The Great Gatsby Analysis

The Great Gatsby was published in 1925 by F. Scott. Fitzgerald. The story is based in 1922 on Long Island and follows a man Nick Carraway on his way to becoming a writer. Nick lives in West Egg and becomes acquainted with his nearby souls, a eccentric, colorful and chaotic group of people that he continues to associate with throughout the entirety of the book. The main plot line revolving around Daisy Buchanan, Nick’s cousin, and Nick’s neighbor, Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is a man who orders his life around one desire: to be reunited with Daisy, the love he lost five years earlier. Gatsby's quest leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved, and eventually to death. The overlaying theme of displaced spirituality is subtly woven …show more content…
How can he win the affection of Daisy, Gatsby asks himself at the end of the pier, transfixed upon the intermittent green light on the horizon. Behind him, a party roars; a wild flurry of dance and drink and intellectual discourse. Gatsby dismisses his own guests with contemptuous blithe; it is a party filled with everybody and nobody. Most importantly, without Daisy, it means nothing to him. Fitzgerald implying that Gatsby may really love her, for he cannot even enjoy himself to any extend without her presence, which may in its own may really be love. For another human to be that essential to another's happiness it may imply real love felt by the person in question, and Gatsby's happiness really does rely on the amount of affection that Daisy will give to him, this may mean that Gatsby deep down loves Daisy, not the idea of her, but her actual …show more content…
He wants her so bad he changed his entire life story to please her. He went from dirt poor, to extravagantly rich just so he could run in the same circles as her, to become more acquainted with her, and eventually try to woo her. For Gatsby, to change his life so drastically and intensely for a woman that he hes even the slightest doubt about loving would be absolutely profound. He must of at some point really believed that he loved Daisy. At least when he first met her and started his crazy transformation from rags to riches. In Gatsby’s mind, the best a person can be is affluent, highly wealthy with a rich upbringing and upper class family that goes back as rich for generations. He simply assumes that his perfect version of himself will be Daisy’s perfect version of himself as well. With assumption in mind Gatsby transforms himself, try to be the most perfect version of himself he can possibly