The Great Gatsby Quote Analysis

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by Scott Fitzgerald. This novel is argued to be the best Novel in American literature. It's a book about Jay Gatsby. He was a charmer who had dreams of marrying the love of his life. The novel states, "He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced, or seemed to face, the whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, and believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself." Love is a theme throughout the novel. He is in love with his first love Daisy. Gatsby's love for Daisy inspired him

It also shows how doing the wrong thing and chasing something will ultimately cause trouble. For example, in this quote said by George Wilson,”...and I said, 'God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!” This quote supports the idea that doing the wrong thing and trying to chase something will cause trouble. Later in the story the person who said this will be the person who killed Gatsby. Gatsby doesn't get that what's in the past is in the past. He had difficulty moving on with life, despite the fact that Daisy married Tom. "Life doesn't come with take-backs or do-overs, and for all that Daisy seems a little dim, she gets it—and Gatsby doesn't. Daisy's never going to be that golden-white girl again." This quote further shows Gatsby attempting to get Daisy's attention, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the

They never deserved what they were given and showed it by being immature about it. For example, here's a quote from Daisy, "She never loved you, do you hear?’ he cried. ‘She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me." This quote shows how greedy these people were during this time. She married her way into the American dream, while others had to work or sell bootleg alcohol like Gatsby. This quote shows how greedy the whole world is during this time, “They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." They took from those who couldn't fight back. In this quote "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. (9.149-153) The future never lives up to our expectations—and, in fact, having expectations of it just binds us to the past." It tells us that the future you will have will never be 100% to your liking. And that having high expectations for the future can cause us to take our past for