![]() He formed Daisy more into in object, and she lost all humanity she had. ![]() ![]() Gatsby, like many others, devoted all his time and energy into this ideological perfect life for himself. Daisy is this ideal for him, and he is in constant pursuit of her, making her a pursued person or object in this situation. He is the exact definition of pursuit in his relentless and tireless search for her. Gatsby was finding connections and ways to get to Daisy, akin to how one would try everything and anything to gain their goal. Of course, I immediately suggested a luncheon in New York-and I thought he’d go mad’” (79). Then he began asking people casually if they knew her,’… ‘It was that night he sent for me at his dance, and you should have heard the elaborate way he worked up to it. When Jordan was speaking to Nick she said “‘I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night’…. Usually though when there is pursuit, there is also the pursued.ĭaisy represented the pursed or the main goal of Gatsby’s American Dream throughout the novel. He is willing to do anything and everything to achieve his hopes and dreams, which is a similar aspect to others going through their process to complete the American Dream. ‘I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,’ he said, nodding determinedly. Gatsby constantly wanted Daisy and would have done anything to get her which is shown when “He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. Throughout the whole novel, this green light is constantly what he was trying to pursue, which led to the pursuit of Daisy because she was a part of his dream. In this case the green light represents Gatsby’s version of his American Dream. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. ![]() When Nick was describing how Gatsby acted, he said “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. Gatsby represented the pursuit of the American Dream in his quests for wealth and Daisy. These characters all represent some aspect of the American Dream in different ways. Each character represents these perspectives where Gatsby is the pursuing, Daisy is the pursued, the busy is Nick, and Jordan Baker and Tom Buchanan are the tired. The line “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired” (79) points out these different perspectives of the American Dream. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby and many of his friends serve as the vessels in which the reader can see different aspects of the American Dream. Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Anything could happen is the basic principle of freedom for a future that America was founded upon. Many other scenes serve as a peek inside the American dream, including when Nick thought, “‘Anything can happen now that we’ve slid over this bridge,’ I thought ‘anything at all….’ Even Gatsby could happen, without any particular wonder” (Fitzgerald 69). Though like said before, each person’s dream differs from another, and the uniqueness of dreams shown in the novel is when there is a white chauffeur for a African American family, or other parts when Nick and Gatsby are driving across the bridge. It is not necessarily a bad thing, and it varies from person to person some wanting fame, fortune, and a mansion, some wanting to start a family and live life peacefully and quietly until their death. It is an ideal that is forced into the brains of small children by society beginning when they are just learning to talk. The American Dream is something that most people spend their whole lives pursuing. ![]()
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