Daisy gains the rich title. Although she never had the same feelings she did for Tom that she had for Gatsby. The letter that Gatsby wrote made her “change' her mine.”(Fitzgerald 74) But due to her desire for money, Daisy changed her decision and marries Tom “Next day at five o'clock”(Fitzgerald 75) Money was the essential item that helped Daisy change her decision due to Gatsby not having what Tom had at the time. During one of Gatsby's parties, Daisy connects with Nick, and she makes a statement saying how “These things excite me”(Fitzgerald 105) explicitly stating how she loves events such as parties.
People began using money to strengthen their power. The original focus of money stats eyed deteriorating fast. Gatsby decided to retrieve money illegally all for one purpose. His focus was not on wealth, social class and the finer things in life but how all of his wealth intrigued Daisy. Daisy took advantage of Gatsby, led him on and in the end she showed her true colors.
Gatsby says, “I can’t say anything in his house, old sport” (?). Gatsby does have money, but it isn’t the kind that allows him into Daisy’s world. Tom knows that his wealth gives him a lot of power and influence and this is what lures Daisy into marrying him. In describing Tom’s wealth Nick says,” His family was enormously wealthy- even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach” (6). This wealth and power makes him believe he should get whomever he chooses.
However Gatsby always wanted to be a rich man, it's just he became more motivated in acquiring his fortune for his love Daisy. Therefore his dream cannot be souly based on Daisy, as Daisy was only his motivation. Gatsby is introduced into the novel later, and is spoken and gossiped about earlier on in the novel, this makes him seem more of a mystery. As Gatsby is presented, he is reveal to be an innocent, hopeful young man who stakes everything on his dreams, not realizing that his dreams are unworthy of him. Gatsby invest Daisy with idealistic perfection that she cannot possibly attain in reality and pursues her with a passionate zeal that blinds him to her limitations.