Ambiguity In The Great Gatsby Essay

Jay Gatsby and his Own Wonderland The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, takes place in the Roaring Twenties. Jay Gatsby is a mysterious and ambiguous character, the story of his past does not correlate with his present. Gatsby is living a life filled with what the era stands for: glamour, parties, and materialism, but also falsity. One can argue his life is an illusion of his own making. His life at West Egg is a charade to regain his once lost love, Daisy. When Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy grows, his life becomes delusional and his goal of transformation distorted, leading to his death. Gatsby lives with the fantasy that he could build a life with Daisy, ignoring the tragedy of pursuing the unreachable. Consequently, Daisy is simply an illusion that represents what Gatsby wants. Daisy Buchanan is the golden girl with a life full of luxuries. Gatsby is lured by the idea of her, not realizing that she is unattainable. “For Gatsby, the definition of love is so simple, naïve and romantic” (Bui 43). As a credulous millionaire, he takes for granted he has finally reached Daisy’s high standards, of which he was not able to fulfill in the past. His gullibility led him to believe that Daisy will love him again. However, that is untrue as Daisy is still distant even with his vast amount of money. In a scene, Nick Carraway reveals Gatsby reaching out …show more content…
His false version of reality starts to develop when he loses Daisy, the time when he becomes obsessed with her. Jay Gatsby has made his life into a charade by distorting his goal of transformation, which is now Daisy. In order for Gatsby to achieve both the money and eventually Daisy he had to go to the measure of being dishonest. Therefore, Jay Gatsby is said to have created a false reality, one that involved dishonesty- to achieve money, which would eventually give him the ultimate factor for his ideal life-