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Gatsby�s Dream - Essay

Gatsby�s Dream



�Do you have dreams?� one may be asked once in their lifetime. The main character of �The Great Gatsby� by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby, can be seen as a doomed romantic idealist by the dreams he created and the dream that was destroyed. These dreams were destroyed by the fact that they were too large. He would not compromise on his dreams and he used corrupt means to obtain them. A romantic idealist, is a person who is in pursuit of their true love and will obtain the goal or in Gatsby�s case, a dream, even if it includes recreating the past. Gatsby can be seen as a romantic idealist several times throughout ...

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that Gatsby possesses � some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life� (6). He had �an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness� which takes the ideas of a creative mind (6). Nick shows him under the dignified �name of the creative temperament� (6).
A Final example is when Gatsby asks Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him. Hehas ultimately went on his search to obtain his true love and it has ended when he said this statement. He has found his true love which will, in the long run , will result in his ultimate defeat. However, he found that was not true, �Just tell him the truth that you never loved him [Tom]...I [Daisy] never loved him she said with perceptible reluctance...�(139). He wanted Daisy to admit to her husband that she never loved him so that may come true.
was created by his determination, which was great, to be with Gatsby and that is why one may believe that Fitzgerald consider Gatsby as great. He was from North ...

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