The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald is a classic story at first glance is about money, fame, great parties, and a tragic ending to a love story. On a deeper look though it is about the struggles of a young man to achieve the true American Dream which is to get the woman he loves to be with him and live happily ever after, but of course the wills and actions of others and himself turns his life upside down. This story is so iconic because of one thing Fitzgerald based his characters off his life and his emotions. He paints his characters as a fictional version of his reality.
To start, Daisy has many attributes to her that are from Fitzgerald’s life, most specifically the women he loved. The women Fitzgerald love were rich women that were ultimately unobtainable to him. Daisy like Fitzgerald’s first love, Ginevra King, was in love with a poor boy at a young age but eventually could not be with him for several rich person’s issues. She loved Gatsby in a teen love kind of way. She would have never married him, though, because he was poor. That is exactly what happens to Fitzgerald in his love life he couldn’t be with the women he loved until he became rich because at the time he was too poor. Fitzgerald also illustrates Daisy several times in the novel as extremely of a sot after idol, which contributes to the aspect of her being unobtainable and held just out of reach. “Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, lie silver idols weighing down their own white dress” (115). That is precisely how the author viewed his two loves of his life. They are in a higher class than him and he could not be with …show more content…
He allows the reader to feel what he feels with each character. With Gatsby and Tom being Fitzgerald’s physical paper stand ins and Daisy standing for everything he
To start, Daisy has many attributes to her that are from Fitzgerald’s life, most specifically the women he loved. The women Fitzgerald love were rich women that were ultimately unobtainable to him. Daisy like Fitzgerald’s first love, Ginevra King, was in love with a poor boy at a young age but eventually could not be with him for several rich person’s issues. She loved Gatsby in a teen love kind of way. She would have never married him, though, because he was poor. That is exactly what happens to Fitzgerald in his love life he couldn’t be with the women he loved until he became rich because at the time he was too poor. Fitzgerald also illustrates Daisy several times in the novel as extremely of a sot after idol, which contributes to the aspect of her being unobtainable and held just out of reach. “Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, lie silver idols weighing down their own white dress” (115). That is precisely how the author viewed his two loves of his life. They are in a higher class than him and he could not be with …show more content…
He allows the reader to feel what he feels with each character. With Gatsby and Tom being Fitzgerald’s physical paper stand ins and Daisy standing for everything he