Greek Gatsby Essay
Gatsby's expectations of his relationship with Daisy are extremely high, and very unrealistic. In his relationship with Daisy, it seems that all he wants is for the last four years to be completely erased with a simple 'I never loved you' to Tom. He wants to have that same connection and bond that he had with her when they were much younger. Especially in this he is obsessive - he doesn't seem to realise (as the romantically obsessed often are) that his dream is just that, and that reality is quite nearly impossible.It seems as if he is yearning for some indefinable quality that they shared together - for her to be able to 'understand' and to repeat the past with him. His reminiscing with Nick shows how idealised his image of his romance with Daisy has become: 'she blossomed for him like a flower'; and even the description of an idyllic summers night shows just how unrealistic his expectations are. Nick recognises this, yet at the same time there is the sense that what Gatsby is saying isn't completely false and there is some reality hidden under Gatsby's illusion of Daisy ('I was reminded of something...uncommunicable forever').In pages 105-107, we begin to really get a glimpse of how obsessed Gatsby really is. Ther
Deep down most people would like to live it over again, just like Gatsby. He also feels depressed on meeting Tom properly, and on seeing how far apart their social crowds still are (even after all his effort) - the cold hard reality is almost sinking in. as though I was talking to a child'). He concludes the novel, fittingly, by applying this to all of mankind - saying that every person deep down would like to repeat the past, and this is what takes us into the future. The most obvious example of this would be their treatment of Gatsby - despite that she loves him, Daisy is not willing to risk anything for his potential happiness; and Tom sends a person he knows would be a potential killer right to Gatsby's door. Throughout the whole novel they treat people and possessions like a child would treat a doll - just play with it and then toss it aside ('. The daughter has a nanny, and never sees her mother. It is a fitting conclusion to the novel in that Nick starts out by talking about how the reason that Gatsby was great was his 'gift for hope' and his eternal optimism. When Gatsby first saw that green light, it represented to him Daisy, and at that point in time, showed just how close his dream was. However after this his hope and optimism returns (his 'rare gift') and his dream is rebuilding itself. For humans, memory is selective and a lot of the time, the past is this beautiful thing, where we were so much happier.
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