A childhood innocence is something that is valued by many. Yet, there comes a time when we must let go of these childhood expectations. Jay Gatsby exhibits this quality in a way that makes life better for him. He has a preconceived notion of his life’s hopes. He deeply loves a woman named Daisy Buchanan. His belief in his love for her is like a young child’s love with a kindergarten crush. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s imagination and obsession gives him the happiness and satisfaction he requires in his life, however, reality does not fully comply to his aspirations. Early on in the novel, the narrator, Nick Carraway, gets into a conversation with Jordan Baker. Jordan is Daisy’s friend. She recalls a moment when …show more content…
He thinks life is like a fairytale, in which Gatsby is the knight in shining armor and Tom is the dragon holding the princess Daisy captive. What he does not realize is that Daisy now loves Tom, and will stay with him despite Gatsby’s attempts at doing otherwise. Nick communicates his belief that “[Gatsby] wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.’ “ (Fitzgerald 109). Gatsby wants Daisy to throw away her current life, and go with him for his ideal life he has planned out for years now. He wants to “rescue” her, even though he does not see that she does not want to be rescued. She is happy with her life, and wants things to stay how they are. Seeing him made her happy and nostalgic for a short period of time, and now she is well over it. Bloom discloses the ideal that “Perhaps Gatsby does not suffer, being so lost in his dream... What mitigates that suffering is the extent to which we too, as Americans, are lost in the same dream of love and wealth” (Bloom 4). Gatsby does not get directly upset over Daisy, as he still views life as his illusions he has fabricated. We as individuals also can get lost in a fantasy of what life should be from a rather young age. Especially as high school seniors, we expect our life to go through with our plans we are making now. Although, reality and life is much tougher than our conceived imaginations and can be far more