A world that was like my childhood: tea parties, dances in our ballroom, circus performers coming to perform just for me.” But none of this is actually true. As Cherry reveals to Lewis towards the end of the play: “He spent most of his early life in orphanages and being farmed out to foster parents who, realizing what a nut case they had on their hands, put him back, quick smart.” Roy is delusional – but the delusions are a way of coping, of making sense of things: “Without this opera having been composed, there would be a clanging, banging, a bedlam all around us.” He is constantly critical of Lewis, belittling him as a director (“every day after rehearsals he came and complained to me about your direction,” says Justin), deriding the relationship between him and
He made himself a rich man of high social standing, all for the sole purpose of trying desperately to win her back. He only thinks of Daisy as the girl he loved years ago in Louisville, and still loves. He refuses to forget the memories that he had with Daisy before the war. He can’t accept the fact that Daisy has changed since then, and has become an uncaring person who only thinks about herself and her social position. His biggest goal in life is to win back Daisy, so he has nothing to distract himself from that problem.
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is blinded by his love for Daisy to the point that he will go to any length to protect her. His love and devotion for Daisy resulted in him overlooking the reality before him, and would ultimately get him killed. Holden Caulfield and Jay Gatsby both make the effort to generate what they have idealized in their dreams a reality, but doing so is not possible, as their realities cannot be changed. In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield struggles with accepting that what his ideals are in his life are not what actually exist in the outside world.
Dreamers often dwell on a distorted version of reality. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby devotes his adult life to pursuing his idealized love, Daisy, before realizing that he can not go back in time to restart their relationship and that his dream was destroyed by reality years ago. Gatsby’s initial warped perception of reality morphs into an eventual epiphany that his idealized dreams are unrealistic. Each time Gatsby is faced with the possibility that his dream may not be attainable, he persists in believing in and pushing for it, all the while growing toward the realization that he cannot attain Daisy, swaying alternately between utter disappointment and sheer joy. Gatsby’s growing disappointment throughout the novel stems from uncomfortable encounters with Daisy as well as interactions with Daisy that do not live up to his idealized dreams.
In order to be successful in life, and to be achieve overall happiness, then one must have a grand house, fancy clothes, and other such material goods. Daisy cries to Gatsby, a man who has such glorious material goods, that “they’re such beautiful shirts…it makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before” (Fitzgerald 92). Myrtle Wilson is another version of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby; Myrtle only wants to increase her social class. Tom Buchanan’s American Dream is to have complete power over everything, and to obtain all that he can—money, success, family, even though he already has all of them, he needs more. To do so, Myrtle and Tom Buchanan have an affair, that help them both in reaching their individual American Dreams, Myrtle by being with a man from a higher class, and Tom by having another woman in his life.
The Theme of Conformity In The Great Gatsby by, F. Scott Fitzgerald, conformity is brought on by Daisy. In those days, men were still seen as superior to women. She mentioned that she felt it was better to be a beautiful fool and get the man with all the wealth, then to be intelligent. She pretends to be a picture perfect wife even when she is completely unhappy with her life and ends up forgetting whom she really was before, therefore conforming to society. We could see that she has attributes that go beyond what everyone else sees.
Gatsby is a very sentimental man; it’s shown though his name. If Gatsby didn’t want to keep a part of his old identity he would of completely invented a new identity, but instead Gatsby just changes his name from James Gatz to jay Gatsby the names are roughly the same. However the main part of how Gatsby is sentimental is how he wont let go of his past with daisy. Gatsby is determined to rekindle his love with daisy just how it was before “‘cant repeat the past? He cried incredulously.
“People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.” This quotation by Florence King elucidates how this “dream” is not as fancy as it may seem from the outside. A multitude of people believe that by following the American Dream, happiness and fate will automatically collide and the negatives of this world will fade away. F. Scott Fitzgerald implies in his literary work The Great Gatsby that he, too, believes the pursuit of the American Dream will not always end the way it is predicted. Jay Gatsby, the main character of this novel, proves this implication.
The green light at the end of Daisy's dock represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future. Daisy and Tom’s marriage is proof of the fall of the American dream. Even though they belong to the West Egg social group and have a lot of wealth, they are unhappy. Tom and Daisy are both unsatisfied with life and are searching for something better. For example, Tom cheats on Daisy with Myrtle.
Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan. “ Gatsby cannot tell his dreams; every attempt he makes to describe his love for Daisy collapses into benality, and yet we no more doubt the reality of Gatsby’s passion for Daisy than we doubt the terrible authenticity of the dying Keat’s intense desire for Fanny Brawne.” ( Bloom 7) Gatsby purchased a mansion in West Egg. West Egg is known as “new