Gatsby's Devotion
The story The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, takes place in the roaring twenties, an era of good times where parties, music and happiness flourished all over the nation. It is the story of a man named Jay Gatsby who is on what he sees as a mission to retrieve his former love Daisy. Gatsby is a poor man who feels that he can win her back, if he achieves enough material wealth. He sees getting Daisy back as part of finally getting his American Dream. His whole life he has been chasing his American Dream of being happy and after he has attained this immense wealth he thinks he can get anything and everything. He becomes corrupt to achieve what he sees as the American Dream.When he first meets Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby has "committed himself to the following of a grail" (156). He would do anything in his power to win her love back, after five years of separation. Everything he has done, up to this point, has been directed toward winning Daisy's favor and having her back in his life. The greatest example of his devotion towards Daisy is the mansion he has constructed, "a colossal affair by any standard...with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool,
From a young age Gatsby corrupts himself because he is distressed with his social status. He always wishes he was born rich, as Nick says, "his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents" (104). He wants to improve his way of living, but at the same time, he feels that he can't move up in society. When he does more immoral deeds later in his life he tries to justify them by saying that they were all for the love of Daisy. This is not true. He does everything to better his social standing. When he changes his name, he takes the first step towards reinventing himself into a person he saw in his dreams. He is corrupt before he meets Daisy, and he becomes more sinister in his quest to get her back. Daisy seems so unobtainable to him and that makes him want her more and more. Everyone pays a price for what they have done. Gatsby's price is Death. Gatsby places more importance on his dreams than on his actual experiences. By doing so he builds up his own imaginary dream world so ideally that he can never accept the fact that Daisy is never going to leave Tom for him. His blindness plays a major role in his character and leads to his ironic death. While he is trying to protect Daisy, Wilson, who is avenging the death of his wife Myrtle, kills Gatsby. Wilson does this in a sudden seizure of anger, afte
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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