The Great Gatsby Dreams Vs Reality Essay

Dreams, Better than Reality Think back to a time when you wanted something so badly, you would do anything for it. You would wait years and years to have this one thing. But, when it came down to it, you couldn’t have it. In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there is an exciting journey. Jay Gatsby meets his true love from several years ago, and his dreams suddenly turn into reality. Though he receives fame, fortune and almost the girl, Jay’s dreams are better in his head. The Great Gatsby is an example of why dreams are better fantasized than actuality. Daisy meets Jimmy Gatz, a lower middle class farm boy, at age twenty-two. Right before this time, Dan Cody and Jimmy went to see the world. Dan taught Jimmy about riches and what it could do for you. Yes, there are pros, but being rich has cons. Most upper class people are …show more content…
Jay fell in love with the thought of Daisy and his abstract memories he had with her. When Jay and Daisy meet again, he realizes Daisy is not the girl he fell in love with or maybe never was. Daisy was hypnotized by money and social status so, Jay put in hard work to achieve those things so that Daisy would consider being with him. Daisy shows her true colors when Jay shows her his house and especially his shirts. Daisy starts crying immediately when Jay throws his shirts up in the air because of the quality of the shirts. Daisy is overjoyed by how rich Gatsby is and it was all for her. Jay could never fit into the world she wanted to live in because he only cared about the money for her. All Gatsby wants is to live in the past. If Jay could redo the past the right way, maybe Daisy would never have married Tom. “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”. Jay did whatever it took to get what he wanted. He threw parties, became rich, bought expensive things but Daisy turned out to be just an object “His count of enchanted objects had diminished by