Research Paper On The Great Gatsby

Kyler Wolfe Ms. Parker AP English Literature 24 March 2024 The Dream That Got Away How does spending an immense amount of time on one thing, just for it to not turn out, affect one’s life? A perfect example of this is given in the life of Jay Gatsby. Spending his whole life chasing after a woman who, in the end, does not even show up to his funeral. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, told from the point of view of Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby is a rich, handsome man everyone wants to be or wants to know. “The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan and lavish parties on Long Island,” (Fitzgerald) is the steppingstone for the American Dream. But one thing is always missing, his lover from his younger years,

Daisy will always love Gatsby, but she is not in love with him anymore. How heartbreaking it must be to watch the only person you want to be with someone else. Jay Gatsby is so caught up in trying to rekindle the past, Daisy has moved on; and as much as she may love Gatsby, she will never love him enough to leave her husband for him. As a reader, this can be seen to be true in real life. Loving someone so much is driven to insanity. Doing anything to get the attention of a specific person? Going out of the way to seem better than reality for a relationship? Nick Carraway narrates the Great Gatsby. At his house in West Egg, he catches sight of his neighbor Jay Gatsby standing alone in the dark and stretching his arms out to a green light across the bay. “Green is the color of life, renewal, nature, and energy; it is associated with growth, harmony, freshness, safety, fertility, and the environment,” (Cain, William E.). “But green is also associated with money, finance, banking, ambition, greed, jealousy. This duality makes green the appropriate color for the light that Gatsby has gazed at” (Cain, William E.). Gatsby is so caught up in his wealth, but he is doing all of this for his life, his life with