Greats Gatsby

A detailed Summary of Greats Gatsby

A dream is defined in the Webster's New World Dictionary as: a

fanciful vision of the conscious mind; a fond hope or aspiration; anything

so lovely, transitory, etc. as to seem dreamlike. In the beginning pages

of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, the

narrator of the story gives us a glimpse into Gatsby's idealistic dream

which is later disintegrated. "No- Gatsby turned out all right at the end;

it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his

dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and

short-winded elation's of men." Gatsby is revealed to us slowly and

skillfully, and with a keen tenderness which in the end makes his tragedy

Jay Gatsby is a crook, a bootlegger who has involved himself with

swindlers like Meyer Wolfsheim, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series.

He has committed crimes in order to buy the house he feels he needs to win

the woman he loves. In chapter five Nick says, "...and I think he

revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it

drew from her well-loved eyes." Everything in Gatsby's house is the zenith

of his dreams, and when Daisy enters Gatsby's house the material

He was a child, who believed in a childish thing.

his dream. This dedication separates him and makes him morally superior

One of these examples is when the epigraph becomes clear: the four-line

ultimate misfortune. No matter what we think of Gatsby or of his dream,

Gatsby is morally superior than the society at the time, but this moral

associates with Daisy. If he can win her, then he will have somehow

Approximate Word count = 886
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels

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