The Great Gatsby Reality
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American masterpiece, The Great Gatsby is not a love story between two people as most would think; it’s more of a love story between a character and the characters American Dream. This 1920 style novel is set upon characters that are so caught up in a mental dream the reality sets back in and kicks them in the face. Jay Gatsby, a man with a mysterious past suddenly swoops in and has intentions to win back a long lost love, Daisy Buchanan with the help of his lower class neighbor, Nick Caraway. The characters in The Great Gatsby have dreams that they believe is achievable but in the face of reality, Nick Carraway, Daisy and Tom Buchanan, and Jay Gatsby show that it is really impossible. Nick Carraway is a man with
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Gatsby’s life revolved around having anything and everything nice enough to impress one person, Daisy Buchanan. “Gatsby believed he could win Daisy by the possessions he owned” (Taylor 3). Apart from Daisy, Gatsby tried to impress everyone else by giving false stories about his past just to make him seem “worthy” enough. Gatsby had been so caught up in a dream that he had failed to realize the reality of the past and that he wouldn’t be able to change that. “Gatsby’s idea of the American Dream is doomed because he tries to buy his way into a society that will never accept him” (Taylor 1). Jay Gatsby died saving the one that meant most to him without even realizing it. He died in shock wondering why even after all the effort with his love and money Daisy had still choose her safe reputation over her real love for …show more content…
The major reality in this novel is that Gatsby dream will never come true; his love Daisy Buchanan will always go back to her safe place and history will always be around. Gatsby couldn’t change Daisy’s history, and the reality of that will always find its way back. “This ‘ash heap’ is the present, the terrible time where The Great Gatsby takes place- a time which all hope is lost for the future, and Gatsby’s sacred green light becomes nothing more than a light at the end of Daisy’s dock” (Millett
Gatsby’s life revolved around having anything and everything nice enough to impress one person, Daisy Buchanan. “Gatsby believed he could win Daisy by the possessions he owned” (Taylor 3). Apart from Daisy, Gatsby tried to impress everyone else by giving false stories about his past just to make him seem “worthy” enough. Gatsby had been so caught up in a dream that he had failed to realize the reality of the past and that he wouldn’t be able to change that. “Gatsby’s idea of the American Dream is doomed because he tries to buy his way into a society that will never accept him” (Taylor 1). Jay Gatsby died saving the one that meant most to him without even realizing it. He died in shock wondering why even after all the effort with his love and money Daisy had still choose her safe reputation over her real love for …show more content…
The major reality in this novel is that Gatsby dream will never come true; his love Daisy Buchanan will always go back to her safe place and history will always be around. Gatsby couldn’t change Daisy’s history, and the reality of that will always find its way back. “This ‘ash heap’ is the present, the terrible time where The Great Gatsby takes place- a time which all hope is lost for the future, and Gatsby’s sacred green light becomes nothing more than a light at the end of Daisy’s dock” (Millett