False Hope In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is set in New York in the 1920s. It is about a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby who lives in a massive mansion on the west end of the Long Island Sound and hosts huge parties for anyone to attend. A man named Nick Carraway, coming from the Midwest, moves into a little house adjacent to Gatsby's mansion. Right across the Long Island Sound from Gatsby, lives the wealthy Daisy and Tom Buchanan. Eventually, Nick discovers that Gatsby and Daisy used to date in their teenage years and that Gatsby still loves her. After learning this information, Gatsby asks Nick to reunite the two. Eventually, Daisy and Gatsby fall back in love, and Tom finds out. He investigates Gatsby and discovers he is a criminal and confronts him in

Throughout the novel, Gatsby's delusional dream of loving Daisy is unraveled and eventually falls apart completely. F. Scott Fitzgerald establishes the themes of false hope, love, and the class divide through his characters and their actions in The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald establishes the theme of false hope through his characters and their actions in The Great Gatsby. The theme of false hope is best portrayed through Jay Gatsby himself. In the novel, the readers get more context into Gatsby's love for Daisy and his true obsession with her. Gatsby builds himself up and becomes rich just to buy the mansion directly parallel to hers. Jordan tells Nick that ‘“Gatsby bought that house so Daisy would be just across the bay’” (Fitzgerald 78), disclosing his obsession with her. In addition, he throws elaborate parties hoping she will show up to one of them and be impressed. Jordan confirms this when she again tells Nick, ‘“I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties some night”’ (Fitzgerald 79), again expressing his want for