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Gatsby's Dream (What is Gatsby's dream (He wants his self-created…
Gatsby's Dream
What is Gatsby's dream
To repeat his past with Daisy, back to before she married tom and to when he was in the army
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To enter into the highest class of society, to be known as a part of the 'old money' group rather than this new money overly lavish name he has made for himself
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He wants his self-created 'platonic conception of himself' to become a reality, he wants his story to be that of a child of wealthy parents, who was educated at oxford
"His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all."
“I was brought up in america but educated at oxford, because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is family tradition”
“The truth was that jay gatsby of west egg , long island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself .”
“He invented just the sort of Jay gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.”
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.”
Why did it fail?
Gatsby was in love with a memory of Daisy, he refused to understand that she and her life have changed in the five years they were apart, and he refused to believe Daisy would never give up her social status for a man she was in love with
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“He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.”
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Gatsby believed in the american dream, he believed that anything he wanted , he could get if he worked for it
Quotes
Wealth and Class
“On week-ends his rolls-royces became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight”
“White flannel suit.” “silver shirt, and gold-coloured tie”
"An Oxford man!" He was incredulous. "Like hell he is! He wears a pink suit. “
“He had come in contact with such people, but always with indiscernible barbed wire between”
Gatsby's dream
“Your wife doesn’t love you...she’s never loved you. She loves me” - What gatsby has brought himself to believe.
“Daisy’s leaving you”
“He was clutching at some last hope and i couldn’t bear to shake him free”
“He had no real right to touch her hand”
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Past and Future
‘Just tell him the truth - that you never loved him - and it’s all wiped out forever.”
“Daisy and tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table… once in awhile she looked up at him and nodded in agreement.”
Synonyms
Dream
Fantasy, ambition, aspiration, aim
Failure
demise, breakdown, decline, deterioration, collapse, lack of success, loss
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