Great Gatsby
Summer Reading Essay
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is truly themed on greed and power creating corruption. Gatsby, one of the main characters started in the book as someone nick admired, worshiped, but all of that changed after experiencing the New York lifestyle. Gatsby turns from being an idol to someone with many problems. His lies lead him to great downfall and greed of being with Daisy, the love of his life. His life was perfectly fine until his encounter with Daisy, and his obsession of making everything perfect for her. In the beginning of the book Gatsby is known as one of the richest, bravest, most idolized individuals that lived in New York. His greed in finding this one girl, Daisy makes him go overboard. “He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way… Involuntarily I glanced seaward and distinguished nothing except a single green light…” (21) The green light symbolized his affection and connection to Daisy whom he was too scared to see but still dying eagerly to. All of his actions were based on getting her specifically to him, his parties, the dances, the house, he wanted perfection. Sadly perfection was unobtainable because of hiding secrets. Gatsby lives as one of the most powerful man in New York. “Gatsby has dismissed every servant in his house a week ago and replaced them with half a dozen other… I wanted someone who wouldn’t gossip.” (120) At this point in the book Gatsby is obsessed over Daisy and turns all his attention toward her. He stops to care about everyone but Daisy; it was the best time of his life, until it came to ruins. “I found out what your ‘drug-store’ was… he and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago the sold grain alcohol over the counter. That’s one of his little stunts.” (134) Gatsby was once a very poor man and Daisy’s husband, Tom Buchanan found out his secret about how he lived and became so rich and powerful. Gatsby’s downfall starts here as he
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is truly themed on greed and power creating corruption. Gatsby, one of the main characters started in the book as someone nick admired, worshiped, but all of that changed after experiencing the New York lifestyle. Gatsby turns from being an idol to someone with many problems. His lies lead him to great downfall and greed of being with Daisy, the love of his life. His life was perfectly fine until his encounter with Daisy, and his obsession of making everything perfect for her. In the beginning of the book Gatsby is known as one of the richest, bravest, most idolized individuals that lived in New York. His greed in finding this one girl, Daisy makes him go overboard. “He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way… Involuntarily I glanced seaward and distinguished nothing except a single green light…” (21) The green light symbolized his affection and connection to Daisy whom he was too scared to see but still dying eagerly to. All of his actions were based on getting her specifically to him, his parties, the dances, the house, he wanted perfection. Sadly perfection was unobtainable because of hiding secrets. Gatsby lives as one of the most powerful man in New York. “Gatsby has dismissed every servant in his house a week ago and replaced them with half a dozen other… I wanted someone who wouldn’t gossip.” (120) At this point in the book Gatsby is obsessed over Daisy and turns all his attention toward her. He stops to care about everyone but Daisy; it was the best time of his life, until it came to ruins. “I found out what your ‘drug-store’ was… he and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago the sold grain alcohol over the counter. That’s one of his little stunts.” (134) Gatsby was once a very poor man and Daisy’s husband, Tom Buchanan found out his secret about how he lived and became so rich and powerful. Gatsby’s downfall starts here as he