Dreaming Can Bring Misery in the Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitgerald

We have always been told that our imagination is the key to success. It is the way that we contribute and add knowledge to the world. It is that thought in our mind that takes us beyond reality. Imagination is necessary in order to prosper as a humane race. But how far could one imagine before we start mistaking reality with our hopes and dreams? In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald we see how dreaming to far could bring misery.

Jay Gatsby, the protagonist of our novel is a young, elegant, mysterious, millionaire in New York around the 1920s. He lives in a mansion on West Egg where he throws extravagant parties for all of New York to attend but in reality only desires the attendance of one person in particular, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby met Daisy a long time ago at house party while he was at Camp Taylor before the war. Gatsby claims that it was love at first site when he and she first met. Both Daisy and Gatsby would write letters to each other as the war went on, but soon Daisy waited no longer and married Tom Buchanan a robust Polo player of a very wealthy family. Daisy and Tom, without knowing it, lived right across the bay from Gatsby’s place, in East Egg, where Gatsby would reach out for the green light flashing from their dock.

Very view people knew what Gatsby looked like and even fewer truly knew who he was. People gossiped amongst themselves about who he was, where he came from, and those sorts of things, but he was a true mystery for almost everyone even our narrator Nick Caraway feels iffy about Gatsby throughout most of the novel. Gatsby first tells Nick that he is of a wealthy family from the mid-west and that they have all passed now leaving him large amounts of wealth. He adds that he is an Oxford ...

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... that she never loved Tom, because, even if it were true or not, it is easy to lie for the one you love unless you truly don’t. The most solid evidence we have that Daisy loved Tom and not Gatsby is because she never called. The night when she ran over the girl, Daisy agreed to call Gatsby in the morning, but never did.

In result of everything Gatsby ends up dead. The kid who dreamed with the stars in the night time, and envisioned a glorious life for the future, in the end, dies with his hopes. Gatsby was never satisfied, he must have always felt miserable. Gatsby thought that money could bring him happiness. Then when he had the wealth he thought he needed Daisy to be complete. We will never know how it would have ended or how far he would have gone with his vast imagination. Gatsby serves us all as an example to keep imagination and reality near to each other.