Lost Generation Quotes In The Great Gatsby

“The Lost Generation”

The novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, as about the Jazz Age in New York and how a man tries to turn back time to be with the woman he loves. Through our narrator, Nick Carraway, we learn what happened in the past of his cousin Daisy and his neighbor Gatsby. Symbolism is used heavily throughout the story either using colors or the carelessness of the people in the story. After the Great War, the soldiers returning became known as the Lost Generation as they suffered from trauma inflicted on them across seas as they tried to make the transition from war to a civilian life. Like the soldiers, the character are lost or become lost while looking for something. From the very beginning, we know that Gatsby
Nick and his friend Jordan Baker attend and sit at table with a man and a young woman. Nick spoke of how he was invited by Gatsby’s chauffer. The man “looks at me as if he failed to understand. ‘I’m Gatsby,’ he said suddenly.” Fitzgerald builds up his character to where it’s a monumental moment to meet him when he just pulls the plug and lets the water slowly drain out. Throughout the story, rumors and stories are shared about him. After spending a day with Gatsby, Nick talks with Daisy, and upon describing his new friend, she says “that it must be the man she used to know” and Nick connected Gatsby to the picture of a soldier in her car. Days later, Jordan tells Nick Gatsby wishes for him to invited himself and Daisy over so they could meet for an afternoon. The day is set and they meet. Gatsby becomes embarrassed and leaves Daisy alone in a room. After a talk with Nick, he returns to Daisy and the converse and head to his house next door. Gatsby soon meets Daisy’s husband and daughter. His plan is to turn back five years so that Daisy only loves him, and him only. But how can one achieve this with a child in the picture frame? Nonetheless, Gatsby demands that Daisy says she has never loved Tom. One a night of driving home, Daisy hits a woman and doesn’t stop and Gatsby takes the fault of the murder telling Nick that “he felt married to Daisy”, and this costs him his life in
When she tells Nick of her daughter she says “I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” In this quote, she isn’t just talking about her daughter, she’s talking about herself and I believe the generations who will read this. In the book, we also learn that Tom is abusive to Myrtle, his mistress just for saying Daisy’s name. It’s obvious the two aren’t happy with the marriage. When she and Gatsby meet again it’s like her whole world is thrown into a loop. And in this loops, she is torn between loves. When Gatsby is killed, she and Tom leave without saying anything or leaving an address to where they