False Reality In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jay Gatsby and his false reality

Jay Gatsby is mystical and ambiguous and the story of his past just does not seem to add up . The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, takes place in the roaring of the twenties. One of the protagonists , Jay Gatsby, is living a life filled with just what the era stands for; glamour, parties and materialism, but also dishonesty. Nick Carraway, his neighbour and later on closest friend, learns the truth beneath the lies. He learns about Gatsby’s extraordinary obsession with Nick’s second cousin Daisy, and most importantly he learns to know the reason why Gatsby has created a false reality for himself. One can argue his life is an illusion of his own making. His life at West Egg is a charade and all

The green light is being referred to several times in The Great Gatsby and basically it is a light on the other side of the river, coming from Daisy and Tom Buchannan’s dock. “… he stretched out his arms toward the dark water… In voluntarily I glanced seaward- and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of the dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished …” (The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald). This textural example, the narrator being the man next door, Nick Carraway, is a clear example of Gatsby; in his false reality created exclusively in the hope of getting Daisy back, now that he has everything she wanted in the pa

The green light is a clear example of the hope and reason of why Gatsby is said to live in a false reality. The green light symbolises the hope of regaining Daisy, his long lost love, whom he could not be enough for in the past. The money, which significantly, but not coincidently also is green, is another important reason of why is life is an illusion. Green is clearly a symbol the author used to profile the false reality of which Gatsby had created. Firstly, it was evident to ever regain Daisy. Secondly money and materialism was an important part of the era- the roaring twenties. The twenties was filled with parties, materialism and glamour, and in order for Gatsby to achieve both the money and eventually Daisy he had to go to the measure of being dishonest. Therefore Jay Gatsby is said to have created a false reality, one that involved dishonesty- to achieve money, which would eventually give him the ultimate factor for his ideal life-