The Great Gatsby
The American Hero
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” the protagonist is a typical American Romantic Hero. Jay Gatsby is truck by true love the moment he meet the beautiful Daisy until the moment he dies. Gatsby gives his life for her, he’s living and breathing for this one girl; everything he does in this novel is for her. He attains power and accumulates wealth simply so that he can see her, be among her and her friends because of her social status. He buys a house right across from her on the bay. All he wants to do is conquer Daisies heart. This unstoppable desire and love makes him do the unthinkable and that defines an aspect of an American Hero. Before the war they fell in love when he was drafted and had to go off to war. He was a courageous soldier receiving many medals of honor only to find Daisy married upon his return to some old money man who doesn’t respect and love her as he does. This unsatisfied and broken love for Daisy drives Gatsby to start a franchise so he could become wealthy and powerful so he can climb the social ladder. He wants to be with Daisy so badly that he becomes a secretive criminal business man. Daisy also seemed so close to being his that he kept driving forward in his criminal lifestyle. This focus on winning Daisy became such an obsession that he became fully immersed in a criminal mindset. Daisy seemed to be in his grasp but in real she kept slipping further away as he plummets deeper into greed, power and vanity. He lost his drive for her love and so he lost her. This criminal behaviour drove this wonderful romantic hero straight down the rabbit hole of his obsession: “Gatsby wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered . . . that thing was” (114).
In “the Great Gatsby” the circumstances are set in direct correlation to Jay Gatsby, the Romantic Hero. To exhibit the creative and rebellious society
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” the protagonist is a typical American Romantic Hero. Jay Gatsby is truck by true love the moment he meet the beautiful Daisy until the moment he dies. Gatsby gives his life for her, he’s living and breathing for this one girl; everything he does in this novel is for her. He attains power and accumulates wealth simply so that he can see her, be among her and her friends because of her social status. He buys a house right across from her on the bay. All he wants to do is conquer Daisies heart. This unstoppable desire and love makes him do the unthinkable and that defines an aspect of an American Hero. Before the war they fell in love when he was drafted and had to go off to war. He was a courageous soldier receiving many medals of honor only to find Daisy married upon his return to some old money man who doesn’t respect and love her as he does. This unsatisfied and broken love for Daisy drives Gatsby to start a franchise so he could become wealthy and powerful so he can climb the social ladder. He wants to be with Daisy so badly that he becomes a secretive criminal business man. Daisy also seemed so close to being his that he kept driving forward in his criminal lifestyle. This focus on winning Daisy became such an obsession that he became fully immersed in a criminal mindset. Daisy seemed to be in his grasp but in real she kept slipping further away as he plummets deeper into greed, power and vanity. He lost his drive for her love and so he lost her. This criminal behaviour drove this wonderful romantic hero straight down the rabbit hole of his obsession: “Gatsby wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered . . . that thing was” (114).
In “the Great Gatsby” the circumstances are set in direct correlation to Jay Gatsby, the Romantic Hero. To exhibit the creative and rebellious society