The Great Gatsby Quote Analysis
In life, the way a person is raised reflects their future self. When you earn money by hard work you learn to respect others and the true value of money. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a mysterious character who comes off as one person, but is someone completely different. He encounters battles with love and develops his only real relationship with Nick, who stays with him through everything. Gatsby is a materialistic, corrupt racketeer whose immorality leads him to his untimely/imminent demise.
Gatsby has this extreme idealism that he bases his life off of and when he comes back to reality he faces struggles in the real world. After being brought up in a rough and poor family, Gatsby sees Dan Cody, a millionaire, …show more content…
While Gatsby had been waiting for Daisy after the war, Daisy had moved on. When Gatsby’s name was brought back up to Daisy she hesitated and said, “in the strangest voice that it must be the man she used to know”(Fitzgerald 77). This line is crucial because of how much it says about how Daisy really felt about Gatsby. It is now shown that she nearly forgot about him and was practically careless about Gatsby and what he had to offer. But, he was so stuck in the thought that what happened once can happen again that he did not care whether she still cared about him or not. He said, “Can’t repeat the past?...Why of course you can!”(Fitzgerald 110). He was stuck in the past and was not going to let it go until he got Daisy back. This leads him to being responsible for his own death because he once again could not see that this was never going to come true and the past can not always be repeated.It is also mentioned that “He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock” (Fitzgerald 92). What went wrong for Gatsby is he was focused on the people making a negative impact on his life. Daisy did not nearly as much care about Gatsby as he did for her and if Gatsby had recognized that, he could had realized that he deserved someone better and could have avoided his death and all the events leading up to it. As Gatsby continues to fantasize over Daisy, he creates an illusion and it is said of him that, “ Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us”(Fitzgerald 180). Staying positive, he puts all of his energy into getting back what he and Daisy used to have. He is again trying to take what is a fantasy and make it real which he can not do. Towards the end of the
Gatsby has this extreme idealism that he bases his life off of and when he comes back to reality he faces struggles in the real world. After being brought up in a rough and poor family, Gatsby sees Dan Cody, a millionaire, …show more content…
While Gatsby had been waiting for Daisy after the war, Daisy had moved on. When Gatsby’s name was brought back up to Daisy she hesitated and said, “in the strangest voice that it must be the man she used to know”(Fitzgerald 77). This line is crucial because of how much it says about how Daisy really felt about Gatsby. It is now shown that she nearly forgot about him and was practically careless about Gatsby and what he had to offer. But, he was so stuck in the thought that what happened once can happen again that he did not care whether she still cared about him or not. He said, “Can’t repeat the past?...Why of course you can!”(Fitzgerald 110). He was stuck in the past and was not going to let it go until he got Daisy back. This leads him to being responsible for his own death because he once again could not see that this was never going to come true and the past can not always be repeated.It is also mentioned that “He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock” (Fitzgerald 92). What went wrong for Gatsby is he was focused on the people making a negative impact on his life. Daisy did not nearly as much care about Gatsby as he did for her and if Gatsby had recognized that, he could had realized that he deserved someone better and could have avoided his death and all the events leading up to it. As Gatsby continues to fantasize over Daisy, he creates an illusion and it is said of him that, “ Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us”(Fitzgerald 180). Staying positive, he puts all of his energy into getting back what he and Daisy used to have. He is again trying to take what is a fantasy and make it real which he can not do. Towards the end of the