The Great Gatsby Theme Essay

The novel The Great Gatsby shows us many different themes throughout the book . The author F. Scott Fitzgerald does a great job of showing the themes hope,money and obsession throughout the characters.
F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the themes hope through gatsby along the whole book. Gatsby does everything in his power to get daisy back who he met as a young military officer before leaving to fight in the war. Gatsby immediately fell in love with daisy who promised to wait for him when gatsby later on returns home he finds out that daisy has married to a man named Tom after this gatsby attempts to getting an education and from that moment on he was dedicated to earning enough wealth to get daisy back . Gatsby later on moves across the bay from daisy into a big house where he later own throws big parties were many people attended and where thousands of dollars are spent just so he can get Daisy’s attention “I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties some night “ said Jordan. Through the book gatsby dreams of the day he will have daisy

back he spent 5 years of his life trying to become wealthy enough to show her he’s worthy of her love . This shows how gatsby was a hopeless romantic for daisy a girl that was never going to love him the way he loves her.
The theme money plays a big role throughout the whole book.

The character Gatsby who came from a family of poor farmers in North Dakota but at the age of seventeen he is determined to make something of himself . Gatsby goes off with a man named Dan Cody and never looks back Dan Cody taught gatsby everything there is to know about the rich society. From everything Dan Cody taught Gatsby,Gatsby uses it to charm daisy before the war but when Gatsby returns he finds out daisy in fact didn’t wait on him instead she married another man. This causes him to pursue his dream of being wealthy any way he can “he and this Wolfsheim brought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter” says Tom . In fact gatsby did make most of his money from bootlegging alcohol . As you’ve read this book you can tell Gatsby just wants to be as wealthy as possible so he can win daisy

over.
In this novel the author shows us how Gatsby's Love for daisy can be seen as obsession . It’s been five years since Gatsby has seen Daisy and instead of sending her a letter to say hey or stopping by her house he’s buys himself a house just across the bay from her close enough that he can see the light on her dock “it was a strange coincidence.. but it wasn’t a coincidence at all”. Gatsby bought the house so that daisy would be just across the bay . Normally old friends don’t do that . Another instance how gatoshows obsession to daisy is how he was trying to get daisy to tell her husband Tom that she never loved him. “She only married you because I was poor and she tired of waiting on me ..but in her heart she’s never loved anyone except me” cried Gatsby. In conclusion we asked whether Gatsby’s relationship with Daisy was Love or obsession. Most of Gatsby’s actions were made out of obsession over daisy not out of love.
F. Scott Fitzgerald does a great job at showing the themes hope, money and obsession throughout his book The Great Gatsby .Gatsby hoped to get back with daisy who stole his heart before the war but as he was trying to show his love for her it turned into obsession.

Kansas Faye