The Great and Pitiful Gatsby

Gatsby fit’s the role of the tragic protagonist almost perfectly. He is an upper class man who has fallen deeply into the American dream of material possessions. Although Gatsby represented all that most people don’t like; the rich criminal who will not take a step back and look at the situation he is in. We still are able to realize that he is good at heart, unlike the group of people he hung around. “’They’re a rotten crowd… You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.’” From things that are said throughout the story and from our own jud

Throughout the story Gatsby is constantly mentioning things of the past with Daisy, “he talked a lot about the past… he wanted to recover something”. Even though it has been five years, he talks of how he wants and believes that everything will be the same. And when Daisy comes to a party that he has thrown, he is convinced she has had a terrible time. When Nick tells him, “’I wouldn’t expect too much of her… you can’t repeat the past.’” Gatsby replies, “’Can’t repeat the past? Of course you can!” This goes to show Gatsby’s obsession with making things just how they were, when him and Daisy were together and loved only each other. Although as readers we know that things do change and nothing will ever be the same for Gatsby and Daisy.

When Gatsby discovers that his dream of having everything be the same between him and Daisy, that time has stood still and she has always loved him, is forever gone when he goes to eat lunch at the Buchanan’s house. There, he meets Daisy and Tom’s daughter and is caught off guard, “He kept looking at the child with surprise. I don’t think he has eve

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