The meaning of life is very subjective, and it varies from person to person. This is what Richard Dawkins was attempting to say when he said that life was “as wonderful as we choose to make it”. He is not the only person that believes this though. Existentialist writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald have been trying to get this point across their whole careers. Fitzgerald conveys this message throughout his novel, The Great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby, the main character in this book, is a very wealthy man who lives in the West Egg of Long Island, New York. He spends his whole life trying to find his purpose by chasing materialistic items while also pursuing the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan.
In order to make a good impression on everyone he met,
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Gatsby would do this by either spending all of his time thinking about Daisy, or doing something to impress her. One of the things that he did to impress her occurred when they were in his bedroom and he “took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them” (Fitzgerald 74). The shirts he threw out were very high-quality clothes, and they even made Daisy cry because of how beautiful they were. The reason that Gatsby did this was to show Daisy that he can support her financially, and that to also show that he could give her the perfect life. But this was not the only time Gatsby tried to directly impress Daisy. Earlier in the story, Nick and Jordan are talking about Gatsby, and Jordan tells Nick a story about Gatsby. After, she adds that “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (Fitzgerald 64). The fact that he would go out of his way to buy a mansion across the bay from Daisy’s mansion shows his commitment to Daisy, and displays how much he cares about her. Not only did he spend a lot of money on the house, but he also had to spend some time to find out where Daisy lived, in order to move close to