Mansion In The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s mansion to represent the diversity and the opposition between Gatsby’s outside appeal and his contrasting inner dissatisfaction. The physical enormity of the mansion alongside the material treasures held within it portrays a sense of fulfillment to all of gatsby's guests and friends. However when the parties end and all the people leave, “a sudden emptiness [seems] to flow from the windows and the great doors, endowing [in] complete isolation the figure of [Gatsby]” (Fitzgerald, 60). The picture of one man inside of this mansion of a thousand rooms highlights the loneliness and isolation that Gatsby is surrounded by. Due to his prominent isolation Gatsby is unable to form close bonds and relationships with the people around him, which leads to his intense and lurking emotional emptiness. Gatsby’s lurking emotional emptiness contributes to his shadowy dissatisfaction with life. His mansion represents this dissatisfaction perfectly by displaying how Gatsby can have all the treasures in the world, but he is still unable to reach and build relationships the people he

Gatsby's mansion fits into this theme by symbolizing all of Gatsby’s expectations and fantasies; it is used as an outlet for his his fantasy world that he has been creating for many years “adding to it all the time, [and] decking it out with every bright feather that [drifts] his way” (Fitzgerald, 101). Gatsby believes so strongly this illusion of his life and his mansion that it begins to take form as his reality. By living in his mansion, Gatsby’s is basically living in his own illusion. This makes him incapable of understanding the real world around him as well as the reality of the people around him. His mansion puts off the illusion that he is connected to the real world when it is really pulling him farther away from