Theme Of Obsession In The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a “story of the failure of a mutual dream” (Person). Through the eyes of the narrator and spectator, Nick Carroway, we see how wealthy the people of East and West Egg live. Their lives seem perfect and they have everything money can buy. However, we also see how flawed each character is. Nostalgia, the bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past, is a dominant feeling throughout The Great Gatsby. Love affairs evolving throughout the story add conflict and emotion to its pages. The characters will do anything they can to get what they want with small regards as to how it will affect the people surrounding them. In the end of the novel, problems begin to arise that reflect back on each of their flaws. Fitzgerald’s characters’ obsessions with things such as wealth, happiness, oblivion, and judgement ultimately cause their downfall. The characters in The Great Gatsby want everything money can buy them, which they thought included happiness. Daisy Buchanan has it all. She has a large bank account, a happy family, and a good reputation. However, she soon came to realize how wealth had taken over her life. “Daisy has allowed herself to be shaped forever by the crude force of
Like any other human being, the characters in The Great Gatsby are always striving for happiness. Daisy Buchanan’s search for both happiness and wealth lead her towards her downward spiral. She attains the money and what she thought was happiness. However, she soon grows tiresome of Tom’s abusive and cheating ways. She then proceeds to seek Gatsby for true happiness. She is so confused about what she wants and what she needs. She still wants to rely on Tom as someone who will always be there to support her with money. Therefore, she does not denounce her love for him, which drives the conflict of the plot to the final event of Myrtle’s