The Great Gatsby Quote Analysis

The great Gatsby

Nick Carraway starts off the book by telling the advice of his father. “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantage that you’ve had’”. (Fitzgerald, pg. 7). In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, Fitzgerald creates an artificial world where all the characters sole purpose in life is money, wealth and power. The corruption of the American dream is through materialism freedom, equal opportunities, and the chance everyone to succeed by the ambition in their hearts. The American dream became a mindset in all who set
Tom sees himself as the best and sees himself as superior to everyone and especially Daisy, which is why he goes around and shows off his relationship with Myrtle. Daisy does the same with Gatsby. The way Tom treats Myrtle is worse than the way he treats Daisy. “Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.” (Fitzgerald, pg. 39) This quote shows that Tom didn’t really care about Myrtle and Myrtle didn’t care about that because she was mainly only with Tom because he was rich and wanted an escape from poverty. In a way both Tom and Myrtle were only using each other and didn’t love each other. Daisy has power over everyone. She is married to a rich guy, Tom, and lives in the East Egg and is considered ‘old money’. She even has power over Gatsby. Gatsby is still in love with Daisy even after 5 years, where Daisy has already married a rich guy. Daisy didn’t care much about Gatsby. “Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily. ‘They’re such beautiful shirts,’ she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. ‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen- such beautiful shirts before.’” (Fitzgerald, pg. 89) The quote proves that Daisy is very materialistic. She is more impressed with Gatsby’s things then him. This also shows why Daisy didn’t even go to Gatsby’s funeral. She didn’t care about Gatsby. Tom and Daisy didn’t care much about their
Getting Daisy was Gatsby’s American Dream. When Gatsby was poor Daisy could not marry him so he had to work hard to achieve his dream. He built himself from nothing and made a lot of money in a short time. It was of course through illegal work but no one seems to care that much about that. He surrounded himself with money and material possessions, which he thought would help him get Daisy back in his life and will make Daisy love him. “He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know it was beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.” (Fitzgerald, pg. 171) But Gatsby’s dream dies. He was so close to getting Daisy but he couldn’t get her to be with him even with his huge mansion and wealth. Gatsby wants to recreate his past with Daisy in Louisville but he’s incapable of that and when his dream crumbles all there is left for Gatsby to do is to die. This shows that money cannot buy