Romantic Idealist
What man can be a knight, a savior and a highly dignified man? Jay Gatsby, the title character, in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby can and is. Fitzgerald, using symbolic imagery, portrays Gatsby as a romantic idealist. Fitzgerald explicitly connects Gatsby to the Romantic Idealist as classically defined. A romantic is someone who uses the imagination, who has a strong sense of individuality, uniqueness and sometimes a quest, a goal for passion. Alternately an idealist focuses on the metaphysical and attempts to transcend reality. Gatsby is bluntly linked to these definitions. Emphasizing Gatsby’s idealism Fitzgerald claims that “Jay” sprang from his platonic conception of himself. “He was a son of god…and must be of his fathers business…”(104) He goes on to say, “…to this conception he was faithful to the end.” Gatsby grew up in a middle class family under the name of James Gats. His parents were unsuccessful farm people and he needed to create an image of himself that was, to him, more respectable; changing his name was the first thing. Another time that Gatsby is literally connected to a Romantic Idealist is his quest to get Daisy. He pursued her much like a night pursues a grail. He finds a way to make
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Approximate Word count = 1371
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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