“I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it”.Garrison Keillor , in American author, demonstrates in his quote that he acknowledges the truth but chooses to ignore it. Jay Gatsby, a character in F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, is a perfect example for the quote. Throughout the novel Gatsby acknowledges that the love of his life, Daisy, is married and he chooses to ignore that and continues on trying to get her back.
Gatsby ignores the truth about tom and daisy’s relationship. He chooses to just deny it and go back to the way he wants his dream to happen. After the big argument with Tom and Gatsby , Gatsby told nick “He told her those things in a way that frightened her[...] and the result was she hardly knew …show more content…
He is focused so much on Daisy that he does not consider on what she wants to happen in their relationship. During Tom and Gatsby’s argument about loving Daisy , Gatsby cried “It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me!”(Fitzgerald 130). Gatsby’s love for Daisy binds him from seeing her and Tom’s relationship. It makes him think that Daisy is also obsessed with him just like he is over her. Gatsby would not consider leaving somewhere without Daisy until knowing what she was going to do with Tom ,“He was clutching at some last hope and i couldn’t bear to shake him free”(Fitzgerald 148). This proves Gatsby’s obsession by showing that he will not even consider leaving Daisy for just a moment until he knew what Daisy’s pan was. Tom asks Daisy if she has been seeing Gatsby for five years and Gatsby says,“No, we couldn’t meet. But both of us loved each other all that time, old sport, and you didn’t know”(Fitzgerald 131). Gatsby is blind from seeing the truth and he feels like he is absolutely sure that all those years he has been gone daisy still loves him the same and that she never really did love Tom, but only him. F. Scott Fitzgerald would definitely agree with Garrison Keillor about looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. Jay Gatsby knowing that Daisy was married to Tom and not him wanted that to be different, he got to be
Gatsby ignores the truth about tom and daisy’s relationship. He chooses to just deny it and go back to the way he wants his dream to happen. After the big argument with Tom and Gatsby , Gatsby told nick “He told her those things in a way that frightened her[...] and the result was she hardly knew …show more content…
He is focused so much on Daisy that he does not consider on what she wants to happen in their relationship. During Tom and Gatsby’s argument about loving Daisy , Gatsby cried “It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me!”(Fitzgerald 130). Gatsby’s love for Daisy binds him from seeing her and Tom’s relationship. It makes him think that Daisy is also obsessed with him just like he is over her. Gatsby would not consider leaving somewhere without Daisy until knowing what she was going to do with Tom ,“He was clutching at some last hope and i couldn’t bear to shake him free”(Fitzgerald 148). This proves Gatsby’s obsession by showing that he will not even consider leaving Daisy for just a moment until he knew what Daisy’s pan was. Tom asks Daisy if she has been seeing Gatsby for five years and Gatsby says,“No, we couldn’t meet. But both of us loved each other all that time, old sport, and you didn’t know”(Fitzgerald 131). Gatsby is blind from seeing the truth and he feels like he is absolutely sure that all those years he has been gone daisy still loves him the same and that she never really did love Tom, but only him. F. Scott Fitzgerald would definitely agree with Garrison Keillor about looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. Jay Gatsby knowing that Daisy was married to Tom and not him wanted that to be different, he got to be