The arrogance and antipathetic aristocracy with ‘old money’ would never truly accept anyone who wasn’t born into wealth. Gatsby wasted his energy on a false promise of happiness and wealth, trying to win the heart of a woman who was materialistic, shallow and empty “his dream must have seemed so close”. Gatsby, believed in his future dream and love, he “believed in the green light, the orgastic future” but he became disillusioned “He did not know that it was already behind him.” In the end Gatsby died trying to grasp the American dream, pursuing happiness, wealth and love. Fitzgerald purposefully constructs Gatsby demonstrate the tragic outcome of someone who struggles to gain the dream with virtuous intent but becomes
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
But in the end this wealth causes problems amongst the characters. Wealth corrupts, destroys morality, and negatively affects Gatsby, Daisy, Wolfsheim, Wilson, Tom, Myrtle and party goers. Gatsby’s desire to have Daisy affects him negatively. Before the war Gatsby loves Daisy and Daisy loves Gatsby. But Daisy says that “rich girls don’t marry poor boys” this leads for Gatsby to do anything to acquire wealth so that he can have Daisy.
Gatsby wants to experience everything he missed when he could not be with her. The only problem is Gatsby wants Daisy to leave her husband for him. He dreams of being with and marrying her. He thinks that Daisy has only ever loved him, “She never loved you, do you hear…She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me…but in her heart she never loved any one except me!” (Fitzgerald, 131). He is expecting Daisy to
92). Nick explains that Gatsby’s imagination of the great things that may become of their relationship surpasses the reality of anything achievable. One of Nick’s expectations is that Daisy confesses to Tom (her husband), that she has never loved him; something she cannot say as it is untrue. She had loved Tom at one point, so she could not say it. Gatsby takes Daisy and they leave the apartment where the argument is taking place.
People have lost their own ability to determine what they want and have succumbed to society’s great pressure that money is the answer to everything. As a result, citizens became willing to do anything to chase wealth. Gatsby chases the same dream for too long, becoming an illegal bootlegger who hides behind a façade along the way, while similarly, the general public fails to realize a whole life of hard work does not guarantee wealth and happiness. The corrupt American Dream is just an illusion that the people of the 1920s are victims of because it is impossible to achieve. In the end, both Gatsby and the American people of the 1920s wear themselves out pursuing false hopes that they thought were
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.
In fact, his American Dream is a baseless fantasy because of social inequality and his attempt to recreate the past. His objective was nothing more than Daisy, a woman he claims to have "a voice full of money" (115) Gatsby's has placed his faith in the wrong place, no different from the East Egger's obsession with material wealth. Gatsby exemplifies the death of the American Dream through his involvement with bootlegging and his attempt to steal another man's wife. In the novel, all the people with no morality have towering wealth. This contradicts the real American Dream where money is awarded for hard work and
When daisy left Gatsby she married a very wealthy man, tom Buchanan, and has a girl with him. Even though daisy was married Gatsby still went for daisy, and they started having an affair. Gatsby goal was to get daisy back no matter the cost, and also to break the relationship between her and tom. Gatsby wanted nothing less of daisy than that she go to tom and say. “I never loved you”… after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house just as if it were five years ago (Fitzgerald 125) Gatsby didn’t know when to move on.
“...he was consumed with wonder at her presence… he was running down like an over-wound clock” (92) Gatsby’s love for Daisy was succorded by his deception of her image. This quote compares Gatsby to an overwound clock because Gatsby wants to ignore the lapse of time where they were separated and wants to have it revert back to when they loved each other in Louisville. Once Gatsby realized he had succeeded in acquiring his dream of Daisy’s affection, he no longer had the vitality of his allusion for what life could be with