A man falls in love, goes off to war bathing in her memory, only to come home to find that she had married a rich man while he was gone. Hearing this, you may feel bad for this man, but Jay Gatsby reinvented himself to be a man that he believed his love, Daisy Buchannan, would love in return. However, this wasn’t the first time Jay Gatsby had reinvented himself in a better image. To quote "The Great Gatsby", chapter 6, "The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God-a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that-and he must be about his Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that
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It is also a fairly common theme in films such as Forrest Gump, Catch Me If You Can, and The Social Network. Ever since people began coming to America, there has always been a pursuit of the American dream. Whether this dream came in the form of fame and fortune or love and happiness has long been debated, but nonetheless, the American dream is that of Ameri-CAN, not …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald. It follows the story of events involving a rich man named Jay Gatsby, who comes from a mysterious background. It follows events surrounding him, including an affair, multiple parties, a hit and run and a man’s funeral, from the point of view of Nick Carraway, his next door neighbor who incidentally becomes Gatsby’s best friend (and possibly his lover). Nick comes to find that Gatsby, whose actual name is James Gatz, was born in North Dakota some time in 1890. He spent the early years of his life poor until meeting Dan Cody and changing his name to Jay Gatsby. He spent the next ten years of his life with Dan Cody sailing the Great Lakes until Cody’s death. He joined the Army in 1917, meeting the women who would hold his fascination for years to come: Daisy Fay. He then fought in the war and attended college in Oxford, where he received a letter that Daisy had married. He then dropped out and tried to make himself the man that Daisy would love. He made himself money, sometimes not so honestly, and held parties every weekend hoping to attract Daisy, whom he now lived across the lake from. This is all adequately portrayed in the quote, “The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God-a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that-and he must be about his Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and
It is also a fairly common theme in films such as Forrest Gump, Catch Me If You Can, and The Social Network. Ever since people began coming to America, there has always been a pursuit of the American dream. Whether this dream came in the form of fame and fortune or love and happiness has long been debated, but nonetheless, the American dream is that of Ameri-CAN, not …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald. It follows the story of events involving a rich man named Jay Gatsby, who comes from a mysterious background. It follows events surrounding him, including an affair, multiple parties, a hit and run and a man’s funeral, from the point of view of Nick Carraway, his next door neighbor who incidentally becomes Gatsby’s best friend (and possibly his lover). Nick comes to find that Gatsby, whose actual name is James Gatz, was born in North Dakota some time in 1890. He spent the early years of his life poor until meeting Dan Cody and changing his name to Jay Gatsby. He spent the next ten years of his life with Dan Cody sailing the Great Lakes until Cody’s death. He joined the Army in 1917, meeting the women who would hold his fascination for years to come: Daisy Fay. He then fought in the war and attended college in Oxford, where he received a letter that Daisy had married. He then dropped out and tried to make himself the man that Daisy would love. He made himself money, sometimes not so honestly, and held parties every weekend hoping to attract Daisy, whom he now lived across the lake from. This is all adequately portrayed in the quote, “The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God-a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that-and he must be about his Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and