The Great Gatsby : Sight
Sight is such an important sense to our everyday livings; not only to how we survive, but how we judge; the fronts we are meant to see, and the realities we are not. To see is to know the absolute truth, but to missee is to have the allusion of truth, which would eventually prove itself to be merely a cloudy facade. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel entitled The Great Gatsby, it is this seeing and misseeing which is the crucial factor in making and breaking the characters of its tragic story. In this novel, Fitzgerald uses many metaphorical occurrences of sight to show how corrupt and superficial the lives and actions of the characters, mainly Gatsby, truly was. Gatsby's pathetic life is reflected in his gaudy house. His house is a key symbol of aspiration reflecting both Gatsby's success as an American self-made man and the mirage of an identity he has created to win Daisy's love. Gatsby follows his American Dream as he buys the house (with it's extravagant accessories) to be acr
oss the bay from Daisy, and has parties to gain widespread recognition in order to impress her. This is all the front Daisy as well as other characters are meant to see. Yet, Owl Eyes compares Gatsby's mansion to a house of cards, muttering, "that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse (50)." Ultimately, the inevitable collapse occurs, as Gatsby loses Daisy and dies, basically friendless, prompting Nick to refer to the Gatsby mansion as "that huge incoherent failure of a house (188)". Although tainted by corruption, the characters are not themselves the ones to blame for their corrupt and superficial ways. As Nick says about Gatsby (but which pertains to all the other characters of the novel)" Gatsby turned out alright in 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 elations of men (6)". Another missight is that of the idealization of Daisy by Gatsby. After the 5 long years when neithe
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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