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Gatsby’s Nature

Gatsby’s motivation comes from a love, deeply rooted within him, for Daisy. Also, throughout the book Fitzgerald keeps Gatsby an isolated character by his innocent approach to life’s problems. This same type of innocence gives the book a bit of light in the gloominess of all the problems occurring.

First of all Gatsby’s motivation is pretty obvious, Daisy. Other factors, like being fairly poor growing up or seeing Don Cody’s extravagant wealth may have played their parts in Gatsby’s desire for fortune. But for the most part Gatsby feels he has to exert himself to be everything that is above and beyond to win Daisy. All the extravagant parties he throws, his Rols Royce which Nick calls an “omnibus” for bringing people to his parties, he does all this just so Daisy might be caught in the web of it all. He has no desire to make himself known at his parties, he has no greedy self interest to better his image, and he even lets people meander with seem


Innocence, this is a certain something Gatsby has that no other character possesses. Gatsby seems to be blind to the horribleness of reality throughout the book. He goes so far to say to Nick, “Can’t repeat the past… of course you can!” The black and white childishness of this statement reveals just how simple Gatsby’s ideals are. Before the war, he and Daisy we’re passionately in love, though the only thing keeping them apart was the fact that Gatsby wouldn’t be able to provide the means for which Daisy lived and would have to continue living. So it just makes perfect sense now that he has fortune, their love should be no less than perfect, and being just that they should be together just as before. He seems to forget the fact that she has a daughter she couldn’t possibly leave and crude husband who will be damned before he lets a, “nobody from nowhere,” whisk his wife away.

This kind of ignorance allows Gatsby’s character to give the

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