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Literary Analysis Essay On The Great Gatsby

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Literary Analysis Essay Of The Great Gatsby By Devan Wagner The Great Gatsby shares an impactful message in its story, representing the American dream and the perfect life. However, in reality, it’s the complete opposite. The perfect life is faced with hardships & challenges and can evaporate the concept of the American dream. Speaking of hardships & challenges, there’s a quote in the story on page 189 that states, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (Gatsby, 189) This quote to me represents the idea that no matter what you try to do to get to the concept of the American dream, those hardships, whether big or small, will stick with you no matter what, and they could …show more content…

You decide to go to your boat and place your challenges inside of that boat. Unfortunately, your boat happens to be the hub or main spot for all your challenges. The more challenges you bring to the boat, the less room there will be on that boat, and therefore, the challenges will overflow and become too overwhelming. Realistically, the more challenges you bring into your life, the harder it will …show more content…

I’m sure he needed to reflect and get some help about the challenges he faced, but it was clear that he didn’t want to. Throughout the story, Nick’s main challenge is Gatsby. From the moment he heard of Gatsby, to Gatsby’s funeral, Nick had no clear perception of Gatsby and didn’t know what to think of him. From a suspicion of Gatsby being a German spy in World War I, as mentioned on Pg.48 from Lucile, one of the two yellow-dressed girls at Nick’s first party Gatsby’s, to several mentions of him being an Oxford man, and those rather dubious phone calls he got from Chicago & Philadelphia, Gatsby’s full story just didn’t seem to add up. Plus, it didn’t help that along with the main challenge of Gatsby's whole truth, he had to deal with many different kinds of people, such as Tom Buchanan and his… equivocal love for Daisy. Speaking of Daisy, Nick also had to handle helping get Daisy & Gatsby back together. You see, before World War I, Daisy & Gatsby were in love, but Gatsby was sent to the war, and Daisy never heard from him… until it was a little too late when Tom Buchanan came in and both he & Daisy got married. Though, before the marriage, Daisy got a letter from Gatsby that we don’t know the idea behind it to this day. This past made getting Daisy & Gatsby back together a challenge, and even though they were able to, it led to more

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The Great Gatsby Have you ever wondered why Gatsby decided to come back and find Daisy? In the book, The Great Gatsby, written by Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby pursues to find his ex-lover Daisy by buying a house and throwing massive parties across the bay hoping she would wander into his party sometime. Gatsby has a true love for Daisy and he is very eager to find her so he uses Nick as a way to reel her into his hands. The main character Nick is seen throughout the novel as a bystander and Gatsby’s new good friend.

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Nick is not going to be a good person for helping Gatsby have an affair with Tom’s wife Daisy. Tom doesn’t know that Nick is helping Gatsby so what he is doing is going unnoticed, but in general, the kind of favors Nick is doing for Gatsby does not make him a good person. Nick might think as a person he is just an innocent bystander but he is the whole reason everything happened the way it did, like the reunion of Gatsby and Daisy, the death of Gatsby, etc. Tom might not know Nick is all behind this meeting but to Tom, Nick is a reliable person an example of this is when Tom is having an affair with Myrtle, Nick is tagging along because Tom just assumes Nick is reliable proven in the quote on page 28, “There is always a halt there of at least a minute, and it was because of this that I first met Tom Buchanan’s mistress.” At this point Tom knows Nick won’t tell otherwise this wouldn’t have

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He knows that Daisy is married and is aware that Gatsby does not have a chance with her. Yes, he is trying to help him out in the spur of the moment, but his decisions are hurting Gatsby long term. Even after Gatsby's death Nick finds a way to make him look innocent and like a good friend. Nick says, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy” (Fitzgerald 137). Although Tom and Daisy are partially responsible as well, Nick points the blame right to them.

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After meeting Nick, Gatsby sees an opportunity to reconnect with Daisy through her cousin Nick. When chasing a dream the typical human will use any resources to get closer to achieving that goal: in this case, Gatsby uses Nick as his resource. As a reader you can sense the potential excitement Gatsby has after realizing he may actually have a chance now at getting Daisy back. Sometimes when chasing a dream we as people do not actually consider whether or not it is attainable, this very thing is the reason for Gatsby’s downfall and eventual death. There is a battle between whether or not we should pursue our dreams and it is a rather complicated one especially in Gatsby’s case.

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though it was against her family's wishes Daisy had married Tom Buchanan by the time Gatsby had returned home. “Daisy and Tom's marriage is forced by the fact she doesn't want to love Gatsby”(WANG pg 3). Nick finds out that Daisy is

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Nick states, “He couldn’t possibly leave Daisy until he knew what she was going to do” (Fitzgerald 91). Gatsby’s love for Daisy makes every other thing and danger in this world irrelevant. All he cares about is Daisy, and he changed his whole life for her. Sadly, for Gatsby, his ignorance of Nick’s warning and his passionate love for Daisy ends up

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Gatsby is stuck in his phenomenon about himself and Daisy. Nick is very observant, he notices that Gatsby is thinking over what Nick had just said. Gatsby just wants to think about Daisy, “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of him perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy,” (Fitzgerald 4 110). While Gatsby was thinking, Nick was also thinking about Gatsby and Daisy. He knows that Gatsby wants to get back with Daisy and Gatsby is in his reality trying to get her back.

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