Themes In The Great Gatsby

Understanding The Importance of Themes F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, happens to outline the importance of love, friendship, betrayal, redemption, and sacrifice (just to name a few). Although the most centralized theme of the whole story seems to be redemption. Jay Gatsby becomes heart broken at the loss of his beloved Daisy and for years after the painful loss he tries to win her back. Through the use of extravagant parties, Gatsby hopes to somehow find Daisy so he can redeem himself to show her the love that never faded. The love that Gatsby has for Daisy is not the only value that he wishes to profess to her. Throughout the book, Gatsby not only tries to redeem the relationship that him and Daisy once had, but also he struggles to redeem who he was. With losing his love, he also lost a huge part of himself that he can only find through her.
The lesser themes (lesser in terms of not quite as central as others) of friendship, betrayal and love are definitely shown through Nick’s experiences, but when it comes to the central theme there is the mystic quality of hidden expression. Of course having the story told by Gatsby would enable the reader a far better experience of emotion. But Fitzgerald gave way to a mystical element with the story being told by an outsider who knows nothing of Gatsby. With Gatsby containing a sort of unknown personality, we are then able to clearly see that redemption is the main