The Great Gatsby
Adulthood, as intimidating as it may be, is inevitable. Its a part of human nature that not many people look forward to. We also like to think that once we do grow up everything will be effortless. That obviously is not the case. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the characters are surrounded with romanticism. This becomes a problem when they don’t want to face reality. They get themselves caught in a daydream that is never going to actually happen. Gatsby’s dream involves him meeting Daisy Buchannan again, hearing her revoke any feelings that she ever had for Tom, her husband, and for her to run off and live with Gatsby for the rest of their lives. But as time goes on, we see how childish Jay Gatsby really can be. He goes to
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Gatsby then brutally learns what it’s like to live in the real world. The moment one realizes the difference between romanticism and realism is the moment one can be considered an adult.
It’s part of human nature to set goals for yourself and try your hardest to attain those goals. There are also those few people who will go to the ends of the earth to achieve them. It’s an incredible thing to be so dedicated to something but theres a point where one may take it too far. Jay Gatsby did whatever he could to live up to the expectations of the love of his life Daisy Buchanan. This included some illegal activities in the process. We all have dreams, whether they are realistic or not. For most people they consist of wanting to be famous or having a career thats difficult for most to achieve. But for others, it’s finding the person they have been dreaming of their whole lives. Sometimes we think we find that one person until we get to know who they really are. Most often we romanticize them. We don’t actually love them, only the idea of them. “Possibly it had occurred to [Gatsby] that the colossal significance of that light now