Gatsby :: essays research papers

"The swell Gatsby ", besides being a great literary piece, is a fable for a whole society, the American society. "The voxy was over" (Fitzgerald), which signifies a level of prophetic vision within the American society and its history. An essential part of this American characteristic of the novel, and its historicity, is about the American Dream. At the center of how Gatsby is a metaphor for a whole society, is the relationship between Europe, the already settled, which caused unsatisfaction and thence led to America, in which mercantilism and idealism ar born and are a very important part of American History. In different words in American History, the human faculty of wonder is on the one hand, and the power and beauty of things is on the other. The book dramatizes this, directly in the life of Gatsby, how he changed his name and life from the already settled (Europe), for his breathing in (America). Gatsbys reverie is the American Dream, that one can acqu ire happiness with wealth and power.      Jay Gatsby had a love affair with the affluent Daisy, and knowing he couldnt marry her because of the difference on their social status, he leaves her in clubhouse to create wealth and reach her economic standards. When he achieve this wealth, Gatsby buys a house that is across the bay to Daisys house, and throws immense and lavish parties, with the hope that Daisy would list to one of them. When he realizes this is very improbable, he starts asking various people from time to time if they know her. In this inquiry, he meets Jordan Baker, who tells him that Nick Carraway his inhabit is Daisys cousin. Nick agrees to invite Daisy to his house one afternoon, and then let him over. Later, in the Buchanans house, when Gatsby is determined to watch and protect Daisy "How long are you going to delay? "All night if necessary"" (Fitzgerald 152) Jay shows that he cannot accept that the other(prenominal) is th e past and he is sure that he can capture his dream with wealth and influence and that Daisy has loved only him for all this time. Gatsby doesnt rest until his American dream is finally fulfilled, until Daisy is his. However it never becomes true and he ends dying because of it at the end. The dream both Gatsby and America had, was so unutterable that to a sealed extent it was necessarily corruptible.