Accomplishment In Life In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

A sweeping belief in America is that every individual has a dream, and all dreams are defined and curated by the dreamer. F. Scott Fitzgerald creates a modern commentary that reflects the idea of the complicated world around him in his novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald transcribes this idea into the pages of the novel and into the characters he conceived. The characters in the novel continuously put their dreams before their own sanity. They habitually put their desire for wealth, class, image and material before every aspect of their lives. Accomplishment in life is based off if they have acquired these privileges and have what they dream to possess. Each individual in the novel represents a different dream, and all achieve or ultimately

He undertook this outgrowth of character because his ultimate intention was to obtain this idea of Daisy that he curated when they had first met. This notion that Gatsby had to look and act a certain way came from what he believes is standard and perfect in Daisy’s eyes. Gatsby’s outlook on life is based not only on what he believes, but also what his society believes. Even though Daisy and Gatsby were involved romantically in the past, he needs a way to captivate her once more and compel her to deem him worthy. During the tour of his West Egg mansion, Gatsby eagerly gives Daisy and Nick, Nick noticed that Gatsby “hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy”(Fitzgerald 91). Seeing this Nick thought Gatsby“revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes” (Fitzgerald 91). Nick is suggesting that Gatsby is deeply infatuated with, and wholeheartedly invested, in Daisy or just the idea of her. To have Daisy is more paramount than Gatsby’s own stability, so when involved with Daisy Gatsby makes her a top priority. Gatsby crafts this facade that he puts up when around the people he associates with, primarily Daisy and Nick. Gatsby has a dream, and this dream was born from obsession not only with Daisy but more importantly for a life that he never before could attain. Seiters describes Gatsby by suggesting that he was “a

Gatsby held Daisy in such high esteem, that he lost sight of her true nature. He only conceded to recognize the aspect of her that he wanted to, which was the favorable side of her that he built on; he chose to ignore the corrupted reality of who she truly was. Daisy was corrupted by wealth and class, and she continuously sought fortune over her own bona fide delight. Gatsby's dream, that he meticulously constructed, spent years developing and coming to life, only to be inevitably flawed in the end. When the pair met they were polar opposites, Gatsby being in the army and coming from a poor family and Daisy growing up in a life of privilege and luxury, their lives from the start were so contrasting. They went against the status quo and came together and shaped the perfect illusion of a relationship. Although Gatsby and Daisy have a short-lived romance, it is clear that Daisy is fallible and that is her most prominent attribute. Daisy’s flaws are what separate her from Gatsby’s vision of perfection, and ultimately humanize her. After Gatsby and Daisy are reunited at his home, Nick and Gatsby reflect over their eventful day that had just come and gone. Nick makes an insightful observation by stating, “there must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams” (Fitzgerald 95). Nick believes this