The Struggles of the Pursuers in The Great Gatsby Essay

In the two novels, The Great Gatsby and The Things They Carried, Jay Gatsby and Lieutenant Cross share a common obsession with the past. Both men embellish and spend a great amount of time trying to recreate the past. Gatsby’s unrelenting love for Daisy consumes his every thought, while Lieutenant Cross’ daydreaming about his sweetheart lead to his men’s demise in the jungles of Vietnam. While reflecting on the past can be productive, to dwell upon it or try to recreate it is detrimental to personal progress. Gatsby and Lieutenant Cross both exhibit a fixation on the past which inhibits their ability to live fully in the present. Jay Gatsby’s love for Daisy never extinguished after the burning chemistry they had during their brief encounter…

The malevolent decline of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby The American Dream, established by humanity, declares that every human should have the opportunity to great success through hard work, but as the dream is merely an aspiration, it then holds great peril if delved too far for. In the outward story of a failed relationship, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby displays the American Dream as a rather idealistic aspiration of unrealistic goals in the form of an optimistic strength,…

siren of the "dream" and the poor sailor that falls victim to it. In this essay, we will explore two characters on the two ends of the scenario. “There was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour. (1.33)" In "The Great Gatsby", Daisy plays the role of the siren: She…