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Jay Gastby - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Whilst Gatsby seems to believe this devotion paves the way to his dreams 'he stretched his arms across the dark water', they pave the way to his fall ('the dark water').
        He loses sight of the fact that Daisy chose Tom, she forgot about him, she cannot give him the same devotion.
      - When Daisy does not reciprocate his love, Gatsby dies, showing his commitment to an idealistic and romanticised perception of love.
      - Gatsby is a tragic hero: he never abandons his quest for the romantic ideals of love.
  - - - 'her voice is full of money'
      - Appearance vs Reality
        
        Daisy is completely idealized, she cannot live up to Gatsby's inflated view of her
        
        'oh, you want too much!' chp7
        
        Gatsby lives in the delusion that Daisy loves him, she may love him but she loves the stability of Tom's money and status more.
  - - - Melancholic darkness cast over the house 'rain' 'wind was loud' 'thunder'
      - 'if it wasnt for the mist you could see your home across the bay... but he seem absorbed in what he had just said.'
      - 'he was running down like an overwound clock'
      - 'possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.' pg90
        Strong sense that the moment of great triumph is a looming darkness: prolepsis
      - Nostaligia
        
        His obsession with the past = supernatural
        
        'cant repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'why of course you can!'
        Loss of sanity, breakdown of time and gatbsy entire life.
- - - - With the loss of Daisy, comes the loss of his dreams and hopes. The winter is approaching, death is coming.
  - - - Sibilance creates this beautiful, lovely, soft flowing and poetic clean death.
      - 'Water' connotes baptism, cleanliness
      - cyclical language
      - 'thin red circle' waft in water has a respectful tone, a sense that Gatsby simple dissipated and is gone forever.
        There is a hollowness, a sense that he was never real, his facade