Jay Gatsby

Jay Gatsby Jay Gatsby, the main character in F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel, The Great Gatsby, is a worldly-minded human beings, trying to live out the American Dream in the 1920s. But, his consort of life does not get him the woman of his dreams, and eventually leads to his death. He is an extremely wealthy man, but despite all of his currency, is really lonely. Although he never gets the woman he wants, Gatsby was a dreamer. He was motivated to create himself and buy his dash through life, with a dream to recreate the past.Jay Gatsby was materialistic from the beginning. From his childhood, to his adult life, he imagine of being rich. His parents were not wealthy and he grew up in the middle class, but he had al bearings cherished lots of money. incision Carraway states, He was a son of Goda phrase which, if it means anything, it means just thatand he must be about His fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious yellowish pink (Fitzgerald 104). No matt er how he did it, Gatsby was going to be rich.From age 17 he was determined and he would stick with his goal. According to critic Chikako D. Kumamoto, Gatsbys vast, vulgar, and meretricious dream was shared by a social climbing. knap finally figures out Gatsbys plans with Daisy Buchannan and says, He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual mothsso that he could hump over some afternoon to a strangers tend (Fitzgerald 80). Everything Gatsby did was to win back Daisys revel.Being a materialist caused him to throw outrageous parties in hopes that one day, Daisy would show up to one. He believed that his money was the only way to win her over. Jay Gatsby was clearly a lonely man. He had all the money in the world to buy anything except for the woman of his dreams, Daisy. Throughout the full-page novel, The Great Gatsby, he appears to be bored and alone. Your place looks like the universe of discourses fair Nick Carraway says to Gatsby (Fi tzgerald 86). Even to his death, no one cared complete about him to know to his funeral.Carraway tells us, but neither a wire nor Mr. Wolfshiem arrived no one arrived except more police and photographers and newspaper men (Fitzgerald 110). attempt for only two things in his life never made him very popular. He threw extravagant parties, but no one knew who he was or even liked him for that matter. According to critic Brian Sutton, Gatsby goes to spectacular lengths to try to pass what Nick Carraway calls his incorruptible dream (Fitzgerald 155). But, unfortunately Gatsby never gets the woman he longs for.Nick tells us, After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence (Fitzgerald 99). While Gatsby may have loved the real Daisy, the love that survived over time was of his dream-like conception of her. Jay Gatsby lived a life he dreamed of having but, he dreamed of getting Daisy back and never actually did. Nick tells Gatsby, You cant repe at the past and Gatsby, being the stubborn man he is, says Cant repeat the past? Why of course you can (Fitzgerald 117). His dreams got in the way.Critic Brian Sutton states that Gatsbys chances of winning Daisy were dead. Finding out the way Gatsby got his money ruined everything he could have had with Daisy. Throughout his whole life, Jay Gatsby would do anything to achieve his incorruptible dream (Fitzgerald 155). Daisys marriage seems so severe during most of the novel it is almost like Gatsby is going to make his dreams come true. His efforts are so unimaginable and Daisy appears to be looking for a way out. Because Jay Gatsby is materialistic, lonely, and a dreamer, he is killed.His own attitude caused his death. Living out the American Dream, trying to become wealthy, and striving to win Daisys love did not pay off for Gatsby in the end. Works Cited Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York Scribner, 2004. Print. Kumamoto, Chikako. Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby. Expl icator 60 (Fall 2001) 37-41. Literature Resource Center. Web. 09 Nov. 2012. Sutton, Brian. Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby. Explicator 59 (Fall 2000) 37-9. Literature Resource Center. Web. 09 Nov. 2012.