The Role Of Loneliness In The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald takes the concept of the American dream and flips it to show that the dream will not always be the same as most people perceive it, and shows that loneliness drives the characters which leads to the destruction of lives. All of the main characters have their own view of an American dream. Daisy and Gatsby realize that money will never amount to happiness because they both feel lonely. By him taking the attempt to achieve his dream to an extreme, he has an effect on people’s lives. All of the characters visions of the American dream relate in a way.
Jay Gatsby may have a big house, parties, and money but that does not fill the void in his heart of loneliness. He became rich and he has all of the materialistic things he could …show more content…
Jay will do anything to have his dream of love with Daisy. Jay disables Daisy and Tom’s relationship by staying around there as an option for her to leave. “She had told him she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded. His mouth opened a little, and he looked at Gatsby, and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognized her as some one he knew a long time ago.”(Fitzgerald119). Tom finally sees that Daisy thinks she loves Jay Gatsby, and it damages their marriage. It hurts Tom as he sees the love Daisy has for Gatsby, and if Gatsby would not have stayed around there to try so hard, then Tom and Daisy’s relationship would have not had so much disruption in it. He even drags Nick down by having him assist himself in achieving his vision of the American dream. He gets Nick to hook him up with his cousin while she has a husband. Which brings a burden on Nick because doing the right thing does not consist of helping Jay with Daisy. If Jay would not have tried so hard, the pressure of leaving would never have created so much heaviness on her heart. He creates so much drama just to live and love with a girl he adores. In Jay’s eyes he does what he has to do, to get what he wants. Jay Gatsby will do everything in his power to achieve his conception of the American …show more content…
She finds that she loves Tom’s wealth but does not truly love Tom for who he actually has become. “Daisy lives her American dream with Tom as her husband, who has a lot of money” (American). She wants the perfect guy who has absolutely everything she wants. But Tom does not have everything she wants because she does not love him. Complications occur for anyone whom tries to find a person who holds all of their desires. Daisy thinks that Jay Gatsby carries her vision of the American dream because of his wealth and his love for her. Daisy’s warped view for money over love does not relate to the way most Americans see the dream. Tom does not treat Daisy as well as a loving husband should. Daisy’s loneliness causes Daisy to lose interest and to begin to ponder other options. She does not have true love with her husband, which causes loneliness to grow in her heart. “…Daisy and George seem to share a unique type of loneliness. They are both in loveless marriages. Daisy and Tom are alike but they don’t seem to have true love for each other” (Characters). This loneliness drives her to take steps to change her life because she does not want to live her life lonely. She has loneliness inside because she has a “loveless marriage” and will have loneliness with just his money. No matter what Daisy has materialistic wise that does not cure the void she has in her