Daisy In The Great Gatsby
1. Introduction
America was in a jazz age in 1920s. Its economy developed so fast that most American people had begun to get a sense that “World War I” had brought so many material benefits to them, with unprecedented enthusiasm; they closed doors to purchase wealth and pleasure insanely. They not only think they are placed in one of the most brilliant era in human’s history and mesmerize in it, but also believe that the time will continue endlessly. Social structure and people’s behavior and psychology have changed so profoundly: the middle class expanded rapidly, personal consumption expansion, the changing of people's moral concept. "This is an era that the popularity of puritanism and drinking, is also an era when psychological analysis, jazz music and girls become coquettish frivolous. People’s this kind of concept is the reason why American dream disillusioned. …show more content…
And the article will discuss the inevitability of the disintegration of American dream from 4 different aspects. This paper also tries to analyze Gatsby’s tragic roots on purpose to offer a window onto the writing device, get an all-sided understanding of the novel and build right moral values in modern time.
1. What is American dream
It is said that American dream is a kind of life which should be better and richer. It provides equal chance for everyone to establish an enterprise or be a millionaire For some people, American dream is a ladder from rags to riches.[1] As a matter of fact, American dream is a kind of mental state to make People try their best to be independent and to be successful. At the same time, it also provides children a better future and encourages them to make contributions for the world.
The reason why American dream exists is that there is a special principle in their country. Everyone knows that it’s so lucky for them to live on this land, they have a permanent to purchase life，freedom and happiness. Although they know what the life and freedom mean, they feel confused to the pursuit of happiness, and this kind of confusion leads to their misunderstanding to American dream. In most Americans’ eyes, what the American dream promises is not a right to happiness, but a right to achieve it on one’s own.
2. Gatsby’s dream
Gatsby’s dream is multilayered. There are three aspects of Gatsby’s dream: the desire for money, the desire to repeat the past, and the desire for incarnation of “unutterable visions” in the material earth.” [2]The desire to be with Daisy gives him enormous power to achieve his dream of money and right. He believes that he can regain daisy and come back to the past. This is the essential factor to cause to Gatsby’s tragedy.
3. The inevitability of the disintegration of Gatsby’s dream
3.1The analysis of Daisy’s characteristic
Daisy is not a more faithful lover than her husband.
To start with, she thinks Gatsby is wealthy and falls in love with him. But realizing the fact that Gatsby can’t give her a luxurious life, she chooses Tom as her husband without any doubt. However, Gatsby’s appearing with historic fortune and his true love to her seems to make her moved, then she tries to recover the relationship between them. For Daisy, what she really wants is not a romantic lover, but she needs a man who can give her a comfortable life and a respect position.
3.2 Gatsby’s characteristic
The inevitable tragedy of Gatsby lies in that he not only believes in true love but also loves a woman who he believes to be ideal to him but, in fact, too far from his life. Gatsby lives in a deformed society where men like Wilson and Gatsby “are ultimately destroyed, in the wasteland of modern America,” and “it is the flesh-ridden realists like Tom Buchanan who accommodate ― and survive.”
Gatsby’s dream’s disillusion let us see the he inevitability of the disintegration of American dream.
4.
Conclusion
The author expressed his sadness to the Lost Generation by describing a series of tragedies successfully in The Great Gatsby which reflects the social reality of that age. [4]Gatsby, is an individual living in that period, who lives a poor life in youth. In Gatsby’s eyes, the world is material without real and love. The distorted pursuit of material and social success is doomed to failure. Facing the cruel reality, both Gatsby and his dream are just buried in this heartless land. His personal experience is the realization of the American dream.
Gatsby’s dream is the symbol of American dream; he is so brave and persistent to achieve his dream. Unfortunately, his pursuit to material is twisty. In other words, his misunderstanding to the essence of American dream makes his dream be dead. This also means the he inevitability of the disintegration of American dream.
America was in a jazz age in 1920s. Its economy developed so fast that most American people had begun to get a sense that “World War I” had brought so many material benefits to them, with unprecedented enthusiasm; they closed doors to purchase wealth and pleasure insanely. They not only think they are placed in one of the most brilliant era in human’s history and mesmerize in it, but also believe that the time will continue endlessly. Social structure and people’s behavior and psychology have changed so profoundly: the middle class expanded rapidly, personal consumption expansion, the changing of people's moral concept. "This is an era that the popularity of puritanism and drinking, is also an era when psychological analysis, jazz music and girls become coquettish frivolous. People’s this kind of concept is the reason why American dream disillusioned. …show more content…
And the article will discuss the inevitability of the disintegration of American dream from 4 different aspects. This paper also tries to analyze Gatsby’s tragic roots on purpose to offer a window onto the writing device, get an all-sided understanding of the novel and build right moral values in modern time.
1. What is American dream
It is said that American dream is a kind of life which should be better and richer. It provides equal chance for everyone to establish an enterprise or be a millionaire For some people, American dream is a ladder from rags to riches.[1] As a matter of fact, American dream is a kind of mental state to make People try their best to be independent and to be successful. At the same time, it also provides children a better future and encourages them to make contributions for the world.
The reason why American dream exists is that there is a special principle in their country. Everyone knows that it’s so lucky for them to live on this land, they have a permanent to purchase life，freedom and happiness. Although they know what the life and freedom mean, they feel confused to the pursuit of happiness, and this kind of confusion leads to their misunderstanding to American dream. In most Americans’ eyes, what the American dream promises is not a right to happiness, but a right to achieve it on one’s own.
2. Gatsby’s dream
Gatsby’s dream is multilayered. There are three aspects of Gatsby’s dream: the desire for money, the desire to repeat the past, and the desire for incarnation of “unutterable visions” in the material earth.” [2]The desire to be with Daisy gives him enormous power to achieve his dream of money and right. He believes that he can regain daisy and come back to the past. This is the essential factor to cause to Gatsby’s tragedy.
3. The inevitability of the disintegration of Gatsby’s dream
3.1The analysis of Daisy’s characteristic
Daisy is not a more faithful lover than her husband.
To start with, she thinks Gatsby is wealthy and falls in love with him. But realizing the fact that Gatsby can’t give her a luxurious life, she chooses Tom as her husband without any doubt. However, Gatsby’s appearing with historic fortune and his true love to her seems to make her moved, then she tries to recover the relationship between them. For Daisy, what she really wants is not a romantic lover, but she needs a man who can give her a comfortable life and a respect position.
3.2 Gatsby’s characteristic
The inevitable tragedy of Gatsby lies in that he not only believes in true love but also loves a woman who he believes to be ideal to him but, in fact, too far from his life. Gatsby lives in a deformed society where men like Wilson and Gatsby “are ultimately destroyed, in the wasteland of modern America,” and “it is the flesh-ridden realists like Tom Buchanan who accommodate ― and survive.”
Gatsby’s dream’s disillusion let us see the he inevitability of the disintegration of American dream.
4.
Conclusion
The author expressed his sadness to the Lost Generation by describing a series of tragedies successfully in The Great Gatsby which reflects the social reality of that age. [4]Gatsby, is an individual living in that period, who lives a poor life in youth. In Gatsby’s eyes, the world is material without real and love. The distorted pursuit of material and social success is doomed to failure. Facing the cruel reality, both Gatsby and his dream are just buried in this heartless land. His personal experience is the realization of the American dream.
Gatsby’s dream is the symbol of American dream; he is so brave and persistent to achieve his dream. Unfortunately, his pursuit to material is twisty. In other words, his misunderstanding to the essence of American dream makes his dream be dead. This also means the he inevitability of the disintegration of American dream.