Is this a tragic love story? What is this supposed to represent? I'm confused. Help me understand this fellas.
>>23974696Yes, but it's a lot more than that. Read it again and pay closer attention to Nick (the most important character)
>>23974696envious dreams of shiny things can corrupt the soul and lead to a corrupt existence that, even despite outward success, will deliver very little fulfillment.
Got to stay in one of the houses that F. Scott and Zelda lived in, all while reading his first book while smoking in the courtyard. The book was not very good.
>>23974696It's romanticizing the American Dream. Instead of putting it down and calling Jay Gatsby shallow, Fitzgerald is making Jay look noble for grinding his heart out to win back a sweetheart of his from before he went to war.The tragedy is that this woman changed in his absence, and ended up with a guy that didn't even care about her and sacrificed nothing to earn her. And in the end she even betrayed Gatsby, despite all that Jay had done. The story is a love letter to people who want to believe they achieve their dreams against all odds, but it also warns them that it might not work out.But that's basically why it often gets called the great American novel, because of that theme.
>>23974696It was to represents the American dream and its use of prose which is why it is regarded as one of the greatest along with Proust and Joyce
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>>23974958maybe in a month
I tried to think about Gatsby then for a moment but he was already too far away and I could only remember, without resentment, that Daisy hadn’t sent a message or a flower. Dimly I heard someone murmur ‘Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on,’ and then the owl-eyed man said ‘Amen to that,’ in a brave voice. We straggled down quickly through the rain to the cars. Owl-Eyes spoke to me by the gate. ‘I couldn’t get to the house,’ he remarked. ‘Neither could anybody else.’ ‘Go on!’ He started. ‘Why, my God! they used to go thereby the hundreds.’ He took off his glasses and wiped them again outside and in. ‘The poor son-of-a-bitch,’ he said
>ITT: people who skimmed the book when they were 14
>>23974696>Yes, *The Great Gatsby* is often seen as a tragic love story, but its significance extends beyond just the romance between Gatsby and Daisy. At the heart of the novel is Gatsby's obsessive love for Daisy Buchanan, a woman he met and fell in love with years earlier. His unwavering desire to rekindle their past relationship, however, is ultimately futile. Daisy, though seemingly in love with Gatsby, is also bound by social status, and her commitment to her wealthy, yet morally corrupt, husband, Tom Buchanan, highlights the obstacles to Gatsby's dream. The tragic aspect lies in the fact that Gatsby's idealized vision of Daisy—and their love—cannot withstand the realities of time, class, and human nature.>On a broader level, *The Great Gatsby* represents the American Dream and the idea of self-made success. Gatsby's rise from humble beginnings to immense wealth symbolizes the American Dream, but his tragic end suggests that this dream is ultimately hollow, built on illusions and materialism rather than genuine happiness or fulfillment. Through Gatsby's story, F. Scott Fitzgerald critiques the notion that anyone can achieve happiness and success through hard work alone, showing how wealth and status do not lead to true contentment or moral integrity.>The novel also explores themes of social class, identity, disillusionment, and the pursuit of happiness. It portrays a society that, despite its outward appearances of glamour and success, is morally bankrupt and disconnected from any deeper sense of meaning or purpose. Gatsby’s tragic fate symbolizes the ultimate collapse of this dream, as he fails to attain his idealized version of the past and the future he envisioned with Daisy.Here's what chatGPT says. Hope you get a good grade on your homework OP. I think your teacher will be very impressed.
