In the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the narrator is a man named Nick Carraway who mainly speaks about a man named Gatsby. Gatsby is a successful and wealthy young man, but carries an unrealistic expectation to repeat the past and restore his relationship with Daisy. Of the many symbolic foreshadowing done in the book, it is easy to make a decision that Gatsby is a man with unrealistic expectations, and how high they are for Daisy to live up to.
Firstly, we must explore how much Gatsby is devoted into returning to the past with Daisy. In chapter five, Gatsby had just met Daisy after five years and explodes into a wild mix of joyful emotions, “He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking …show more content…
In chapter six, Gatsby refers to Daisy, where he is told by Nick that, “You can’t repeat the past”, however Gatsby discredits this and exclaims, “Can’t repeat the past? He cried incredulously Why of course you can!” Clearly, Gatsby greatly yearns for his past with Daisy, even being ignorant of Nick’s that the past cannot be restored. A major keypoint in this, would be that since Gatsby wants to restore his past with Daisy, then Daisy must be the same as she was before. Therefore, Daisy living up to Gatsby’s old ideals would be vital to his happiness on reliving the past with her, but since she isn’t who she was like in the past, this would make Gatsby’s expectations flawed and unrealistic. To prove this, during chapter five, Nick observes Gatsby during his meet up with Daisy and finally speaking to her, “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams – not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.”, Clearly noted, Nick even mentions that Daisy could not achieve Gatsby’s ideals, due to Gatsby’s tremendous expectations. To put it together, Daisy MUST live up to Gatsby’s expectations in order to fulfill them and keep him happy, but Gatsby’s own ideals have been far-stretched to where Daisy could not meet them as described by
Firstly, we must explore how much Gatsby is devoted into returning to the past with Daisy. In chapter five, Gatsby had just met Daisy after five years and explodes into a wild mix of joyful emotions, “He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking …show more content…
In chapter six, Gatsby refers to Daisy, where he is told by Nick that, “You can’t repeat the past”, however Gatsby discredits this and exclaims, “Can’t repeat the past? He cried incredulously Why of course you can!” Clearly, Gatsby greatly yearns for his past with Daisy, even being ignorant of Nick’s that the past cannot be restored. A major keypoint in this, would be that since Gatsby wants to restore his past with Daisy, then Daisy must be the same as she was before. Therefore, Daisy living up to Gatsby’s old ideals would be vital to his happiness on reliving the past with her, but since she isn’t who she was like in the past, this would make Gatsby’s expectations flawed and unrealistic. To prove this, during chapter five, Nick observes Gatsby during his meet up with Daisy and finally speaking to her, “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams – not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.”, Clearly noted, Nick even mentions that Daisy could not achieve Gatsby’s ideals, due to Gatsby’s tremendous expectations. To put it together, Daisy MUST live up to Gatsby’s expectations in order to fulfill them and keep him happy, but Gatsby’s own ideals have been far-stretched to where Daisy could not meet them as described by