Carraway further explains Gatsby’s feelings. “Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion” (95). Once again, Gatsby’s expectations have fallen short of
Gatsby had spent so much time and effort pursuing this unrealistic view of Daisy that it became impossible for her to live up to these expectations. He never made a real effort to find out who she actually is, or even simply respect that she had created a life apart from him. It’s unsurprising that he is disappointed by reality; he has been living in an elaborate dream, deluding himself to believe that his plan to win her over will work just because he wants it to, and ignoring the real factors that would break this illusion until it is broken for him. Gatsby is aware of the factors playing against him when it comes to his dream of being with Daisy, such as her marriage and commitment to her family, but he creates a mental version of events that serve him when he cannot accept this reality. Subsequently, he suffers from realizing that his imagined perfect version of Daisy and their perfect life together is not real or reasonable.
When Gatsby first sees the green light on Daisy’s dock, he feels like his dream is “so close that he [can] hardly fail to grasp it” but he is unable to see that it “[is] already behind him” and impossible to reach (180). He lives a life of optimism “running faster and stretching his arms out further”, expending all his energy for a goal that only gets further away (180). Rather than sailing closer to the greatness of his goal, Gatsby is “borne back ceaselessly into the past,” drifting further and further away from his dream (180). Gatsby obsessively crafts an ideal image of a life with Daisy in his head, but the reality of the situation is much different. When Daisy comes over for tea Gatsby is a mess despite spending everyday preparing for her arrival.
Gatsby want to be rich, and attract Daisy. Unfortunately this dissatisfaction led to a career in bootlegging. Gatsby's dream that he had been striving for his whole life was ultimately to be with Daisy, his one true love. In the novel Fitzgerald wrote: His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy's white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.
Introduction The Great Gatsby is written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald who is the most famous chronicler of America in 1920s, an era that he dubbed “the Jazz Age.” The book reveals the disillusion of American dream through the love story between Gatsby and Daisy. In this book, what Gatsby cared about was only Daisy, and even he died for Daisy. It seems that Gatsby loves Daisy very much.
Some might say that Gatsby is a “massive dreamer” or that he was delusional, living in denial I believe that Gatsby is a delusional dreamer. He expected far too much from Daisy, after not seeing her for 5 years. He was a man of hope he thought he can repeat the past and get Daisy back in his life, to the point where he would reach out for the green light which embodied Daisy. Gatsby was aware that Daisy had a daughter, yet when he looked at her, he was surprised. The daughter was never part of Gatsby’s dream, he only wanted Daisy and only Daisy.
Gatsby's undenying love for Daisy explains his motives for the parties and his fancy house yet, they are not enough to fulfill Gatsby's dream. For Gatsby’s dream
Gatsby’s dream was to gain Daisy’s status because he had more of an obsession over her rather than true love, he does foolish things just to get her attention and make her believe he is worthy of her, and his romantic gestures are rather just a show for her. Gatsby’s obsession over Daisy and her status was all disguised by his “true love” for her. He changes his whole
Hercules said, “A true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.” A hero is someone who wants to help others and always does the right thing. In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Sodapop isn’t a hero because he’s extremely strong or courageous, but because he’s caring and selfless. In the beginning of the book, Soda has a conversation with Ponyboy about his relationship with Sandy.
In his novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald explores the reality of the American Dream. Throughout the novel, he uses Daisy to represent the American Dream. In chapter eight, after Daisy crashes the car, “she vanish[es] into her rich house… leaving Gatsby nothing” (149). Daisy is depicted as soulless; she is willing to let Gatsby take the fall for her faults. In order to remain the American Dream, Daisy must appear blameless to society; therefore, the common man must always take responsibility for her mistakes.
If Gatsby had created a new dream once he had Daisy, then he would have had something to look forward to and something to strive for.
Gatsby has a dream of being with Daisy for the rest of their lives because he once had her and lost her because he had to leave her to fight in war. And once he came back he did everything he could to get the attention of Daisy and try to win her back. He lived across the water to see her house every night and day and threw parties hoping to get her attention and see her. “I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night,’ went on Jordan, ‘but she never did. Then he began asking people casually if they knew her” (Fitzgerald 85)
This happens especially in Gatsby’s dreams . His dreams are based on a past relationship he had with Daisy. As a human being, more is always wanted. Gatsby was unable to base his dreams on the future and that Daisy had moved on. This is more important that one’s actual desires because when someone dreams about something the dream is usually better than reality.
His “dream” is made impossible by the class system between Daisy and him. Gatsby continues to self-pity that all his material success has gone to waste. Fitzgerald emphasizes the consequences of Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy by implementing metaphors. The metaphors accentuate a feeling of wasted time and effort felt by Gatsby, which is represented in this quote, “He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end,
Just as the American Dream- the pursuit of happiness- has degenerated into a quest for more wealth, Gatsby’s powerful dream of happiness with Daisy has become the motivation for lavish excess and criminal activities. He used his dream to escape from his past, but then was stuck on hold for when he lost Daisy the only part of the dream he really cared for. Gatsby made a dream just for Daisy so she could be apart of his, but saw the meaningless of it when she didn’t choose him in the end. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther….
