F. Scott Fitzgerald grew up in the dawn of the twentieth century in a middle-class household. After attending a boarding school in New Jersey, Fitzgerald studied at Princeton University, where he befriended campus intellectuals. After three years at Princeton, he decided to join the army, where he met his future wife, Zelda Sayre, who rejected him at first. In 1925, Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, a story that touched on the subject of the American dream as well as some of his own interpersonal relationships (Baym and Levine 963-964). The Great Gatsby is narrated and told from the eyes of Nick Carraway, a sensible man who had recently moved to New York from the American Midwest to work in the bond business. Shortly after, Nick travels from his house in West Egg, to East Egg to visit his sister Daisy and her friend Jordan. Daisy lives an expensive and proper life with her husband Tom Buchannan, an arrogant confrontational bully, who Nick had known from Yale. When Nick returns back to West Egg, he finds his neighbor Gatsby standing at the end of his dock, shadowed by his large manor, reaching towards a singular green light coming from
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As he often mentioned throughout his narration, “his smile was one of those rare smiles that you may come across four or five times in life. It seemed to understand you and believe in you just as you would love to be understood and believed in.” (Great Gatsby). This quote emphasizes how the outside world saw Gatsby, a pure idea that dissolves over the course of the story. Slowly Gatsby’s character collapses, as his fantasy of Daisy begins to stretch further from reality, and yet he is never willing to accept this. The wonder of Gatsby’s smile disappeared, as Gatsby no longer threw parties and his house became empty and quiet. Gatsby still handled his business, however his patience for it grew thinner which took a toll on his relationship with
As he often mentioned throughout his narration, “his smile was one of those rare smiles that you may come across four or five times in life. It seemed to understand you and believe in you just as you would love to be understood and believed in.” (Great Gatsby). This quote emphasizes how the outside world saw Gatsby, a pure idea that dissolves over the course of the story. Slowly Gatsby’s character collapses, as his fantasy of Daisy begins to stretch further from reality, and yet he is never willing to accept this. The wonder of Gatsby’s smile disappeared, as Gatsby no longer threw parties and his house became empty and quiet. Gatsby still handled his business, however his patience for it grew thinner which took a toll on his relationship with