Analysis Of Jay Gatsby
In “The Great Gatsby”, one of the major characters that confronts a mystery is Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is a man who believes that his dreams will turn into reality and his biggest dream was to win back the love of his life Daisy.
Gatsby is presented as a distant and mysterious host of luxurious parties thrown at his mansion every week. These parties were filled with a lot of people he did not know. The thing that makes Gatsby very mysterious is that no one knows anything about his past and the parties he keeps throwing. Throughout the novel Nick Carraway is trying to discover everything he can about Gatsby’s past. In Gatsby’s luxurious parties, Nick was lured by the misleading rumors that are being spread by his visitors. For example, Gatsby
is placed by some of his guests as an illegal bootlegger or as a German spy during the war, while others say that he has killed a man. These stories are the outcome of their ignorance of Gatsby’s life. To put an end to this, Nick and Gatsby became close friends, thus Gatsby has started to reveal parts of his unfamiliar past. Nick realizes that the fast life of Gatsby is just a cover for the terrifying moral emptiness that the valley of ashes symbolizes. In the past the main reason Daisy rejected Gatsby was due to his lack of money. So ever since that moment he has been doing everything he can to get money so that Daisy would accept him and agree to be with him. . After becoming rich, his main aim focused on finding Daisy, therefore, everything he does, every purchase he makes, every party he throws, is all part of his grand scheme to bring Daisy back into his life and thanks to his friendship with Nick the mystery was solved.
At the end of the story, because he was so focused on getting Daisy to love him, Gatsby moves further and further into a fantasy world. His inability to deal with reality makes him act abnormally and his love to Daisy led to his downfall. Because he loved her very much he took her place in getting blamed for hitting Myrtle and that made George Wilson shoot Gatsby.
Gatsby is presented as a distant and mysterious host of luxurious parties thrown at his mansion every week. These parties were filled with a lot of people he did not know. The thing that makes Gatsby very mysterious is that no one knows anything about his past and the parties he keeps throwing. Throughout the novel Nick Carraway is trying to discover everything he can about Gatsby’s past. In Gatsby’s luxurious parties, Nick was lured by the misleading rumors that are being spread by his visitors. For example, Gatsby
is placed by some of his guests as an illegal bootlegger or as a German spy during the war, while others say that he has killed a man. These stories are the outcome of their ignorance of Gatsby’s life. To put an end to this, Nick and Gatsby became close friends, thus Gatsby has started to reveal parts of his unfamiliar past. Nick realizes that the fast life of Gatsby is just a cover for the terrifying moral emptiness that the valley of ashes symbolizes. In the past the main reason Daisy rejected Gatsby was due to his lack of money. So ever since that moment he has been doing everything he can to get money so that Daisy would accept him and agree to be with him. . After becoming rich, his main aim focused on finding Daisy, therefore, everything he does, every purchase he makes, every party he throws, is all part of his grand scheme to bring Daisy back into his life and thanks to his friendship with Nick the mystery was solved.
At the end of the story, because he was so focused on getting Daisy to love him, Gatsby moves further and further into a fantasy world. His inability to deal with reality makes him act abnormally and his love to Daisy led to his downfall. Because he loved her very much he took her place in getting blamed for hitting Myrtle and that made George Wilson shoot Gatsby.