Classic literature often has a theme, some idea that the writer wants to express to the world. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is no exception. It is a character study of the entire human race, written in the Greek style. The protagonist, Jay Gatsby, spends years vainly trying to obtain his golden girl, the one thing he can never have. Once that realization is made and his idealism is lost, Gatsby is killed. The book is filled with insights, so many that it is hard to choose just one. Perhaps the most obvious is the self-imposed restrictions the characters have. It demonstrates an innate human ability to put limits on our dreams and our lives. The unobtainable will always be the unobtainable, much like black will always be black. Our perception doesn't change. Only our surroundings.

Gatsby is in all of us. The wistful dreamy part that can't seem to let go of even the most impossible fantasies. He's o

Daisy is no better. She may not have limited herself to one person, and in fact the more people the better, but she did indeed set boundaries for herself. "And I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool" (21). She will never be anything more, and no one will expect her to be. She decided early on what she wanted out of life; a big house and a rich husband; and she didn't want anymore. Even when the most wonderful of gifts, that of unrequited love, was offered to her, she turned it down. It would interfere with her carefully planned life.

Jordan had a hard life, always trying to be seen as an equal in a male dominated world. Her desire manifests into dishonesty, which becomes a pattern that she cannot break out of. "Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever shrewd men and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. She was

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Approximate Word count = 653
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