Gatsby Romantic Idealism Analysis

A romantic idealist is someone who fantasizes about love and relationships differently than others. They plan ahead on how they will live there life in the future with their significant other, although a ton of people do that they will do anything it takes to be with that one person. Sometimes people know they will never be with that person but they still imagine their lives with them and want to work it out. In “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby is portrayed as a hopeless romantic. Jay Gatsby is still deeply in love with Daisy Buchanan after five years of not being together. Although Gatsby knows Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan. Gatsby wants Daisy to divorce Tom, and marry him so they can move in together and live happily. He asks for the help of this next door neighbor, Nick Carraway, who just so happens to be Daisy’s first cousin, to get them to meet up again in hopes Daisy will fall in love with Gatsby all over again. Gatsby is a victim of romantic idealism, who is destroyed by his inability to accept reality because he doesn’t want to let go of the past, He can’t oversee Daisy’s flaws, and he thinks he can win people over with his money.
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I believe F. Scott Fitzgerald wants everyone who reads this book to believe that you should really love someone if you are going to marry them, the book is teaching everyone a lesson about life. Having Jay Gatsby be the romantic idealist was interesting because most movies and books have the Females be the Romantic idealist, so it was a nice change. All in all the way Gatsby doesn’t want to let go of the past, he can’t oversee Daisy’s flaws, and how he thinks money will win the hearts of people are what shape the story and Gatsby’s