The great gatsby analysis
In Great Gatsby novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald the character is created from the lower-income class citizen and with a dream to become rich and powerful after he has met Daisy and he has a reason to fulfil his dream and earn money, fame, wealth and power. The background of Gatsby remains bleak as no one knows what exactly happened in the past. Some rumours from Jordan state that he killed a man back in those days and he did inherit some kind of property but the real truth is that he made and gained everything by his own. Even in the novel lies come back and forth what makes Gatsby great is that he has gained and made what he has ever dreamed of. He was a normal poor citizen in the past living in a farm and belonging to a lower class by the name of James Gatz. He left everything behind to fit the upper-class and become another person. His father didn’t even know how far Gatsby would go and how fast he could reach the levels of being such a great person. The only thing that comes out from the novel is that Gatsby never did the right thing to gain what he got, but he had a good heart with everyone on what he was doing.
During the novel we see Cody, who was the one that accepted Gatsby for his ambitions and dreams and had him as his son. When he first left the farm at the age of seventeen Cody was the one person and only that gave him what his dream of the world was by. Finally, he inherited Cody and that is one of the prominent reasons that he became rich. Having met Daisy, his human side appears in the novel and he comes to reach the lowest layer of his destruction and greatness as he leaves everything behind to show his love to Daisy. Although, the paradox remains the same he always stays loyal and faith to her until the end of his death, but this foolishness are the two reasons that made him lose his greatness. Gatsby’s life is still waving in the dark since another character appears in the story by the name of Meyer Wolfsheim, a shady, queer figure that doesn’t leave us a lot to thing about him but we do know that he had on the past connections with Germans, the war and know the Mafia. He is the one who claims that he has made Gatsby what he really is.
As a character he is strange in his manners but always gentle and mannered. Even at times that he has the parties and social gatherings in his house, we cannot say that he really enjoys them, as the reason of organising is to see and be with Daisy. There are moments that when Daisy is with her husband Tom, he still uses the best course of his behaviour and is seen as a true gentleman. In front of her he becomes like a boy in his first relationship ever experienced. There are two faces seen in the movie. A great, powerful man and a weak, feeble boy in front of a girl.
At the end the writer leaves us with a sense of distress and a moment of truth when a great personality such as Gatsby is left with nothing but his thoughts, memories and feelings even after such a great effort that he had made in his life, goes amiss. Much to do about nothing, as Shakespeare could characterize in his comedy plays.
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