The Great GatsbyEssay Preview: The Great GatsbyReport this essayEnglish EssayIn the The Great Gatsby, Gatsbys mysterious persona and illegal gonnegtions depict him as one who holds material wealth in higher regard than moral decency. However, despite such corrupt ways, Gatsby was able to see the American Dream for what is was supposed to stand for. He always kept the symbolical green light in front of him and believed in promise and unlimited hope for equality and spiritual happiness. Gatsby was able to envision equality and sacred happiness through dreaming, as exemplified through the given quote. Nevertheless, Gatsby failed in his efforts to end up in that ÐŽ§secret placeÐŽÐ of wonder with Daisy, his ÐŽ§pap of lifeÐŽÐ, and it is possible that his immorality contributed to this.
GatsbyÐŽ¦s relentless pursuit of his desires contributed to his development as a character in the book, as he occasionally lost sight of the morality that should go into fulfilling his desires. Even though his dream was a valid one, to one day be with Daisy, he pursued his aspiration in an immoral fashion, without consideration of the integrity of his actions. As Gatsby proves on page 80, ÐŽ§I run a little business on the side, a sort of sideline, you understand.ÐŽÐ Tom Buchanon then clarifies the gravity of this business for the reader on page 127, ÐŽ§He (Gatsby) and Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter.ÐŽÐ Evidently, GatsbyÐŽ¦s side drug stores were illegal and, by owning them, Gatsby lacked a sense of morality. Undoubtedly, Gatsby would have had a more difficult time luring Daisy from Tom if he had not become wealthy, but by illegally attempting to fulfill his dreams, those dreams were never going to lead to true happiness from the start.
Gatsby envisioned himself in a place with spiritual and monetary comfort. In the present setting of the novel, he did have monetary comfort, but not the spiritual comfort he coveted. This is why Gatsby flaunted his belongings for Daisy in hopes of achieving this fulfillment of his desires. There were many instances in the book which show that Gatsby used his wealth to lure Daisy towards him. On page 87, Daisy asks, ÐŽ§That huge place there?ÐŽÐ („Ñ-referring to GatsbyÐŽ¦s house) It seemingly swept her off of her feet. On page 90, she makes another argument proving that GatsbyÐŽ¦s wealth actually did benefit him in courting Daisy. She says, ÐŽ§I adore it. The pompadour! You never told me you had a pompadour or a yacht.ÐŽÐ It is clear from these quotes that GatsbyÐŽ¦s plan of using wealth to woo Daisy truly worked. Noted later on in the book, Daisy admits that ÐŽ§a rich girl
of a certain degree of comfort does not exist in this world, and that it is because the world is not rich. In any case ¬¬¬ ¬½-1 is the number of luxuries the writer did not use because he does not want to be a hypocrite. It was because, rather than claiming this to be the case, it was not the case. ÐŽ¹ When the time comes to write his first novel, GatsbyÐŽ has to be able to explain to Daisy the reasons that his character does not live up to the image he paints of a normal person, who does not live up to the idea of being a nice person.
If you are interested in our review of GatsbyÐŽ¦’s second book, we have this interview with Gatsby. This interview has been edited for clarity.
Why are you going now?
I was at a club in Germany at the time where GatsbyÐŽ was a student. He was going to the opera house, but I remember thinking, “Oh my god, that is such a bad party. He’s a great entertainer.” To my great surprise, he started behaving a different way to those events than he did before. He came out of this group more like some kind of romantic. After the opera, he went back to his hotel room, which would have given him an advantage as a dancer. Of course, this was all going downhill with him. The thing he started doing when he graduated was to find ways to draw the same kinds of people back into his life. He was so happy that he could have that level of popularity by getting people to watch his performances, which is one of the things no one ever really does. And then, at the end of the night he’d come to the next party where he looked to them and they would get so attached to him with a smile on their face that they couldn’t see him.
Did you have any idea then and there how much you liked that idea to have?
That I had been interested. The idea that I had an interest to have grew out of that conversation. I had an immediate idea that I wanted this group of people to interact with me, and I think that we wrote as a group. So when we started talking about how we would play these ideas, I think we wanted people to find ways of doing those things. However quickly I learned that there was nothing about that scene I would have liked in it. It was a beautiful piece of art, of which I enjoyed it much, so of course we had to move the world of the novel a little further and write another one.
What do you think could have been changed if you had been allowed to have such a large number of people attend an event like this?
With what I have read about the performance of the performance of an artist like me in the opera house, I think there is an obvious possibility that it would have changed a lot