Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town And The Great Gatsby

“The biggest disease known to mankind is loneliness.” (Author unknown). This quote describes darkness in one’s life when one tries everything in his power to be with someone and it does not work. This is the case in the novel The Great Gatsby when the main character Gatsby falls in love with Daisy, yet she is taken and unavailable but he continues to chase her and only ends up short. In The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald, uses literary elements in the novel is to create the story.

The green light first emerges before we even meet Gatsby, but is important to him because Nick can see him as “he stretched out his arms toward… a single green light, minute and far away, that may have been at the end of a dock” (21). The light represents Daisy and his wanting for her, as well as Gatsby attempting to reach his dream, which Daisy later becomes a part of. The green light appears again at the end of the book when Nick has “thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock” The light also represented Gatsby’s dream of being successful and “his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it” (180). The light has always illustrated Daisy and Gatsby would look for it to feel close to her. He also uses it as a guide for his dream, but now that Gatsby is dead, it is just a green light Nick sees as a reminder of the friend he loses

It is the same exact thing as the green light at the end of the dock. Once reading the book and understanding how much Gatsby loves Daisy, it makes so much more sense that the green light symbolizes

The great Gatsby conveys one of the themes which would be “love”. One example of that using symbolism would be the green light at end of daisy’s dock. Gatsby would always stare amazingly at the green light, he bought the house across the water to be closer to daisy. He can’t be away from her for so long. Another example would be when daisy said in chapter 7 on page 119, “You always look so cool”. Maybe that’s implying that he always has dressed very nice and doesn’t go anywhere looking any kind of way. Even though Daisy had those moments where she didn’t love Gatsby, she deep down still loved Gatsby and will forever love him. Daisy knew that her husband Tom wasn’t always loyal, but she chose to stay with him but constantly entertaining Gatsby, which is what made Gatsby come to his senses to tell  Daisy that she should tell Tom that she “never loved him”. The fact that Gatsby loved Daisy so much he was willing to go

When reading The Great Gatsby you may ask yourself what the theme might be but there really isn’t a specific one. Some people think that the theme is that the cause of things may cause other things kind of like a chain reaction but I don’t really agree nor disagree. I think that the actual theme for The Great Gatsby is that the desire for things may force people to change. Now at first it doesn’t really make sense but as soon as you read the book and really think about it makes sense. I have two main characters that I think fit the theme.

First, the green light is a symbol of Gatsby’s hope to win Daisy back. It is also Gatsby’s motivation for winning Daisy back and getting her back into his life. Gatsby thinks that Daisy is still in love with him, but she was on her honeymoon when he came back to New York. Daisy and Gatsby had an undying love for each

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a roller coaster of greed and love. Jay Gatsby falls in love thinking he's found, but his partner disagrees, driving him crazy. Which causes him to chase after material wealth, thinking it will get her attention. This is important because the theme of The Great Gatsby is hidden all the way until the end of the book, where the theme shifts into delusional romance. Because of this, unrealistic fantasies about love can be used as motivation towards monetary desires.

The green light at the end of daisy's dock is the symbol of gatsby's hopes and dreams. It represents everything that haunts and beckons Gatsby: the physical and emotional distance between him and Daisy, the gap between the past and the present, the promises of the future, and the powerful lure of that other green stuff he craves money. The light is something that is a key part of gatsby's character, even the very first time the books protagonist nick sees gatsby he is down at his dock staring at the light. “He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.” and even nick comes to realize this lights significance , “ And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes —a fresh, green breast of the new world.... And as I sat there, brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out Daisy's light at the end of his dock. He had come such a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it. But what he did not know was that it was already behind him, somewhere in the vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on

When we see Gatsby standing At the end of the dock reaching for the green light he is remembering the past, and what it used to be like with daisy before the war. “He stretched out his arms toward the dark water...single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock” (Fitzgerald Chapter 1). This is when we first see the longing and temptation from gatsby to relive what he once had, and that is Daisy, represented by the green light where the dock is at her Mansion. The imagery that Gatsby is reaching for a green light that he literally can't reach, is symbolism for how he cannot reach the past. Gatsby however, never realizes this, he is always controlled by his ambition for reaching for Daisy and her love.

Cummings made the poem kind of a sad poem. There didn’t seem to be a lot of places in the poem where there was happy words. One of the quotes from the poem “one day anyone died I guess” (Cummings ln26) that caused sadness because it just talked about how anyone dies. Another quote from the poem was “women and men(both little and small )cared for anyone not at all.” (Cummings ln 6). That showed sadness by nobody caring when he died. In “The Great Gatsby” the tone is that F. Scott Fitzgerald made the story have good things happen but most of them led to not so good things happening. One thing that happened was that Gatsby started to have feelings for Daisy again but she was married to Tom. it was very upsetting because she loved him too and wanted to be in a relationship again like they were 5 years ago. Like when Gatsby said to Tom “your wife doesn’t love you” (Fitzgerald 130) he told Tom for Daisy and tried to get Daisy to say it too. Tom was always abusive towards Daisy but he was also abusive towards Myrtle too.. Like when Nick said”Making a short deft moment, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.” That’s very sad because she didn’t really deserve to be hit like

The saying “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and to be loved by George Sand connects the many relationships in the novel The Great Gatsby. George Sand was a French Romantic writer known primarily for her so-called rustic novels. In the The Great Gatsby, many people argue that the story is a romantic-type story with the affection of love that is shown with different links with each character. Love is a very powerful feeling that has the ability to cause jealousy which can lead to death. Gatsby’s emotions for his woman was all grudge from Tom. Gatsby never was happy with his life without Daisy Buchanan. The most interesting man, Gatsby, has his world turned upside down in an instant pull of a trigger. In the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character that is most responsible for the death of Jay Gatsby is Nick Carraway.

Love can be both a beautiful and dangerous thing. It can destroy people’s lives, but it can also build new and beautiful lives for others. Everyone experiences love at least once in their lifetime. It can take over a person’s life, never thinking about anything else except that other person who they are in love with. The Great Gatsby is just one book that shows how love can change how a person sees the world and how they act. The novel follows the lives of a group of people and the ups and downs of the love between some of them. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald represents to the reader how love can both change and destroy other’s relationships and lives with each other while still being a beautiful thing.

     F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a tragic tale of love distorted by obsession. Finding himself in the city of New York, Jay Gatsby is a loyal and devoted man who is willing to cross oceans and build mansions for his one true love. His belief in realistic ideals and his perseverance greatly influence all the decisions he makes and ultimately direct the course of his life. Gatsby has made a total commitment to a dream, and he does not realize that his dream is hollow. Although his intentions are true, he sometimes has a crude way of getting his point across. When he makes his ideals heard, his actions are wasted on a thoughtless and shallow society. Jay Gatsby effectively embodies a romantic idealism

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is infatuated with Daisy. IN the story Gatsby does everything he can to try and win Daisy over and for a while he has Daisy and he is able to be with her as he always dreamed but in the end when it all comes to a close he is still not able to have Daisy because Daisy runs back to the warm security of Tom. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott F. Scott Fitzgerald uses metaphors and similes along with repeated diction to make the reader feel a sense of sympathy towards Gatsby because of the instability of Gatsby’s dream to have Daisy.

The Great Gatsby does not offer a definition of love, or a contrast between love and romance. Rather it suggests that what people believe to be love is normally only a dream. America in the 1920s was a country where moral values were slowly crumbling and Americans soon only had one dream and objective to achieve, success. Distorted love is one theme in the novel The Great Gatsby, present among all of the characters relationships; Daisy and Tom, Tom and Myrtle, Daisy and Gatsby, and Wilson and Myrtle, though Myrtle does not return the love. This distortion illustrates that it is not love that leads several characters to death, but lust and the materialistic possessions that really drive the characters to their lonely