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Essay / Gatsby's American Dream - 1733
In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes the essential traits of human life: romantic love, genuine friendship, the importance of money, the importance of reliability and the value of social classes through the views of Nick Carraway. As he describes them, the goals of each main character are illustrated, and each of them takes on different meaning and symbolism throughout the novel. This novel mainly tells of Gatsby's attempt to achieve an unattainable goal, to win back Daisy's love through power and money. Unlike all the main characters, Gatsby has clear and well-thought-out dreams. Gatsby's American dream, his desire to be rich and win Daisy back, is hopelessly ruined by Daisy. Gatsby's goal that he tries to achieve by committing crimes is not only worth not achieving, but is also worse than not having dreams. Nick meets Gatsby in East Egg, a place where rich people who made their money in a short time but don't. getting tired of living a sophisticated social life. Their first meeting as neighbors was a bit awkward and Gatsby remained mysterious for a while. However, as Nick admires Gatsby's desire to achieve his goal without letting anything get in his way, and Gatsby knows that Nick will not judge him or think less of him, so they become close friends. Nick is invited to one of Gatsby's big parties that he throws every Saturday and surprises himself. Although they have the most loyal friendship and genuine feelings shown in this book, Nick feels that Gatsby is a dishonest and vulgar person. Nick notices early in the novel that there is something wrong with Gatsby. Later in the novel, Nick understands that Gatsby was manipulating everyone. Readers know that the fact that he studied at Oxford and was writing a paper......gave his life to it. She is of a fairly high social class level and she is only friends with a lot of other rich people. Even though she is happy with Tom at the moment, every time Gatsby comes into the picture and buys her interest, she starts sleeping with him. In chapter 7, she reveals that she is in love with both of them: "I love you now, isn't that enough? I can't stop living in the past." She began to sob helplessly. “I loved him once – but I loved you too.” But according to her character who doesn't want trouble and wants everything to go well, whenever she finds out that Gatsby's money is not clean and he is a smuggler, she abandons him. Besides Nick, Daisy has one of the most stable lives in this novel, even without dreams. It seems Daisy almost proves that living a life like hers is far superior to taking a risk with her unattainable dream..