There are wants and needs all over the world. Those who go to bed hungry day after day need nourishment. Others have their needs satisfied but want more fulfillment. Some become laid-off from work and try unsuccessfully to find a job, any kind to support their growing family. A number of others have the best job they can ask for but are not happy One aspect of all their lives is a dream. A belief that the future will be grand. They look for some omen to spark a glimmer of hope in their eyes. They live their life thinking the next day will be better. Tomorrow will be the day when I go to bed full. Tomorrow I will find fulfillment. Tomorrow I will start a job. Tomorrow will be my happy day. So they go on. Day after day of struggles, always saying
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The Great Gatsby tells the audience that it is great to have ambitions and goals for one’s future, but one cannot change their origins. Jay Gatsby is a perfect iteration of this idea. His whole life was about changing the future to match the past. In doing so, Gatsby alienated almost everyone and caused them to not care about him. The only characters who attended Gatsby’s funeral were Nick, Gatsby’s father, and Gatsby’s servants. All the people who came to his parties did not even blink an eye at his death except that they could not get into his house. Even the men he did business with did not try to grieve. Nick had the opposite effect as a character. Nick lived in the present with ideas that the future could be better, but not if he did not work for it. He did not care about what others thought and only dreamt about what was going on around him. The man accepted his past as over with and continued on in life with the repercussions and goals made from his actions, but he was satisfied with the way his life was turning out. The question comes down to which is more important, one’s dreams or one’s satisfaction? Gatsby believed the answer was his dreams. Nick thought it was more his satisfaction. There is really no right or wrong answer, but it just comes down to which life one is more intent on living because only one’s self can change the path one travels and this comes down to one’s
The Great Gatsby tells the audience that it is great to have ambitions and goals for one’s future, but one cannot change their origins. Jay Gatsby is a perfect iteration of this idea. His whole life was about changing the future to match the past. In doing so, Gatsby alienated almost everyone and caused them to not care about him. The only characters who attended Gatsby’s funeral were Nick, Gatsby’s father, and Gatsby’s servants. All the people who came to his parties did not even blink an eye at his death except that they could not get into his house. Even the men he did business with did not try to grieve. Nick had the opposite effect as a character. Nick lived in the present with ideas that the future could be better, but not if he did not work for it. He did not care about what others thought and only dreamt about what was going on around him. The man accepted his past as over with and continued on in life with the repercussions and goals made from his actions, but he was satisfied with the way his life was turning out. The question comes down to which is more important, one’s dreams or one’s satisfaction? Gatsby believed the answer was his dreams. Nick thought it was more his satisfaction. There is really no right or wrong answer, but it just comes down to which life one is more intent on living because only one’s self can change the path one travels and this comes down to one’s