The Undefined American Dream: Character Analysis In The Great Gatsby '

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The Undefined American Dream: Character Analysis in the Great Gatsby “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. And one fine morning [...] So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”(172). Nick is the narrator of the novel and analyzes how each character struggles to achieve the American Dream. Gatsby living in the less fashionable side of town moves to the best side of town. Nick and Gatsby just came out of the World War I and are trying to build a better life for themselves. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
Therefore, Gatsby wants Daisy so much that. “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (26). Gatsby loves Daisy so much and misses her, that he just has to buy the house and he does. Gatsby’s dream of Daisy is corrupt by money and dishonesty, the American Dream of happiness. Daisy thinks too much upon herself and not on how others may react to her judgment. Gatsby is in love with Daisy and knows she loves him back but she wants wealth in her life and so she has to marry Tom, to achieve that Dream. Furthermore, Gatsby and Daisy are together looking out the window, “‘If it was not for the mist we could have seen your home across the bay,’ you always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.”’ (92). The green light is symbolic because it symbolizes hope and that some day he might get the love of his life, Daisy, back. Daisy knows she has everything and wants everything, if she can she will be on the top of the world. Looking out the window is just an obvious understandment of the obsession of other men having towards her and she absolutely loves that. To end, Daisy has so many men in love with her, “with every word she was drawing further into herself so he gave that up- and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away--------room” (134). Daisy has let down Tom she only ever thought about herself and on no one
Firstly, Nick introduces Gatsby in the novel. “Gatsby turned out alright at the end, it was preyed on Gatsby, what fool dust floated in the wake dream of his dreams and temporarily closed out my interest.”(44) Gatsby is fills with a single dream and that is to get out of West Egg and move to the East. He buys the nicest house, car, everything because he thought that would make him happy but it does not, it destroys him even more. He has his own little fantasy of what he thinks is expects from him and to get his one true love back, Daisy. Therefore, Nick is stating a fact after Gatsby’s death about how he has hope for Daisy return. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year recedes before us. He eluded us then, but that’s no matter-tomorrow we will run faster stretch out our arms farther[…] and then one fine morning-so we beat on, boasts against current , borne back ceasly into the past.”(173). The green light represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams with Daisy in the future after coming back from the war the light is away to guide him into Daisy’s heart and a sense of goal that he has. He has to be able but as it turns out he will not. He will not grasp with the moment of being with Daisy once again. Thirdly, Nick is talking to Gatsby’s closest friend [Wolshiem] “‘when a man gets killed I never like to get mixed up in it any way I keep out, when I was a young