Character Analysis Of Jay Gatsby And This Side Of Paradise

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Tazrian Rashid
Mushira Habib
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English 355
Character Analysis of Jay Gatsby and Amory Blaine from The Great Gatsby and This side of Paradise
Fitzgerald’s character Jay Gatsby from his book The Great Gatsby, was very much in love with luxurious life .That is why in his early childhood he left St.Olaf’s College because he had to work as a janitor there to pay his tuition fees. It would not be wrong to say he hated poverty from his early life. This could be his main reason to feel attracted towards Daisy Buchanan, who was a symbol of beauty and class. During Gatsby’s military training he met Daisy and the two fell in love with each other. Though Daisy promised to wait for Gatsby yet married Tom Buchanan ,while Gatsby was studying in Oxford .Gatsby took his rejection seriously and made his aim to achieve Daisy. He started involving himself in illegal work to earn money and started throwing mysterious parties to show off his money and social status .The main motive behind all these was not his greed or revenge but it was all for Daisy, whom he thought to be the love of his life. According to Gatsby his love for Daisy was very innocent and it did not even matter to him that Daisy was married to someone else. He perceived Daisy as a symbol of purity and innocence and wanted to have her at any cost. The main mistake of Gatsby was he mistook his obsession for Daisy as love and also he wanted to erase their past separation from their life by dint of his new money. " Fitzgerald also seems to be problematizing the inevitability of the text’s ending: Gatsby “turn[s] out all right’’

only if we forget, or repress, his obscenity.
While it is easy for a reader to overlook this scene, it requires no real effort to understand why the g...

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...er than Gatsby’s love for Daisy. Gatsby’s love was more like an obsession .He was not in love with her rather wanted to achieve her like a trophy.
In conclusion it can be said that Amory gives more importance to emotions, principles but materialistic stuffs are more important to Gatsby .Gatsby’s love for Daisy is an ideal example of his materialistic nature ,He was more attracted towards Daisy because she comes from a wealthy family ,her sophistication wealth ,charm attracted Gatsby towards her.

Works cited
Will ,Barbara. ”The Great Gatsby’’, Fall 2005.Published by College Literature,Vol:32,No,4.p.p 125-144,http://www.jstor.org/stable/25115310.
Jr ,Burhans ,Clinton S. “This side of Paradise”,(Oct,1969).Published by University of Illinois Press, Vol:68,No.4,p.p. 605-624,http://www.jstor.org/stable/27705772.

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