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Persuasive Essay On The Great Gatsby

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“The Great Gatsby” from the outside seem like another twisted love story with a happy ending but as the book goes on it show its true color of a fail dream. Nick Carraway is the narrator of this timeless classic where he narrates of his life with Gatsby. On the ending pages, Nick summarizes how through Gatsby futile chasing it showed how no matter what's happened he is prepared to keep going and Nick’s insight is showing what people back then believes in: “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...And one fine morning—so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back carelessly into the past” (Fitzgerald 180). This idea of the continuing after The Dream is prevalent throughout Fitzgerald writing. From the beginning of Nick narration, the middle where Gatsby is finally introduced, and the tragic end shows how the past has an important role in shaping the future. …show more content…

Present Nick is looking back in the past at what Gatsby was and how he respected him for that. Gatsby is describe as such an extraordinary man but, so he was a vulnerable person who allowed his dreams to consume him. Nick describe how he might’ve turned out well but in reality his dreams had consumed him: “No—Gatsby turned out alright at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams….” (Fitzgerald 2). Just like how Nick started his introduction of Gatsby as optimistic it all but crumbles in the end like the fail American Dream Gatsby had made

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