Why Do I Admire In The Great Gatsby
If one wants to define life in one word it would be: tough. If one wants to know how to succeed in life, the answer if unknown. However, a great man in life once said that if we lose ourselves in books, we find ourselves too. This being said, the only thing I can think of is finding myself through Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Jay was a man who had only one fear, losing his true love, Daisy. However, I admire him not for his loving persona but for his dedication to success in life. He understands that in order to succeed, one must never give up, but must take all necessary measures to receive what one desires. Life is not just given to you, it requires effort and strength, and Jay Gatsby truly understands this. Gatsby
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When Gatsby is “stretch[ing] out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock”, where the green light is Daisy herself, some may find a sort of stalking (Fitzgerald 21). Arguing the fact that because of how Gatsby has spent his entire life since the moment he met Daisy completely engulfed in her, he in turn is stalking her and an overly attached person. However, to that one would say he is not a stalker rather a love sick man. He found his true soul mate, the women he connects with on a level no one can understand unless they too have experienced it. When one is in love that person is everything; “All he face was honey to my mouth,/And all her body pasture to mine eyes” (Love and Sleep 9-10). However, the fact that Gatsby is so dedicated to everything he does in life would counter this, proving that he is not a stalker, rather is just a passionate man, who completely dedicates himself to everything he does. Maybe in our current times dedication and passion is viewed as being a psychopath, however that further proves just how low our current standards have
When Gatsby is “stretch[ing] out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock”, where the green light is Daisy herself, some may find a sort of stalking (Fitzgerald 21). Arguing the fact that because of how Gatsby has spent his entire life since the moment he met Daisy completely engulfed in her, he in turn is stalking her and an overly attached person. However, to that one would say he is not a stalker rather a love sick man. He found his true soul mate, the women he connects with on a level no one can understand unless they too have experienced it. When one is in love that person is everything; “All he face was honey to my mouth,/And all her body pasture to mine eyes” (Love and Sleep 9-10). However, the fact that Gatsby is so dedicated to everything he does in life would counter this, proving that he is not a stalker, rather is just a passionate man, who completely dedicates himself to everything he does. Maybe in our current times dedication and passion is viewed as being a psychopath, however that further proves just how low our current standards have