The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald's use of events, characters, setting and values in The Great Gatsby, all help illustrate to the reader his view of the true romantic vision. Through Gatsby Fitzgerald presents the reader with a character who is trying to live his own "American Dream" by doing one thing; gaining status. To Gatsby status is, money, power, education, sex, and a background. Gatsby who starts out his life as James Gatz, grew up on a farm in North Dakota; it is here that he ended up working for a millionaire and decided from then on to completely dedicate his life to the achievement of wealth. Daisy and Gatsby meet while Gatsby is training to be an officer in Louisville; he falls in love with her. However they end up not being together, and Gatsby believes it to be because of his lack of wealth. Gatsby had a dream much like many other people do, so much like what other people dream; we often call it the "American Dream." This dream is to have everything anyone has ever wanted, money, power, a wife who loves you. To achieve this dream James Gatz felt like he had to lie and cheat. He started out as a middle class nobody, but then, by bootlegging, and other means of illegal activit
Then Tom moves on to say that he " . Also he throws huge parties at his house every Saturday night in the hopes that maybe one night Daisy will show up. It is here that Tom begins to ask questions about Gatsby's past. He never really participates in them, but more just watches and waits. Tom then decides he will do a little investigation of Gatsby, as he does not think he is who he says he is. a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. Gatsby said to Daisy, "Just tell him the truth---that you never loved him---and it's all wiped out forever. It is then that he meets Nick Caraway, a distant cousin of Daisy. His dream it seems has all of a sudden been stopped in its tracks, as no matter how much money he has, power he has gained, or education he has been through, he is still second on Daisy's list. Daisy wants the best of both worlds, and just wishes this whole argument would just go away. All he needs now is to get Daisy to love him. " This crushes Gatsby, " You loved me too?" He cannot believe that she had the nerve to say that she still loved an!d always did love Tom as well as him.
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