Being Alone In The Great Gatsby Essay

Being alone in a huge city like New York is never person’s dream; falling in love with a married woman is never a person’s dream either. People always have issues and problems, but usually they are never fixed until they are too late. In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the character Jay Gatsby to portray the life of a rich man living a long life following only one dream. In the beginning, Gatsby is untouched by people until he meets Daisy, who touches his heart and brightens his life. The narrator explains, “The one to my right was a colossal affair by any standard-it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby’s mansion. Or rather, as I didn’t know Mr. Gatsby it was a mansion inhabited by a gentleman of that name” (Fitzgerald 9). Gatsby may have changed by the end, but he still had to get over being alone at the beginning. At the beginning Gatsby experiences his first time being rejected by anyone. Also Gatsby stated, “ look here old …show more content…
The narrator stated, “he smiled like a weather man, like an ecstatic patron of recurrent light, and repeated the news to Daisy” (Fitzgerald 94). Gatsby has never been so excited to tell someone something before. To Gatsby Daisy brightens the room for him no matter what just by her being there. Also the narrator states, “he knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God” (Fitzgerald 117). Gatsby has just kissed the love of his life, and he is so excited about it. Gatsby’s kiss from Daisy has calmed him down 0his mind no longer runs all over the place he now has a mind of God. At the end of chapters five and six Gatsby has become more open to both Nick and