d now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition" (Fitzgerald 69). Gatsby also worked for a millionaire named Dan Cody. Cody is a gold miner, in Nevada. He becomes a millionaire through hard work, and a little luck. Cody illustrates the annihilation of the dreamer. While Gatsby is training to be an officer he falls in love with a woman named Daisy. She is a sardonic and cynical person. Gatsby falls in love with Daisy for her youth and her vitality. He also worshiped her social position, wealth, and popularity. Daisy promised to wait for Gatsby till he came back from war but she didn't. The reason Daisy wanted to wait to marry Gatsby was because he didn't have a lot of money. Gatsby believes that he has a destiny with Daisy. In the course of the novel Carraway also finds that Gatsby earned his fortune through illegal criminal activity such as stealing. Jay Gatz is a misfit in this society. Gatz is an extremely wealthy man living in a large residence in West Egg, New York. Gatz tries to fit into this world by purchasing expensive cars; high fashion garments, and furnishes his house with costly objects. Gatsby is known for his extravagant parties on Saturday nights. Gatsby has these parties in hope that he will make friends rather that just acquaintances. At those parties Gatsby's house is full of parasites, busybody's, and fools. However, he died alone. Nobody came to his funeral to pay respects to him and his father. However Jay Gatz will never become one of "them". Gatsby is one of the richest men in New York. It has taken Gatsby almost five years to become a rich man. The reason Gatsby did this was to try and win Daisy over. Gatsby appears to be a flawed man, dishonest and vulgar. Nevertheless, Gatsby is "great" because of his optimism and how he changes his dreams into a reality. Gatsby shows his optimism by taking his dream of being rich and turning it into a reality.
Nick is used as a gateway to Gatsby's goal, Daisy. ... Gatsby's hope is destroyed by Tom's carelessness, rather then telling the truth he told Wilson that Gatsby ran over his wife. ... Gatsby did not worship God, he worshiped Daisy. ... Nick told Gatsby: "You can't repeat the past." ... Gatsby and Mrs. ...
Jay Gatsby's dream and hope is to win Daisy back, as Gatsby seems to think that she is the perfect girl for him. ... Gatsby also appears to be rich and charming. ... First, Gatsby's dream and hope is to win Daisy back, as Daisy appears to Gatsby as the perfect girl for him, so he is blindly in love with her. ... She is also responsible for Gatsby's death, because she lets Gatsby take the blame for her own mistake of killing Myrtle, and when Tom Buchanan finds out, he orders George Wilson to shoot Gatsby. ... I"ll bet he killed a man" (Gatsby 45). ...
The Great Gatsby Is his novel the Great Gatsby, F. ... But Gatsby has a dream of becoming wealthy. ... The first evidence of this is when Nick says, "Gatsby turned out all right at the end." (2) Nothing was known about Gatsby at the time and Nick is already saying Gatsby was okay. ... Nick saw the greatness in Gatsby. ... Gatsby truly was a great man. ...
There he sees Jordan and they meet Jay Gatsby. ... Gatsby asks top speak with Jordan alone and she finds out that Gatsby had known Daisy from before in Louisville and is in love with her. Gatsby now wants Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy. ... After a short while Tom becomes aware of Daisy's affair with Gatsby. ... They rush back to Long Island, where Nick learns from Gatsby that Daisy was driving the car when it struck Myrtle, but that Gatsby intends to take the blame. ...
Gatsby's Dream" Jay Gatsby, the central character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby symbolizes the American dream. ... Through Gatsby, Fitzgerald brings together both these ideas. ... Gatsby's shirts are more then just garments towards Gatsby. ... she cried to Gatsby, "I love you now--isn't that enough? ...
Gatsby, the Player -----Character Building of Great Gatsby Gatsby's greatness lies not in his prospect of his future, but in his uncompromising insistence to "repeat the past"(116), when he irremediably fell in love with Daisy. ... Gatsby's tragic play isn't a tale told by an idiot. ... That is the case with Gatsby. ... Gatsby's answer is San Francisco. ... When she sees Gatsby, her voice assumes "a clear artificial tone"(91) when she greets Gatsby. ...
In The Great Gatsby by F. ... As a main theme of the novel Gatsby's relationship with Daisy Buchanan plays an important role in showing Gatsby's excessive ignorance. ... This is where Gatsby fails. ... After Tom destroyed Gatsby's sense of life, Gatsby went back to his house to his final resting place. ... Nick, being Gatsby's only true friend, was the only one to see the "real Gatsby." ...
Gatsby's Illusion The word illusion comes to mind when describing the character of Jay Gatsby, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's, romantic classic, The Great Gatsby. The character of Jay Gatsby is shrouded in illusion. ... Gatsby himself is a master illusionist. ... Jay Gatsby is a fake, but a good one. ...
The Great Gatsby died? Yes, The Great Gatsby died, alone with no true friends, without love. ... In the novel, "The Great Gatsby", I think Gatsby should have killed Tom, thinking that he would have Daisy all to himself. ... An ending in this book that would make Gatsby happy would be that, Tom and Jordan are flirting and dancing and having fun all night at one of Gatsby's parties. ... Daisy goes about her plan and later Nick is sent to prison for life and Daisy runs away with Gatsby, rich from Gatsby's money and the money she has inherited. ...