Reality In The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a well known work of American literature that exemplifies American life in the 1920’s and the American Dream. The novel touches on many concepts such as ethnicity, class, gender, race, the American Dream, and more. It’s diversity and analytical significance makes The Great Gatsby such a commonly used novel. Different things throughout the novel have meaning like the green light, the weather, dreams, and other commonly touched upon things. A dream can be a thought, an ambition, and a phase of sleep. Dreams can pertain to a spectrum of things. Gatsby has dreams that can seem hopeless and distant from reality. Although “fixed” is an important word in The Great Gatsby, the most important word in the novel
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One that remains from a young age is his desire to be with Daisy Buchanan. Reminiscing on Gatsby’s past with Daisy, Nick says “He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable death, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God” (Fitzgerald 110). This is when Gatsby realized he would be forever trapped in his dream for Daisy. A ridiculous dream that seems hopeless, but Gatsby takes note of the slight possibility. He dreams for the past in the future, creating a conflict with time. Gatsby hopes for the past so that fragments of his dream with Daisy will survive. Gatsby places Daisy in his dream that can never exist because Daisy will not become what Gatsby envisioned of her. Nick Carraway mentions Daisy’s inability to fulfill Gatsby's dream when he says “. . . Daisy tumbled short of his dreams--not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time. . .” (Fitzgerald 95). What Gatsby envisions that him and Daisy will become can never become reality. Daisy is not only part of Gatsby’s dream of being with her, but of the larger symbolism of Gatsby and the American
One that remains from a young age is his desire to be with Daisy Buchanan. Reminiscing on Gatsby’s past with Daisy, Nick says “He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable death, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God” (Fitzgerald 110). This is when Gatsby realized he would be forever trapped in his dream for Daisy. A ridiculous dream that seems hopeless, but Gatsby takes note of the slight possibility. He dreams for the past in the future, creating a conflict with time. Gatsby hopes for the past so that fragments of his dream with Daisy will survive. Gatsby places Daisy in his dream that can never exist because Daisy will not become what Gatsby envisioned of her. Nick Carraway mentions Daisy’s inability to fulfill Gatsby's dream when he says “. . . Daisy tumbled short of his dreams--not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time. . .” (Fitzgerald 95). What Gatsby envisions that him and Daisy will become can never become reality. Daisy is not only part of Gatsby’s dream of being with her, but of the larger symbolism of Gatsby and the American