“Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow’s ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today’s eternal reality - now” (Sri Chinmoy). Today, people are so drawn to “perfect” realities that only involve dreams; dreams of an alternate world only involving peace and happiness. Jay Gatsby was one of those people. Gatsby was so engulfed in the memory he held of the fulfilling life he could have had with Daisy, he began to fail to see reality for its true nature. His heart belonged to a memory; an imaginary idea of the girl Daisy used to be. He fell in love, and he fell too fast. He had to leave for the war and lost communication for five years. After coming back from the war, he made something of himself. He
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And by the end, his heart was broken to pieces as she slowly moved away from his grasp. He tried to desperately make Daisy the girl that no longer existed, trying to accomplish his imaginary life he had created for himself and Daisy. Gatsby’s love for Daisy created a darkness around him, cutting him off from the real world. In his novel The Great Gatsby, the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald argues that love makes one blind to reality.
If Gatsby were to break free of his dream sooner, he may not have been completely overcome by love and actually able to recognize reality. He tried to create his own reality using figments of his memories in order to piece together the perfect life. In chapter 8 of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald is beginning to create his new world as he loses hope …show more content…
In chapter 5 of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald is developing Gatsby’s state of mind by describing his infatuation with Daisy. At this point, Nick says,“He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual astounding presence none of it was any longer real” (Fitzgerald 112). Fitzgerald is creating the world Gatsby is centered around; Daisy is his universe. She is his everything, she has the ability to make or break his world. She broke the world he wanted; the world he longed for. Fitzgerald is making a connection to his wife, Zelda. She was his everything; his center of the universe. His love for her made him push himself to be able to provide for her. Gatsby was portraying Fitzgerald, Gatsby wanted to make himself someone in order to make sure Daisy got the person she deserved. She was the only thing on his mind, nothing else mattered. Even just looking around the room, she was the most valuable thing in that room. Daisy was the light at the end of the tunnel and nothing else
And by the end, his heart was broken to pieces as she slowly moved away from his grasp. He tried to desperately make Daisy the girl that no longer existed, trying to accomplish his imaginary life he had created for himself and Daisy. Gatsby’s love for Daisy created a darkness around him, cutting him off from the real world. In his novel The Great Gatsby, the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald argues that love makes one blind to reality.
If Gatsby were to break free of his dream sooner, he may not have been completely overcome by love and actually able to recognize reality. He tried to create his own reality using figments of his memories in order to piece together the perfect life. In chapter 8 of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald is beginning to create his new world as he loses hope …show more content…
In chapter 5 of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald is developing Gatsby’s state of mind by describing his infatuation with Daisy. At this point, Nick says,“He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual astounding presence none of it was any longer real” (Fitzgerald 112). Fitzgerald is creating the world Gatsby is centered around; Daisy is his universe. She is his everything, she has the ability to make or break his world. She broke the world he wanted; the world he longed for. Fitzgerald is making a connection to his wife, Zelda. She was his everything; his center of the universe. His love for her made him push himself to be able to provide for her. Gatsby was portraying Fitzgerald, Gatsby wanted to make himself someone in order to make sure Daisy got the person she deserved. She was the only thing on his mind, nothing else mattered. Even just looking around the room, she was the most valuable thing in that room. Daisy was the light at the end of the tunnel and nothing else