Race And Desire In The Great Gatsby

Repetition, race, and desire in The Great Gatsby by Adam Meehan discusses the topic of race not only within the book of The Great Gatsby but within all novels that Fitzgerald has written. This article is a great demonstration of how Fitzgerald was more towards the white race and discriminated other races and religions. This article also argues with the fact that Gatsby’s love and desire for Daisy is much more than him owning her or having her as “his” property.
This article states the racism within this novel and how it has not been sufficiently explored and that due to the time period and thought process of Fitzgerald, it was clear that he has a very different racial politics than what we have today. This is demonstrated many times throughout the book with multiple characters such as Tom when he stated “This fellow has worked out the whole thing. It’s up to us who are the dominant race to watch out or these other …show more content…
After a moment I discovered his tiny eyes in the half darkness”. The way Fitzgerald had Nick describe Mr.Wolfshiem is unnecessary but due to the racism in the novel he found it requisite to use those descriptions.
The author of this article also did a great job portraying the love that Gatsby has for Daisy and how he differs from Tom. However, it does mention that although Gatsby is in love with Daisy, he is not the man he was several years ago and he realizes that he can not have Daisy. That point in particular is not true due to this quote in the novel said by Gatsby “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”. (Fitzgerald, 100) Which shows that Gatsby does not realize that he can not have Daisy and that he can not change her whole life by having her leave Tom and her child to be with