Armani Sheriff Mr. Kelly English 07 March 2023 Gatsby’s Dream “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (Fitzgerald 156). The idea of love can make use of completely different people going against our currents. The novel, The Great Gatsby, was written in 1925, amidst the Roaring Twenties. F Scott Fitzgerald writes about the American Dream, and how it’s an unreachable idea that was secretly corrupting the rich. Gatsby’s idea of love is more dream than reality and it’s the most consequential symbol throughout the novel. Three years after Gatsby left the war, he earned enough money to buy a house. It wasn’t just any house, it was a great mansion alongside the bay of the West Egg. "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay" (Fitzgerald, 78). His American Dream for Daisy had led him there and it furthermore would be the main focus of his parties. These grand parties were a center point during the ’20s, and Gatsby would use them to, one day, attract Daisy’s love. When she finally welcomed his love, the parties abruptly stopped, as Daisy had finally taken his love through his abundance of luxury. …show more content…
Her decision to marry Tom rather than Gatsby was purely based on her love for luxury, compared to Gatsby, who was not as prosperous. This sparked her overdramatic sense of lust for money and wealth. In Chapter 6 it mentions "They 're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. "It makes me sad because I 've never seen such—such beautiful shirts before." (Fitzgerald 92). Gatsby’s flaunting of clothes seems to take over her, bringing her to tears. This is in fact her real love for Gatsby, and reflects Gatsby’s love of wealth, and how this obsession has taken over the