Nightmare
It’s a bird, no it’s a plane, no it’s the great Gatsby! In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, The Great Gatsby, the reader is introduced to Jay Gatsby, whose true name is James Gatz. Gatsby is shown throughout the book as a man that many would try to imitate, a perfectionist. After seeing the well off life of the wealthy from his old friend, Dan Cody, Gatsby dedicates his life into climbing the social ladder in order to gain the wealth he fantasizes about. After reaching his goal of becoming rich, Gatsby’s search plays a key role in the reasons why he throws the most exuberant parties in West Egg. He sits and waits, watching like an eagle over his guests. Every party is thrown for a purpose, a purpose to fill the emptiness that his heart beats with. Gatsby is in the constant search for his long lost love, Daisy. Hoping and waiting that one day, Daisy will come to one of his parties, and they will be reunited.. Due to all the wealth and riches Gatsby received, he believed that he can use his money and glamorous life to persuade and cheat Daisy into reliving and recreating the love of the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald brings his real life obsessions with love into the book by living through the life of Jay Gats
After seeing that his dreams of Daisy have become nightmares, Gatsby falls as a tragic hero. Gatsby comes out about the love Daisy and him have when they are together with Tom, Nick and Jordan. Gatsby was through with playing the games and wanted Daisy to come out and tell Tom to his face that “she never loved you…she only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me…but in her heart she never loved anyone except me!” (Fitzgerald 137). Instead of what Gatsby had dreamed of, Daisy’s response was for Tom as Gatsby lost the dream he never could obtain, “so he gave that up and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room” (Fitzgerald 142). Daisy “tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion” (Meyers 127). In the end, Gatsby dies as a dignified person coming from rags to riches. After seeing that he cannot win Daisy’s love by his fortunes, Gatsby is left to himself in a pool of his thoughts: by’s obsession with Daisy. Fitzgerald was one who loved those he was with; however, it was never the same from his partner. Fitzgerald fell in love with the young sixteen-year-old, Ginevra King, and the two began to date. Fitzgerald states that even though he didn’t have the two top things—animal magnetism or money— “[he] had the two second things, tho’, good looks and intelligence. So I always got the top girl” (Meyers 28). Ginevra considered him amusing, but he was not what she wanted. She cannot even recall kissing him, or if she even did, she “just never singled him out as anything special…[she] was en
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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