Examples Of Illusions In The Great Gatsby

People Prefer Illusion Wanting to be someone else is something, I'm sure, everyone has at one point or another. But, is it all it’s cracked up to be? James Gatz, also known as Jay Gatsby, is a hopeful, longing, and lusciously wealthy young man who lives on West Egg in Road Island, New York. In the summer of 1922 Nick Carraway the honest, tolerant, and in my opinion a little naive, next-door neighbor and friend of Mr. Gatsby. Over this summer full of romance, tragedy, and party-hard spirits Nick will reunite Jay with a long-lost love. Through his decisions to explain why Gatsby wanted to create his illusion, display Gatsby’s illusions toward Daisy, and convey how Nick sees people in their falsities, Fitzgerald conveys the theme in his novel

As people, some things in our lives might not have gone exactly as we planned. No matter how much we try this will always be the case. For most, when they want to escape the reality of their life, they use their imagination to create an illusion of being someone else, but what if you acted upon it? Physically acting upon an illusion is displayed mainly through the character we know as Jay Gatsby. Through Nickwe learn a lot about Gatsby and his beginnings. His name is James Gatz, he is a poor boy from North Dakota. But he views himself as “a son of God''. His parents, who Gatsby had never accepted as his own, were “shiftless and unsuccessful farm people” (Fitzgerald 77 and 78). From Nick's insight, we learned that Gatsby is an unexpecting, poor farmer's son. This further leads to the

Instead of accepting the truth about the ones we care for it is easier to make your own illusion of that person. This idea is shown through the relationship between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Over the summer in which the novel is set, Nick helps reunite Gatsby with his long-lost, perfect love, Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is characterized as elegant and charming, but also shallow. So, in the case of Daisy and Gatsby “there must have been moments… when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion” (Fitzgerald 76). This quote from Fitzgerald’s novel explains that at moments in their relationship Daisy had to do something that wasn’t perfect because no one is. Gatsby is loving and almost idolizes Daisy which creates in his mind an illusion of a perfect person, which just can’t be. Toward the end of Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship, Gatsby asks Daisy to do something that she has a hard time doing. Something that Gatsby, over their five years apart has convinced himself of. That marrying her current husband and father of her child “was a terrible mistake, but in [Daisy’s] heart she never loved anyone except me” (Fitzgerald 98). Fitzgerald is conveying to the reader that in Gatsby’s illusion of Daisy, she said that she would wait for him and his inability to accept the fact that Daisy would ever move on from what they