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.
He always had some resolves like this or something’”(173). Gatsby works and works for his wealth, his whole life spent in a quest for monetary success and eventually Daisy after “he wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath”(110). And although he has these things for a small amount of time, it is important to look at the situation after Gatsby is killed. One of the most important factors of his funeral is that: “Nobody came”(174). He did not truly make any friends through his wealth, and his money is no use to him now that he is dead.
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, jay Gatsby has come to the conclusion that money can get him anything he wants. To Gatsby, when it comes down to his love for Daisy Buchanan he does anything to gain riches so she will love him. Gatsby’s main goal in life is to have Daisy, but he doesn’t realize that she doesn’t feel the same way, and that he can’t just “buy” her. Gatsby’s attitude changes throughout the book, at first he acts like a rich man with nothing to spend his money on, but when there is a chance he could get Daisy back he changes drastically. Overall Daisy Buchanan is what motivates Jay Gatsby’s actions and causes mayhem in his life.
The most prominent aspect of realism in the novel is Gatsby realizing he will never be with Daisy. The realism aspect of Daisy and Gatsby’s relationship is focused on the reasons why they can’t be with each other, mainly due to the fact that there is a feud between Tom and Gatsby. Also, the morose details of what Gatsby did to achieve his American Dream contribute to realism of this story. Gatsby’s American Dream involves him self-improving in order to become rich and successful, also slightly notorious, just so he can get noticed by the love of his life. Gatsby thinks by accomplishing his American Dream, he can marry the girl of his dreams.
When Fitzgerald envisions, “however glorious might be his future… he was at present a penniless young man without a past…” (149). Gatsby’s future may be fancy and “glorious,” but at the current point in the novel, Fitzgerald’s description of Gatsby as “penniless” implies that he is currently poor and depressed. The illusion that wealth brings happiness consumes him, causing Gatsby’s desire for wealth to overshadow all other aspects of his life, including his family. Later on in the novel, during the flashback to when Gatsby and Daisy first meet, Fitzgerald describes Daisy’s house which “had always seemed to him more mysterious and gay than other houses, so his idea of the city itself… pervaded with a melancholy beauty” (152). Fitzgerald compares Gatsby’s desire for a warm home to the depressing
During The Great Gatsby, Gatsby makes a large fortune for him self; he was kind of selfish he can do what he wanted. Gatsby, he created who he is for the sole purpose of gaining daisy's love, therefore, he doesn’t have the class or stile where he from (east egg). He looks great from the outside but on the inside he is an ordinary man, not the theatrical "Great Gatsby." Tom believes himself to be higher than everyone else, which is why he fails to keep his affair with Myrtle more discreet. Tom has no goals or dreams like Gatsby, and also he is an arrogant egotistical and limited man.
When he returned to his beloved Daisy, she had broken her promise and married a wealthy man as well as had a child. The person Daisy pretends to be is pure and beautiful but to the reader she is naive and too loyal for her
This shows that she is only with him for his money and power. When Daisy gave birth to Pammy she 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 little fool.”(Fitzgerald 21).She implies here that the world is no place for a woman and all she can do is hope to survive through beauty rather than brains. However during the reunion Gatsby is still blinded by his dream. Even though Daisy isn’t the same as he remembers.
Walter Younger described how much he longed to be a part of the “American Dream”. His tone throughout the book suggested that he was disgusted with his lifestyle but very passionate about doing whatever it took to be well off and accepted by society so that his family wouldn’t have to struggle and be an example to his son of what a man should do for his family. Money probably meant the most to Walter because that’s all he talked about from the time he woke up at the start of the play until the end after he refuses Mr. Linder’s money. Walter works as a chauffeur for a rich white man making very little money leaving him feeling less
The Great Gatsby is a book not only of love but also tragedy that leads back to ideas and dreams, but never reality. Jay Gatsby is a man of great wealth, and greater ambition. The Great Gatsby has many disguises that play a major role in several characters’ lives, but, most importantly, in Gatsby’s own. Jay Gatsby believes that he can get whatever he wants, even Daisy Buchanan, with his wealth. He has succeeded in getting money and living a life of luxury, but ultimately, he is never truly rich.