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Desire lives within all humans and animals alike; the desire to be, to accomplish, and to achieve haunts us all. Humans linger on hope, on dreams, and in the 1920s, an "American Dream" promised luxury to a young James Gatz. Born to poor farmers and living a life of pennies, little James Gatz desired more, and at the age of 17, James Gatz symbolized his abandonment of his old life with the illusion known as Jay Gatsby. As some religions believe in a maker, Jay Gatsby felt as if he were the maker, creating a precise sculpture of himself that no one could mend. For he was an art, not real, and only an illusion. His dream soon goes through an acceleration as he meets Daisy, who was everything he dreamed of being. Wealthy, of status, and had all the luxuries life could offer. …show more content…

So the tomfoolery and fakeness took a new level, and crime was involved to make Gatsby the richest of all, and soon he was. But the dream would never end, dreams get bigger and Gatsby felt an urge to keep his dream as perfect as it was in his head. With wealth and status comes a theme of corruption and emptiness. With his luscious parties, he often sparks questions about why and who Gatsby is. It appears no one knows him,for he does not even know himself. His own identity was corrupted, and his sense of time was altered. It took him 5 years to reach that status, yet he still believes his romance with Daisy will stay the same and that their innocent love will be unharmed. You can't repeat the past. Can you repeat the past? he cried incredulously, he said. "Of course you can," a famous quote often remembered in the book. Gatsby is so deep into his own lie he believes that the past can be replicated with just the right amount of

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