How Does The Great Gatsby Explore The Ideas Of Illusion Versus Reality?

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the novel and film this illusion that the era and characters have cast over themselves unravels due to a clever use to symbolic references that outline this deceptive nature and reveal the characters true identity and intentions toward the end of the story.

Clouded by his desires and ambitions, Jay Gatsby has twisted his reality to authenticate his newfound status. Gatsby is a self-made man famed for his decadent, champagne drenched parties and mysteriously quick rise in New York’s social spectrum. Everyone knows of him but barely anyone really knows him. This “Mr Nobody from Nowhere” gained the chance to remodel himself entirely, to meet the expectations set for the upper class and ultimately to rewrite his past. Originally from San Francisco in the Middle East Gatsby’s, “parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people and in his imagination he had never really accepted them as his parents at all”. Gatsby had no money to his name, and despised the hand he was ...

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without consequence. Tom has had the upper hand in society all his life, everything has been served to him on a silver platter, and everything has come easily and without responsibility. Living a life where you are able to get what you want, when you want without anyone telling you otherwise certainly shapes a person. Luhrman emphasises this characteristic through how Tom carries himself, he is never below anyone and makes an effort to stay the loudest in the room. On the other hand Fitzgerald uses clever dialogue and Tom’s general carelessness towards his actions to highlight this part of Tom personality. Although both Luhrman and Fitzgerald use how manipulative Tom is to truly outline ...

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