Unattainable Things in Great Gatsby
Unattainable Things in Great Gatsby
The roaring twenties. Cars were the things to have and a party was the place to be. Everybody wanted something. F. Scott Fitzgeralds book, The Great Gatsby, describes the events that happen to eight people during the summer of 1922. In the book, people went from west to east because something they desired was in the east; unfortunately
in the end those somethings were unattainable.
I decided to go east and learn the
bond business. Everybody I knew was
in the bond business so I supposed it
could support one more single man. All
my aunts and uncles talked it over as
if they were choosing a prep school
for me…
Nick went to the east to make money. He was from the midwest, and even though his family was doing pretty well in the money department, Nick wanted to make his own money. By going from the midwest to the east, Fitzgerald shows Nicks desire to have more money. After spending the summer in the east and seeing how money affects people, he decides to go back west.
I see now that this has been a
story of the west, after all-Tom
and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and
I, were all westerners and and
perhaps we possessed some deficiency
in common which made us subtly
unadaptable to eastern life.
In other words, after finding out what the east was really like, Nick lost his
interest in being in the east and returned to the west.
Gatsby came east looking for another type of money – Daisy. Gatsby and
Daisy had last seen each other about five years before, when they were dating.
Then Gatsby had to go to war. While he was away in war, Daisy met Tom and then
married Tom. Daisy had always been rich and thought that in order to get Daisy
back, he need to have money and be able to give Daisy anything she wanted. He
found out that Daisy was in the east and went to go try to get her back.
…I thought of Gatsbys wonder when
he first picked out the green light
at the end of Daisys dock. 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.
What was never realized by Gatsby was that he could never have Daisy again. He
just couldnt accept it.
[Gatsby said] “…Just tell him the
truth-that you never loved him-and
its all wiped out forever.”
…”Oh, you want too much!” she
cried to Gatsby…”I did love him
once-but I loved you too.”
Gatsbys eyes opened and closed.
“You loved me?” he repeated.