As we all know by now, Gatsby has a strong mindset on his goal in life, he wants to win Daisy back. Gatsby's determination to reach this goal has taken him. on a roller coaster of emotions and issues, leading to his death. Each one of the steps he took in life was to lead him back to Daisy, although his plan did not work. for a while, it ended in tragedy. Gatsby had many obsessions, including wealth and material possessions, that sometimes led him to become cocky towards those he didn't like. Many see Gatsby as a great man because he got his wealth in such a short amount of time, nobody knows how this happened. This shows his lack of honesty and authenticity. The association Gatsby seems to have with illegal activities and organized crime …show more content…
Their love could have been a forever thing, but they would never be able to bring back what they had 5 years prior. Both Gatsby and Daisy have changed, not just as people, but in every factor of their lives as well. Since Gatsby left, Daisy married a rich man named Tom and they had a daughter together, she and Tom may have had a rocky marriage but the rest of her life had been sailing smoothly. Gatsby had been spending his life doing everything to lead him back to his love of Daisy. He had become exceedingly wealthy and moved to New York to be closer to her. He longed for the day that they would meet again, so when he got the chance with Nick he made sure he took that opportunity and ran with it. This shows Gatsby's inability to move on from the past and let go of his idealized vision of …show more content…
Some might even go as far as saying that he is obsessed with his wealth, and with all of his material possessions. Throughout the book, Gatsby is shown to be driven by his desire to attain wealth and status to win over Daisy. He believes that if he can give Daisy all that she wants, she will want to be back with him rather than Tom. This single-minded pursuit of material success can be seen as shallow and ultimately unfulfilling. Gatsby has every item that he could ever want, and if he doesn't have it already, he will soon. Some examples of this would be his luxurious customized car, his extraordinary mansion and all of the lavish parties he throws at it, the unnecessary fruit juicer, and his seaplane. In this book, items show the class and wealth that the characters have obtained, and Gatsby doesn't fail to show his wealth. He often brags about it to those that he dislikes, or to switch up the conversation when it dies
... But the "Great Gatsby" still believes he will obtain Daisy and happiness with the gain of money. It seems Gatsby did not necessarily want Daisy back, but the time he had with Daisy all those years ago. He wanted to relive his past. He wanted to have his past self love the past Daisy in the past years, and it cannot be because time has moved them forward.
“’Did you see any trouble on the road?’ he asked after a minute. ‘Yes.’ He hesitated. ‘Was she killed?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘I thought so; I told Daisy I thought so. It’s better that the shock should all come at once. She stood it pretty well.’ He spoke as if Daisy’s reaction was the only thing that mattered.” Gatsby’s hesitation before asking “Was she killed” means he has bad memories from mentioning murder, especially since he was involved in one. The damage in reputation that this kill could possibly result in is enough to hurt Gatsby, and his achievements will have become worthless. During the part where Gatsby claims that he “thought so; I told Daisy I thought so. It’s better that the shock should all come at once. She stood it pretty well,” Gatsby
Gatsby’s love life has become surrounded by ideas from the past. No longer is he able to fall in love with the moment, but instead he is held up on what have and should have been. He spends his time reminiscing on old times and previous relationships while he has also been building up a new life in order to return to the past. The unreal expectations he has for Daisy prove to us that he has trouble letting go of his old romantic ideas. Gatsby doesn’t want to accept and love this new Daisy, and instead he is hoping for the Daisy he knows to come back. But people change and there can be no expectations for someone to continue to remain the same after a number of years. Instead we must let go of the past and embrace the future for everything it could be.
Although Gatsby gets what he wants in being reunited with Daisy, it seems that he acknowledges that achieving this goal is not as satisfying as he would have hoped:
Gatsby’s obsession for Daisy powers his faithful nature while his optimism supports his confidence to repeat the past in his favor. From the moment Gatsby is aware of his love for Daisy, he becomes devoted to her. His goals selflessly focus on Daisy’s desires, which Gatsby believes
When he sees that she had changed, he and Nick analyze her. “‘She’s got an indiscreet voice,’ I remarked ‘It’s full of-- I hesitated. ‘Her voice is full of money’ He said suddenly. That was it I’d never understood before.It was full of money- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it. High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl”(120). In the quote, Gatsby’s characterization is added to when saying he only wanted Daisy because she was the manifestation of his life goals. Daisy was the final piece in Gatsby’s dream of having it all. His desire for her was no more than an ambition to fulfill his dreams. He finds himself disenchanted when she is not who he expected her to be. He often depicted her as a trophy to obtain. In his strive to reach a higher level of status, he aims for daisy. The trophy wife. However he fails to acknowledge that Daisy was a person who had her own life, such as a kid and a husband. Thus because of his expectations for Daisy, he ends up not being satisfied with what she was able to give him, her love. Gatsby demands to be her sole love. “‘’Oh you want too much! She cried to Gatsby. ‘I love you now- isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past!’ she began to sob helplessly. ‘I did love him once-but I loved you too’ Gatsby’s eyes opened and closed. ‘You love me too?’”(132). Gatsby demands that she loves him only with the fullest of hearts. He demands that she admit that she never loved Tom, this is too much to say because it is not true. Gatsby is upset by this and emphasizes that she loved him TOO. Not necessarily the only one she ever loved. This adds to the characterization of Gatsby clearly presenting what he wants from Daisy, that she is a prize to be won. Nothing else really. He only wants her as a sign that he has achieved the American dream. Furthermore this proves Fitzgerald’s claim
After their reunion, Gatsby and Daisy pick up where they left off, talking about old memories and future plans, Gatsby however does not see that these future plans are not entirely possible. He claims that he is going to “fix everything just the way it was before” and that he wants to restarts their new life together and leave the past couple of years behind them (118). This is saying that the pursuit of Ideals can cause a man to think irrationally and impulsively. In addition to this, Gatsby has a false sense of of safety, he states that he “wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and Say ‘I never loved you’”, obliterating three years of marriage with the statement (117). This shows how through focusing all of himself into chasing his dream, Gatsby sees his situation through rose coloured glasses.He sees only the good and ignores all the negative repercussions are at inevitable in his case. Gatsby is also shown to be very overconfident in his dream, acting impetuously and arrogantly. He confronts Daisy’s husband, Tom Buchanan. Gatsby goes to Tom and tells him that his “wife doesn’t love [him]” and that “she never loved [him]” (139). This caused Daisy to move farther from Gatsby, realizing his addictive and obsessive nature towards
The Great Gatsby is a romantic tale built upon lust, mistrust, love, and jealousy. This
Love makes people do crazy things. Gatsby spent 5 years waiting to see Daisy again. When Gatsby moved to West Egg he threw many parties in hopes that Daisy would show up, but she never did. After an extensive amount of time Nick finally got Daisy over to see Gatsby again. Gatsby had spent all this time thinking about what he would do when Daisy finally arrived at his home, then when she finally did he almost backed out. He dissatisfied himself with everything that he had and thought that bringing Daisy over for tea was a mistake. He had his doubts about Daisy; he thought that he wasn’t good enough to have her and that he would dishearten her. Gatsby was stuck on a love that was all made up in his mind; a love that would only bring tears and disillusionment.
Gatsby is a dreamer, he dreams that one day he and Daisy will be able to be together once again. To achieve this dream, Gatsby has made himself a rich man. He knows that in order to win Daisy back, he must be wealthy and of high social stature. Gatsby is rich, has a beautiful mansion, nice things, things like shirts “They’re such beautiful shirts. . . It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such-such beautiful clothes” (pg.98).Gatsby believes his dream will come true because of all the money and nice things he has.
Daisy comes to represent a treasured and sought possession for both Tom and Gatsby. Although on the surface it appears that Gatsby has an ever-lasting love for Daisy, I feel that his longing for Daisy stems from his need to recapture a possession which he lost during his youth. Nick comments "He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy". Furthermore by possessing Daisy's love, Gatsby can reject defeat and feel successful as a man.
He is so caught up in the illusion of love that he doesn't really think about how his life is going. would be, if he were to win Daisy's love back. Truly, he would not have been happy with it. Daisy. Gatsby is a keen, intelligent man that knows how to get what he wants.
In the beginning, Gatsby was a poor army boy who fell in love with a rich girl named Daisy. Knowing from their different circumstances, he could not marry her. So Gatsby left to accumulate a lot of money. Daisy, not being able to wait for Gatsby, marries a rich man named Tom. Tom believes that it is okay for a man to be unfaithful but it is not okay for the woman to be. This caused a lot of conflict in their marriage and caused Daisy to be very unhappy. Gatsby’s dream is to be with Daisy, and since he has accumulated a lot of money, he had his mind set on getting her back. Throughout the novel, Gatsby shows his need to attain The American Dream of love and shows his determination to achieve it. You can tell that Gatsby has a clear vision of what he wants when Nick says, “..he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I gla...
Gatsby was excited by Daisy and greatly desired her from the moment he met her as a soldier. However, we also learn from this passage that Gatsby was well aware of the social status and wealth disparity between them at the time and despised himself for it, and that he “was in Daisy’s house by a colossal accident” (Fitzgerald 112). The entire plot of the story was enveloped around Gatsby’s love for Daisy, and Nick’s role as a confidant is the vessel to the information that explains it. Gatsby’s love for Daisy drove him to become wealthy, buy a house across the water from her and host extravagant parties in hopes of seeing her. It also led to the argument with Tom and eventually Gatsby’s demise.
Once Gatsby was in West Egg, he ran into Daisy and then wanted to try to win her over again and to get her to leave Tom and marry him. He would try his best to get her love again with all of his "new money" as well as the extravagant lifestyle he lived. Throughout the entire novel, he displayed his persistence in his goal the many times he would go out with Daisy: driving around his white Rolls Royce, always wearing his finest suits, inviting her to his colossal mansion, and bringing her to lavish parties. "I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light. . . his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.