Examples Of Immaturity In The Great Gatsby

He is haunted by the idea of being with Daisy. Gatsby believes that what he needs to do is reach a state that he was in the past. That him and Daisy both were. He believes this too saying "Cant repeat the past? While of course you can" Chapter 7 1.

As much as Gatsby is seen as a romantic he could also be seen as though he is stuck in his own fantasy. Gatsby is so hung up on this old idea he has of Daisy from five years ago, that he can't see that she has moved on. “Can't repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”.

Gatsby lost the women he loved, Nick got so caught up with drama with everyone he knew, he ended up as unhappy as the rest. Everyone used Nick at least once, or gave him something to doubt. People used everyone and no one noticed. “If you want anything just ask for it old sport,” (Fitzgerald 48) Gatsby was trying to create a friendship with Nick, only to later on use him as bait to get closer to Daisy, who Gatsby believed loved him. But in the end nothing really comes the way he wanted, proven when Daisy admits she loved Gatsby but not the way when they were young.

Even Nick states that Gatsby’s view seems to be fantastical. Gatsby believes that he is loved by Daisy, and his distorted self-perception on this issue causes him to convince himself that she feels the same way, and that she wishes to leave Tom. This is shown to be untrue as Daisy eventually leaves with Tom, and does not appear to mourn Gatsby’s death, for she did not have the same need to recover the past as he did. Gatsby’s delusions and inability to reason with his sense of self and motivations cause him to misinterpret those around him, and this is comparable to the sentiments of Lao Tzu’s quotations, because his inability to understand himself and others causes conflict between the characters. Gatsby is unable to become ‘enlightened’ and free himself from his false

All throughout the book The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby appears to be this successful, happy, businessman living the American Dream. When in reality, he is a very unhappy and a lonely man using his wealth and power to make himself feel happy and full. Although Jay Gatsby was living the American Dream, he died in an unhappy state of mind. There are a lot of examples all throughout the book that support this idea that he died an unhappy man. One of the main events that happens in the book that shows how Gatsby died an unhappy man is when his funeral is being held and no one shows up. "

He didn't even accept his own parents or any part of his past as his own. Gatsby’s past is full of lies, a life created from imagination that is not even real. “I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” [Nick] ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?”

Gatsby’s dreams and aspirations in life are rather interesting and amazing as he goes about his life in the book. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald helps highlight the social, moral, and political issue that were very present during the 1920’s and today. Gatsby is the focus of the book as before the book began, he was an ex-soldier who came to wealth by some rather illegal ways. Daisy a married woman is his person of interest, who was his ex-lover 5 years before the book started. Gatsby’s actions, and words demonstrate a clear obsession with Daisy that seems to have no end.

Imagine, all of a sudden, your past lover pops into your life again, wanting you to forget about your spouse and child and start a new life with them. In the famous American novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby constructs an elaborate plan to have Daisy Buchanan meet him after five years had past, as if it happened to be coincidence. Gatsby gets in touch with people who are related to Daisy to join in his plot to get Daisy to meet Gatsby without Daisy’s husband, Tom, knowing. During the five years, Gatsby transforms himself from a penniless, poverty-stricken man into a filthy rich, wealthy gentleman in order to have countless parties to hopefully get Daisy to come and reconnect with him. Fitzgerald reveals Gatsby’s feelings

Gatsby wants his relationship with Daisy to be “just as if it were five years ago”(109), so when he meets her daughter “he [keeps] looking at the child with surprise”, Nick describes that he doesn’t think that “[Gatsby] had ever really believed in its existence before”(117). Gatsby has no conception of Daisy’s current life, only the one he has in his mind, so when he sees her real life, it tarnishes his idea of his forthcoming life with Daisy. In a like manner, Gatsby’s “hell of the mind” culminates when Daisy can’t say that she never loved Tom and tells Gatsby “I love you now--isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past” and consequently “the words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby”(132). Gatsby’s dream is built upon the belief that Daisy has been equally in love with him for the past five years, so this information takes a cruel blow at his entire purpose.

With his mind set on his dream life he hoped to once live, Gatsby tries to press on into the future yet is offset by the effects of his past. The Great Gatz hides from his past, his means and his truth in order to win back Daisy’s love. “‘Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’”

Gatsby is obsessed with his own idea of who Daisy is and what he remembers her as, “Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion” (page 95). Gatsby goes through great lengths in order to become who he thinks Daisy would want, “He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths--so he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden” (page 63).

(99) In this moment, Gatsby makes it clear to Daisy that he could easily provide her with the same lifestyle she shares with Tom. Once Gatsby captures Daisy’s affection, he becomes full of greed and doesn’t want to believe she ever gave any of her love to Tom. “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.’” (118) When Daisy states “‘Even alone I can’t say I never loved Tom,’ (142), Gatsby begins to feel a “touch of panic” (142). All of his parties, stories, and entire persona were all fabricated to win Daisy back.

If Gatsby is to truly love Daisy, instead of destroying her marriage, he would have let her go. However, because of his extreme devotion towards Daisy, he dreams of a utopia where their feelings for each other is mutual. Thus, he demands her to say that she has never loved Tom to affirm that she loves him only, but Daisy does fall in love with Tom at some point in her marriage, in between the five years of Gatsby’s absence. Nonetheless, Gatsby does not give up. He “[clutches]

Characters throughout The Great Gatsby present themselves with mysterious and questionable morals. Affairs, dishonest morals, criminal professions, weak boundaries and hypocritical views are all examples of immorality portrayed in The Great Gatsby. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, lies and mischief fill the lives of many and significantly damage numerous relationships. First, Jay Gatsby's whole life is consumed into a massive lie. His personality traits set him apart from others and the attention he accumulates motivates him to falsely portray his life.

Once Daisy begins to see Gatsby on a regular basis, Gatsby begins to encourage Daisy to leave Tom and create a life with him. In the novel, Nick observes, “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you." After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken. One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house—just as if it were five years ago.” Gatsby believes he can provide Daisy with a lavish and happy life that her unfaithful husband could never give