The Great Gatsby Analysis

“He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.” (Fitzgerald 117) In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald loves winding sentences that begin with one idea, person, or location and end up somewhere else entirely. He connects his thoughts in such an amazing manner by using diction, similes, syntax, and rhetorical strategies to convey his message and understanding of his novels’ qualities. Gatsby, Wilson, and Myrtle’s powered hopes for their American Dreams cause them to have pain when they could have been more content with more modest ambitions if they had been less disillusioned and more realistic at what was achievable.
The American

It began as a plain but revolutionary notion that signified that each person has the right to pursue happiness, and the freedom to strive for a better life through hard work and fair ambition. But in The Great Gatsby, the dream for the characters came to represent a set of expectations about making money to belong to the higher class and getting what they wanted however possible. Jay Gatsby put his American dreams into the acquisition of Daisy. He links his attainment of his dreams to the attainment of his true love for her. He knew the only way he would make her his was by becoming wealthy and respected in order to accommodate to what Daisy wanted and have his life back how it was five years ago. Nick recognizes Gatsby’s obsession to recreate how everything was before. “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea, of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once

It became what the poor sought for in life and defined the materialism in people: to become rich and have the perfect life with the perfect person. George Wilson was the owner of a garage in the Valley of Ashes, which emphasizes that he was rather poor. The only hope for him to start a new and better life with his wife Myrtle was Tom selling his car to him. Financially the car means very little to Tom, but to the impoverished Wilson it meant hope for a better future. What he had no clue about was that Tom did not intend to sell his car and that it was just an excuse to show up there to have access to Myrtle. He used his power (money) to gain the respect and politeness from Wilson and dangled his reasonable wealth just out of reach of him in order for Tom to gain contact with his wife. Tom acknowledges Wilson’s cluelessness about his affair by stating that he is “so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive.” Wilson proves to have a fairly good understanding of what exactly is going on, but Tom is too pretentious to grant his social inferior that recognition. He seems to push anything that seems out of place to the back of his mind because the only way of gaining access to his dream is the car that Tom has offered to sell