The Theme Of Control Of Life In The Great Gatsby

Gatsby gets murdered due to him wanting to control his life. He was a very controlling person, he liked to have control of how people view him as a person. Gatsby wants to control his life so it is perfect. While Gatsby tries to control his life, certain events don’t go his way causing him to lose control. Through his attempts to have a perfect life, the theme is shown that no one can control their lives. Gatsby attempts to control his life to be perfect, the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald shows no matter how hard someone tries they can never be perfect; which proves that nobody can really control their own lives. Gatsby tries to relive his past with the one he loves deeply. Throughout the book Gatsby tries to have a perfect life by attempting to relive his past. When Gatsby is talking about the past he says ‘“I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before”’ (Fitzgerald 117). He wants to fix the past because in the past he was happily in love with Daisy. This line that Gatsby says implies that he wants to control his life. Showing the
In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Gatsby, attempts to control his life to be perfect, it shows no matter how hard someone tries they can never be perfect; which proves that nobody can really control their own lives. When Gatsby tries too hard to control his life to be perfect, his life comes to an end. He tries to control the direction of his life and Daisy’s life so they can be together. Controlling too much in his life lead to his death because he was overwhelmed with all of the pressure to control everything. It just shows that people should not worry too much about how their lives will end up. They should enjoy their lives in the present and not worry about the things they did in the past. People should always look to what life has to offer rather than trying to live in the