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He
throws parties to try and fit in with the socialites
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Gatsby’s Idea of the American Dream – Ilja and Alexander and Roman–
April 4, 2007
Ø Fitzgerald uses allusion in order to make the reader empathize with
Gatsby’s character
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Also, Fitzgerald uses allegory to give the
novel a deeper, more impactful meaning
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This passage neatly
captures Gatsby’s attitude and Fitzgerald’s critique of the American
Dream
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Gatsby ‘tries to buy his way
into a society that will never accept him’ (Roman, 2007) because of his
love for the beautiful, stunning Daisy Buchanan, someone who will also
never accept him fully because he does not come from the right social
status nor money that Tom does
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He ‘attempts to fit in with the socialites’
by throwing lavish parties but they would never fully accept him nor care
about him, as shown by the fact that none of them turned up to his
funeral
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’ ‘Don’t do it
to-day,’ Gatsby answered
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This quest for the love of Daisy, despite her having married Tom
Buchanan, is but a romantic illusion
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dpuf – The
Great Gatsby – meemissa – November 24, 2010
Ø Gatsby tries to defy the passage of time and cling on to the past; even as
the autumn leaves are beginning to fall, he won’t let the servant clean the
pool, and instead decides to go swimming as though it were still the
height of summer
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Gatsby

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‘dreams of the girl he met before he went to war, and hopes to regain her’
(meemissa, 2010) but he never considered the fact that Daisy may have
changed in the five years they have been apart
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However, she has changed
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Gatsby is in a ‘romantic illusion’ and he cannot
see the reality of the situation, which is that he is simply not good enough
for Daisy
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Daisy is very fickle and flighty and finds herself getting bored
with Tom and so she rekindles her love for Gatsby by having an affair
with him
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Gatsby had crafted his
own persona and his own love for Daisy
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Gatsby is so sure that he can repeat
the past that he does not see the reality of the situation, which is that
Daisy no longer feels the same way for him and, even though he won’t
admit it, he doesn’t feel the same way back
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Daisy doesn’t discourage him either, which only spurs him
on because he feels that he may actually have a chance with her
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He is
still living in the past, where he had Daisy with him and no money
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Gatsby focuses so strongly on trying to get what he had in the
past that he cannot face the reality that he cannot have Daisy
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He also thinks that he can buy her
with his money
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He loves Daisy so much that
he cannot see how money corrupts her
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He is still chasing after the Daisy of the past, one which no longer exists,
and his is unable to see past Daisy’s beauty and money long enough to see
that she isn’t unhappy with Tom and she is now a mother
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Ø She can be interpreted as a twentieth-century siren because she ensnares
men with her husky, mysterious voice
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Her voice
contains the promise of vast riches
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There is no compassion
in Daisy, just as there is none in cold, hard cash
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Corruption of the American Dream through Materialism – unc
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However, we also sympathize with Daisy because she does not
worth a lot
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She is hoping that her young daughter will not be
very clever so that she can escape the pains that Daisy has experienced
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She loves
Gatsby more, but Tom has the right social standing and wealth, something
which entices her in
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” (Page 13) shows part of Daisy’s corruption with
material objects because she is saying that it is better to be careless and
beautiful instead of worrying about the real things
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The colours white, yellow and gold are like the flower that she is
named after
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even though she wishes for her daughter to escape the same fate, she
embraces it
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You’re worth the whole damn bunch put
together
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I would say, that he is the only person in the whole
book who is seeing the world in reality, even though he tells us what he
wants us to know
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For example, when many people believe the rumours flying
around about Gatsby, Nick refuses to believe them without solid proof
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Not even Daisy, who professed to loving him, bothered
to turn up and instead ran away with Tom, leaving other people to clean
up their mess
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He realizes the corruption that money brings and
while Gatsby allows money to possess him, Nick can see the destructive
force of it
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Nick portrays an honest person because he
does not lie or cheat
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He realises that money is not everything
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He is the only person who ‘understands that Daisy and Tom, as
well as Gatsby, only have eyes for money’ which, in the end, was what
brought about Gatsby’s downfall
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“The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard”
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Tom Buchanan, her unfaithful and rude husband,
still represents that “old” wealth which means security, in opposition to
Gatsby, who seems to come out of nowhere, the symbol of “new” (and
changeable) wealth
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For example ‘colossal affair’ (Page five) implies a
massive, impressive building with many beautifully engraved windows
and pretty fountains out front
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Gatsby has been involved in many
shady, dark dealings but none of these are shown by his extraordinary
house
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Whereas, the
reality of the matter is that the beautiful mansions only hid the ugliness
inside
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Although Jordan Baker is beautiful
and outgoing, she reveals herself bit-by-bit to be uncaring and ruthless
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However, as the novel progresses Daisy manifests her
carelessness, selfishness and apathy
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Daisy cannot
‘give up her privileges and can’t accept the accusations of bootlegging and
crime that, at a certain point, start surrounding Gatsby’ (superqueen,
2013) because she feels that it is dishonest and corrupt and it would make
her the talk of the town
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Tom is the safe
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prestige to be someone that she could be content with
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’” (Page 29) … “‘He
was a German spy during the war…’” (Page 29)
Ever since the moment Tom Buchanan married Daisy Fay, Gatsby had one
goal in life
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–
http://answers
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3V – In The Great Gatsby, How Does Jay Gatsby Change Throughout the
Novel? – The Man – 2009
Fitzgerald uses ambiguity in the novel in order to make us wonder what
he truly meant when he wrote it
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On the other hand it could also be said respectfully
because they may be feeling awe that Gatsby has the guts to ‘kill a man
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His slight
British accent is feigned
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The truth is
that Gatsby has fabricated his whole life in the hopes of getting Daisy once
more, but the reality is that Daisy would never leave Tom because she
loves the power and money being his wife gives her
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He refused to consider the fact that
Daisy may not wish to be with him anymore and believed that he was
doing the best he could for both of them
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She, however, had
changed since their young days and is now a mother and loving husband
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And Gatsby was a risk
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‘She only married you
because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me
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In reality,
however, Daisy falls far short of Gatsby’s ideals
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http://answers
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XW – Daisy Buchanan – J C – 2010
Fitzgerald uses empathy in the novel in order to make the reader
sympathize and understand Gatsby’s character
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(Page 83) He truly believes that Daisy
would leave Tom for him but the reality is far from it
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Gatsby tells himself that Daisy truly loves him so much
that he actually begins to believe it
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The
truth is that Daisy would never consider leaving Tom because she loves
the power, influence and money she receives while with him
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Gatsby is unable to see any of the flaws that make up Daisy’s
character
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She was bored because her
routine with Tom was repetitive and she needed a change, hence the
affair with Gatsby
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This appealed to Gatsby and made him all the
more certain to steal her for himself
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“‘No,’ said Gatsby, shaking his head
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His illusion could stay intact if Daisy married Tom for a
reason besides love: for financial security, for instance
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He insists on the truth of his illusion, but his illusion is not
true, and Daisy refuses to say that it is
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He refuses to see the truth of the matter, and that is
that she loves the life of luxury she leads with Tom and her social class
will decrease if she leaves him for Gatsby
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She was in love with the idea of
being in love with Gatsby, but she was truly in love with the money that
Tom provided
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He is
unable to see that Daisy only allowed the affair to continue because she
was bored and he was willing
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” (Page 85)
Ø Daisy says she loved Gatsby in the past and she loves him now
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However, her
behavior following this confrontation shows clearly that she did not love
him anymore
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– April 2, 2012
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savagely’’ (Page 85) gives us the impression that Tom Buchanan is not a
very nice man and that he will do anything to put Gatsby down a few pegs
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We are
not sure what to believe
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The line between truth and reality is a thin one
and in the novel it is often crossed
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She ‘says she loved Gatsby in the past and she loves him
now’ (Aslan, 2012), however, ‘her behavior following this confrontation
shows clearly that she did not love him anymore’
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Both
make assumptions in the true course of her love
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Both are wrong
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“‘Daisy’s leaving you
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He becomes in denial about
reality
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The truth is that Daisy would never leave Tom
because of the money he possesses
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Gatsby’s whole life has been centered around getting Daisy but once he
finally got her, the fun would be over and he would want to settle down
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She wishes to have many men after her
and would still continue to flirt with everyone she came across no matter
whether she was in love with Gatsby or not
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Fitzgerald uses
Gatsby’s assumption that Daisy will leave Tom in order to twist the
readers’ feelings of empathy and sympathy in Gatsby’s direction rather
than towards Daisy because Daisy is stuck between two men
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Gatsby is unable to believe that Daisy could love anyone except him and
‘he goes crazy…literally’ (jordanriser, 2013) when he finds out that she
loves him too rather than she loves him unconditionally
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“‘Go on
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I think he realises that his presumptuous
little flirtation is over
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Tom is very flippant and ready to disregard ‘Gatsby’s flirtation’
(Page 86) as nothing more than a fleeting fancy and rubs the fact that he
still has Daisy in Gatsby’s face
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He is so confident that Daisy isn’t interested in Gatsby
anymore that he orders her to drive home with him
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The language used
to describe the way Tom looks at Gatsby reinforces the idea that Tom is
just a man who looks down at everyone
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The truth
is that Gatsby is truly in love with Daisy rather than it being a ‘little
flirtation’ as Tom likes to think
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He has always had
everything he ever dreamed of, including the dream girl, and he has never
had to work for it
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(Page 92)
Ø Gatsby believes that money can buy everything, even love
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aspx – The Great Gatsby – thrivingfamily – 2013
Ø Fitzgerald uses emphatic diction in the word ‘brutality’ (Page 92) which
implies that Gatsby believes that Tom would harm Daisy and he feels the
need to watch over her
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Gatsby, despite the fact that his dream has
slipped away, pretends that his relationship with Daisy can survive, like a
light that’s dark only momentarily before being turned back on
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Gatsby ‘believes that money can buy
everything’ (thrivingfamily, 2013) and he thinks that he can buy Daisy’s
love
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Of course, with
Daisy this works as ‘her voice is full of money’ but it doesn’t truly buy her
affections
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Anyhow, till
they go to bed
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Although Daisy and Tom do not wish him to enter their
house so that he can watch over her, he does so from his dock
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He thinks that if he waits, and finds that Tom and Daisy have a
fight, he still has a chance of being with her
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However, Tom only wants her to improve his image
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Also, he would never marry
Myrtle, no matter how much she wished he would, because she is of a
lower social status than he is
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She had always been told that
she is the bell of the ball and that everyone should cherish her, but then
Tom doesn’t even take notice of her
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Her affair
with Gatsby does not mean that she cares of Gatsby any more than she
does Tom but although she may be unhappy with Tom she would never
leave him because she loves the wealth being with him provides her with
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“Crossing his lawn, I saw that his front door was still open and he was
leaning against a table in the hall, heavy with dejection or sleep
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past – A Deluded Yearning For The Past – David Doucette – April 7, 2010
Ø Fitzgerald uses ambivalence in order to make the reader not only
sympathize with Gatsby but also to make us feel slightly disappointed and
annoyed with his actions in chasing a girl way out of his league
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He loves a five-year-old version of her
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Willing to go to
those measures by watching her late into the night shows Gatsby had a
tough time letting the love of his life go
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He is reaching out for something that he can’t
grasp
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The character of Jay Gatsby shows the
‘fear of progressing with our futures’ (Doucette, 2010)
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For Gatsby, however, it is much more serious than
that
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He cannot see past his
own blindness where she is concerned long enough to see that she is as
happy as she can be given the situation and that she has moved on, not

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dwelled on the past

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