Fitzgerald does a righteous job at embroidering the era in “The Great Gatsby” to the world around him. Jay Gatsby is a man that desires to break out of his poor social rank and comes to this new wealth in the means of illegal business in order to win over his dream girl. This dream girl, Daisy Buchanon, is merely a small-minded product of the cushioned lifestyle wealth afforded and women of her generation, insisting she’s better off a fool in this world. While her husband Tom Buchanon represents the pompous arrogance and elitism the old-wealthy impose on the class system. Jay Gatsby’s lifelong desire to be Daisy Buchanon’s one true love ultimately led to his demise. A self-made millionaire, Jay Gatsby embodies the American dream. However, his
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Gatsby departs back to the war committing to the false pretenses he assured to Daisy, full of requited love. Daisy remains Gatsby’s prime focus from here on out, however seasons change for Daisy and she becomes caught up in the pressures of her superficial world. The love letters they exchange don’t offer enough comfort to her uncertainties and she chooses instead to settle down with a man that holds a title of wealth and prestige- securing her financial well-being and future family. This man was born into wealth as she, and however pompous, could offer her the life she was expected. After hearing the news of this betrayal Gatsby remains devoted and faithful to their love and his mission to get her back, as he does with his reinvented identity and destiny for glory. He strives harder to embody the man he envisioned when he was a teenager and the man he imagines Daisy wants him to be. These two men have always been one in the same; Daisy and her love is the perfect illusion in his ferocious destiny. He personifies wealth in excess, imagining that a girl like Daisy likes the finer things and the finer people, he sets out to build that reputation and the money is in the market of …show more content…
Her dreams never had to be dedicated to to become reality such as Gatsby’s. Besides their difference in will-power, their growing up in separate class systems completely instilled them with opposing character traits. Daisy didn’t choose Tom because that’s the man she desires but because Gatsby is too much of a man in comparison. However, she understood Gatsby’s illusion of her was only setting her up to fail; which she did! She was never the “nice” girl Gatsby grew crazy about during their month together, she was careless and aloof and rich. She’s unsympathetic and runs away after she turns on Gatsby for Tom, drives the car that kills Tom’s mistress, and let’s Gatsby take the fall that ultimately leads to his
Gatsby departs back to the war committing to the false pretenses he assured to Daisy, full of requited love. Daisy remains Gatsby’s prime focus from here on out, however seasons change for Daisy and she becomes caught up in the pressures of her superficial world. The love letters they exchange don’t offer enough comfort to her uncertainties and she chooses instead to settle down with a man that holds a title of wealth and prestige- securing her financial well-being and future family. This man was born into wealth as she, and however pompous, could offer her the life she was expected. After hearing the news of this betrayal Gatsby remains devoted and faithful to their love and his mission to get her back, as he does with his reinvented identity and destiny for glory. He strives harder to embody the man he envisioned when he was a teenager and the man he imagines Daisy wants him to be. These two men have always been one in the same; Daisy and her love is the perfect illusion in his ferocious destiny. He personifies wealth in excess, imagining that a girl like Daisy likes the finer things and the finer people, he sets out to build that reputation and the money is in the market of …show more content…
Her dreams never had to be dedicated to to become reality such as Gatsby’s. Besides their difference in will-power, their growing up in separate class systems completely instilled them with opposing character traits. Daisy didn’t choose Tom because that’s the man she desires but because Gatsby is too much of a man in comparison. However, she understood Gatsby’s illusion of her was only setting her up to fail; which she did! She was never the “nice” girl Gatsby grew crazy about during their month together, she was careless and aloof and rich. She’s unsympathetic and runs away after she turns on Gatsby for Tom, drives the car that kills Tom’s mistress, and let’s Gatsby take the fall that ultimately leads to his