The Great Gatsby Response

The Great Gatsby" follows our main character, Nick, as he meets Jay Gatsby, his extremely wealthy neighbor. Gatsby is trying to win back the love of Daisy, Nick's cousin and Gatsby's ex-lover, while trying to fight back against Tom, Daisy's husband who cheats on her with a mistress. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby's dedication to fixing his relationship with Daisy to reveal that love can blind you and make you oblivious to what is happening around you. To start off, Gatsby wanting to run away with Daisy, when she has a life already in the West Egg.

Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby was published at 1925s it was the year of the bestseller, the book uses allusions and symbolisms to present a dramatic story. The book describes accurate 20s society people’s life and the dark side. In some people's eyes, The Great Gatsby uses beautiful literary devices tells people a deeply meaningful story. There are also some people consider characters are not fully developed make it to a readable book.

Based on The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is wealthy but feels like the only obstacle that is blocking him from his happiness is Daisy Buchanan. This is shown in The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby was together with Daisy Buchanan before WWI, but as Gatsby gets drafted to fight in the war, his happiness slowly fades away as he spends less time with Daisy, causing Daisy to marry Tom Buchanan. Another example from The Great Gatsby comes from how Daisy Buchanan feels after she found out that Tom Buchanan, her husband, has cheated on her and she cannot divorce him as divorce was not an idea around the time The Great Gatsby is set in. This indicates that although Daisy Buchanan is married to Tom Buchanan, she is not glad to be with him even with all his wealth as he cheated on her with another woman. However, some may argue that in The Great Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson and her husband, George Wilson, used to be happily in love with each other but slowly breaks away as she falls into the idea that money is the answer to everything.

One of the most famous fictional novel is The Great Gatsby written by the author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel where the people are living in the fictional town West and East Egg on Long Island. The characters in the novel are Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan and many more interesting characters. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on 24 September 1896 in St Paul Minnesota and married to Zelda in 1920. Fitzgerald’s life was Zelda and writing books until he died in 1940.

Fitzgerald provides plenty of scenes in The Great Gatsby supporting the ideas whether Gatsby’s love was affectionate, obsession, or objectification. Fitzgerald shows that throughout the story, Gatsby slowly becomes more obsessed with Daisy as he draws closer and closer to be with her. By the end of the book, Gatsby becomes obsessed with Daisy. He only thinks about her and analyze everything in her life. Even in the beginning when the reader finally meets Gatsby, his obsession shows.

Love, a deep affection, is only complete when felt by two unique individuals. In this story Gatsby has become blinded by his affection for Daisy he does not stop to consider anything else but being with her. He has this illusion and fantasy he has longed for since a little boy in his dream. While he has obtained everything else, the fame, glory, and wealth he lacks one thing, a lover. He has his life all crafted out and Daisy was his missing piece.

In love, caring, and greedy, Gatsby gives up everything for someone who isn't worth his time but in his eyes she's perfect and everything he wants. Gatsby has made many plans to see Daisy and because of this people see him as a stalker but others see him in love. Gatsby and Daisy met when Gatsby was in the war. Gatsby fell in love with Daisy as a soldier at a dance under a moonlit sky the night before he was being shipped overseas. We can hear his thoughts.

Gatsby was raised to believe in and strive for the American dream. Money, fame and glory were almost seen as guaranteed to someone who worked hard. However, Gatsby's fixation with Daisy is seen throughout the novel. He had been in love with her for a very long time. Before Gatsby was deployed he and Daisy had a very flirty relationship, and he held on to that all through his deployment and years after.

Gatsby wanted to make the best out of it to show Daisy that he can fit into their society. Materialism is showed in this story because people are really after the objects. In this passage, Daisy is so focused what Gatsby has instead of loving him herself. So by Gatsby being rich, he managed to get Daisy but not her heart since she does not know how to live with money. Getting rich can give anyone the world but, if there are no special connections, then it is all superficial and it means

Gatsby is a rich gentleman for multiple reasons such as he has a organized orchestra group for his mansion parties that he throws every weekend. Gatsby throws all of his parties on the weekend because he hopes to see a girl named daisy. Daisy and Gatsby used to have feelings for each other until Gatsby became broke and she found another man named Tom Buchanan. Gatsby loved daisy so much because she was the very first nice girl he had ever met. Gatsby makes Daisy his dream because his heart demands a dream, not because Daisy truly deserves the passion that Gatsby feels for her.

Gatsby could go for any girl that is considered old money, but he only has eyes for Daisy because that’s the only girl he has ever gone for. While he was in the war, Daisy was the only girl he had ever loved, therefore, she was the only girl that he has ever tried to be with. Due to this, he has consumed his life around her and does not want to change his ways. “‘ Her voice is full of money,’ he said suddenly.” (The Great Gatsby page 120).

The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about how the interactions between money and love have major effects on the relationships between Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby. The relationship between Tom and Daisy is built more on money rather than love, however, there is little bits of love. Daisy marries Tom because of his wealth, but throughout their relationship she does, fall in love with Tom at least once. Also, Tom uses his money to basically buy Daisy’s love showing that he wants to have love in his life. The relationship between Gatsby and Daisy is also built on wealth, but it also involves love, alike the relationship of Tom and Daisy.

Gatsby says “Her voice was full of money.” This shows that he associated his love with Daisy to his pursuit of wealth and power. He wants Daisy because of the wealth that she represents. Gatsby wanted Daisy more than anything else. He could not move on.

"But Nick is clearly swept up by the idea that Gatsby 's passion for Daisy is driven by overwhelming love out of love or obsessiveness, Gatsby kept a scrapbook of memorabilia about Daisy. Money is a huge motivator in the characters’ relationships. Daisy marries and stays with Tom because of the lifestyle he can

The Great Gatsby is a very popular book, it tells history through many pages that I enjoy reading. It was written by Scott. F. Fitzgerald. Scott. F Fitzgerald lived from 1896 to 1940 and actually wrote many books.