What Is The Theme Of Fate In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a book set in the ‘Roaring 20s’ era of the United States. This era gave forth Wall Street success and the wealth and extravagant lifestyle that came with it. The novel details the narrative of Nick Carraway, a struggling Wall Street broker and his experienced firsthand the gaudy and wasteful lifestyle that the era developed. Witnessing the opposite sides of the wealth spectrum, the old East Egg, with its traditional living and virtues, and the avant-garde West Eggs, home to new ideas, and new wealth. These two sides of Long Island wealth are represented by East Egg residents, Tom and Daisy Buchanan, and West Egg resident, the eccentric and enigmatic Jay Gatsby. These four character’s fates are intertwined and connected throughout the story, taking root in Gatsby’s mission of winning back Daisy, his love from 5 long years ago, and finally fulfilling a dream a half decade in the making. Ultimately, his plan spirals out of his control just as it is coming into fruition, and Gatsby dies as a result.
Gatsby is a hopeful man, though seemingly grotesquely optimistic, and stakes …show more content…
Despite everything, he still thought she loved him only, and nothing else, recounting that Daisy might have loved Tom, “just for a minute, when they were first married” but then goes on to invalidate that love, because he believed that she, “loved him even more then.” (Gatsby 152) All this hope was placed in Daisy and her green light, day after day he pressed on, he reached for that green light across the bay. Gatsby “believed in the green light” (Gatsby 180) and he bet his entire livelihood on