Literary Analysis Essay On The Great Gatsby

Gatsby Analytical Essay
Throughout life humans experiences many things, anything from something non-physical such as emotions or physical as in driving a car. Fitzgerald highlights of what humans experience most in their lifetime, from the time of birth to the last seconds of death, which is emotions.
Something the humans know but lack the knowledge of. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald with the use of literary devices depicts the complexity of love through characters to explain that what they call love is a dream.
Fitzgerald through his life experiences wrote how he felt. Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda
Fitzgerald, at first accepts his marriage proposal but later breaks it off due to his lack of money to where he cannot provide for her. Just like

When it came time where he published The Great Gatsby and got his wife, Zelda, back Fitzgerald realized that what he saw was a mirage. Just as the first meeting after 5 years of
Gatsby and Daisy. Gatsby and Daisy connections "seemed as close as a star to the moon"(
Fitzgerald 93). The metaphor from a scientific view, our moon is not close to a star in fact the opposite, the distance is astronomical. However as a view from Earth looking at the night sky it feels as if the stars and the moon could reach each other. However they never reach, they get so close they tease humans emotions, just like Gatsby. Gatsby saw his love life getting so close he can almost reach it, but he is just teased to the fact that he can not reach it. Gatsby never realizes it because he is to blind of how close he got.
Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby as a way to display the human emotionalroller- coaster. How humans emotions are never complete, especially love. There are no math or science put to the equations to know the complexity of emotions, Humans only know through experience and through reading The Great Gatsby, the consensus of the book is that love can not be perfected, it will only appear to