Gatsby’s Dream Versus Reality
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced” (Soren Kiercaard) In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald hints that a dream too unfounded from reality will only blind a man, and has no possibility of be achieved.
Gatsby was determined to reclaim the romance he and Daisy once had before he left for the war, and nothing could convince him that Daisy was forever gone from his reach. When Nick claims that the past cannot be repeated, Gatsby exclaims “‘Can't repeat the past? Of course you can!’” (Fitzgerald 147). Gatsby is so attached to what he had with Daisy in the past, he is unable to accept that the bond they once shared is no longer attainable. Nick even notes at Gatsby and Daisy’s
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced” (Soren Kiercaard) In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald hints that a dream too unfounded from reality will only blind a man, and has no possibility of be achieved.
Gatsby was determined to reclaim the romance he and Daisy once had before he left for the war, and nothing could convince him that Daisy was forever gone from his reach. When Nick claims that the past cannot be repeated, Gatsby exclaims “‘Can't repeat the past? Of course you can!’” (Fitzgerald 147). Gatsby is so attached to what he had with Daisy in the past, he is unable to accept that the bond they once shared is no longer attainable. Nick even notes at Gatsby and Daisy’s