Materialistic Things In The Great Gatsby

In the real world, a person cannot always achieve what a person may want. As much as it seems as if one can always get what he or she wants, something’s are just not possible, but they never give up. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are many characters who want something they cannot have, but they do not know it because they trick themselves into thinking they can have it, and only focus on that one thing. Daisy, Jay Gatsby, and the guests of Gatsby’s parties are all reaching out for something unattainable, causing their desire to become an illusion. To start, Jay Gatsby has an illusion but struggles to face the reality. In the past, Gatsby had a relationship with Daisy Buchanan, but she left him while Jay went to the army and she married Tom Buchanan. In that case, Gatsby wants to repeat the past, and have Daisy back, …show more content…
In the book Daisy expresses her obsession with Materialistic things in various situations. When Daisy had her daughter she said, "...I turned my head away and wept. 'All right ' I said, 'I 'm glad it 's a girl. And I hope she 'll be a fool- that 's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool" (17). Here, Daisy realizes she now has a daughter, and she says something that really contributes to showing Daisy 's compulsion. Daisy says she hopes for her daughter to be a fool, as if that is the best thing a girl can be in the word. This expresses Daisy’s obsession with materialistic things, because Daisy says it is better to be good looking, unreasonable, and dumb, than what really matters. This shows Daisy is corrupted by the illusion that she is living in because according to Daisy the best thing in the world is to have vanity and a fool. To conclude, Daisy 's illusion is her want for materialistic things, and she expresses this by wanting her daughter to be fool and good looking, rather than being