The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald presents the life of the ‘great’ Jay Gatsby who was able to rise from “rags to riches” in 1920’s America. However, all this novel portrays such as romance, fraudulent characters, and the somewhat unattainable American Dream represent the realist premise in the novel. It becomes clear in the novel that it is a narrative of disenchantment that begins with enchantment, but then reality is exposed, making the enchantment an illusion. This, of course, leads the plot of the story in a more realist direction that exposes the fraudulence of most aspect of the novel. Thus, the novel is mainly a story of lost illusions because Fitzgerald was swift at exposing the flaws of his characters, Gatsby essentially did not achieve the American Dream when reality was pushing him back down, and the romance between Gatsby and Daisy was merely an illusion of recreating the past.
The characters in the Great Gatsby are parts of a lost illusion of those who represent wealth, status, and commodity because Fitzgerald exposes their flaws. One quote that Weinstein uses to exemplify their flaws was when Nick states, “they were careless people, Tom and Daisy, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast …show more content…
These lost illusions were portrayed through the duplicity of the characters’ personalities, the downfall of the American Dream for Gatsby, and the Gatsby’s delusion of being able to relive the past for his romance between and Daisy to be able to become reality. Truly, Fitzgerald excellently begins the novel with enchantment for all or most aspects of the story, only to later unveil that these aspects were only lost illusions. In the end, the novel’s characteristics exhibit the nature of actual reality and does not take a fairy tale approach, making the novel an exemplary literary
The characters in the Great Gatsby are parts of a lost illusion of those who represent wealth, status, and commodity because Fitzgerald exposes their flaws. One quote that Weinstein uses to exemplify their flaws was when Nick states, “they were careless people, Tom and Daisy, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast …show more content…
These lost illusions were portrayed through the duplicity of the characters’ personalities, the downfall of the American Dream for Gatsby, and the Gatsby’s delusion of being able to relive the past for his romance between and Daisy to be able to become reality. Truly, Fitzgerald excellently begins the novel with enchantment for all or most aspects of the story, only to later unveil that these aspects were only lost illusions. In the end, the novel’s characteristics exhibit the nature of actual reality and does not take a fairy tale approach, making the novel an exemplary literary