Log in Sign up. What are the themes of The Great Gatsby? The Great Gatsby is about the American dream. The Great Gatsby is about wealth. The Great Gatsby is about love. The Great Gatsby is about death. The Great Gatsby is about social class. Jay Gatsby illustrates a prime example of this. The entire book revolves around his one selfish desire to be with the woman he loves, Daisy Buchanan.
Gatsby is well aware that Daisy married Tom Buchanan, but that does not stop him. Gatsby and Daisy begin seeing each other and spending a great amount of time together. A secret love life is not enough to satisfy Gatsby. Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream 'The pursuit of happiness'.
Jay Gatsby longs for the past. Surprisingly he devotes his adult life trying to recapture it and dies in its pursuit. In the past, Jay had a love affair with a young rich girl, Daisy. Daisy and Jay had fallen in love with each other in spite of knowing that they could not marry because of the difference in their social status. Fitzgerald " At this point time Gatsby is thinking completely delusional thoughts about how Daisy has always been his, she was just using Tom as a filler until she could be with him, but what Gatsby wasn 't expecting was that Daisy truly loves Tom more than she loves him.
Gatsby is having a very hard time trying to grasp the concept that Daisy is no longer his. Gatsby is going crazy over his old relationship with Daisy, he wants her by his side and he can 't handle the fact that she doesn 't want to be his anymore.
Gatsby is grasping at straws of the past and what could have been with Daisy, he refuses to let the past be left in the past. In Adam Meehan 's paper Repetition, Race, and Desire in The Great Gatsby "And, as we have seen, Daisy is only an object-manifestation of Gatsby 's deeper desire; because it is not Daisy, but a reconstituted version of himself that he seeks, Gatsby 's dream inevitably "fails" shortly alter he and Daisy reunite.
Something to work for, or else life becomes boring as Daisy points out many times in the novel. Gatsby tries to convince Daisy that she loves him and only him, yet Daisy actually loves them both.
She believes it is the best thing for her, but does not think of how being marrying so young might affect her. According to Nick; "For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras She wanted the best, richest, good-looking, most powerful bachelor in town.
Eventually, through Nick, Gatsby meets Daisy again, and they begin to visit each other frequently. Behind the wheel, Daisy strikes and kills a woman standing in the road. Before this fact is revealed, though, Gatsby assumes responsibility for the manslaughter in order to protect Daisy. Tragically, Gatsby feels so obligated to protect Daisy that he literally takes the bullet for her.
Although Gatsby may love Daisy more for what she represents than for who she is, this act of effectively sacrificing his own life to save hers can only be characterized as love.
Those who believe that Gatsby never truly loved Daisy argue that he was more obsessed with the promise of status she provided. In each of these novels, massive fortunes and beautiful socialites stand as representations of the American dream. Rather than real humans with human emotions and free will, Gatsby and Daisy are pawns in an allegory of the greed and excess of the s in the United States. After all, The Great Gatsby is just a book. Its characters do not exist beyond the page description that Fitzgerald provides.
However, love is the only way in which anyone could describe the unshakeable affection and obligation to protect that Gatsby feels for Daisy. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the story of the hardworking and driven Jay Gatsby as he claws up the ladder of social class during the summer of As it is revealed throughout the novel, the sole purpose of his efforts is to gain the affection of his past lover Daisy Buchanan, whom he deserted five years earlier to go to war. Gatsby, in fact, is never capable of loving her at all; he was born with a life and status too drastically different from hers to ever really connect with her in a true, romantic way.
Rather, he loved the idea of Daisy and what she stood for.
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