The great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925. One of the most famous works of F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in US and he is an American writer, best
known for his works on the "Jazz age”. The work was born in The Modernist Period.The work is about
Gatsby, a mysterious rich guy and the stories surrounding him.

One of the most prominent themes in the work is "American dream". The main character in the work -
Gatsby pursues the ideal "American dream", wants to change himself, wants to find love, wants to
become rich but in the end it is "American dream" that kills him.

Gatsby came from a farming family, he tried to change himself, change his life. "American dream" is the
only ideal he pursues, "American dream" with Gatsby is endless “Anything can happen now that we’ve
slid over this bridge,’ I thought, ‘anything at all…’ Even Gatsby could happen, without any particular
wonder.”

When he has achieved "American dream" he wants to find Daisy - the girl he secretly loves, Gatsby
always organizes lavish parties with the desire to find his love Daisy again. “He stretched out his arms
toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling.
Involuntarily I glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far
away. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet
darkness. For Gatsby the green light symbolizes the love of his life Daisy as well as money, success and
the past.

Daisy - Gatsby's dream girl is the typical character for "American dream", “'Her voice is full of money”,
“That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money – that was the inexhaustible charm that
rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it.” Daisy represents money, beautiful that why he
is fall in love with her.

But at the end of the work is the sudden death of Gatsby, because to protect the girl he love - Daisy, he
was misunderstood as having killed Myrtle. “With every word she was drawing further and further into
herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to
touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the
room.”, “Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the
wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded
elations of men.” cause the disintegration of his American Dream.

Through the work, it shows us that Gatsby's love for Daisy is immense, he tries to become rich, organizes
lavish parties, is ready to sacrifice for her, but in the end is an instant death. the sadness and loneliness of
his funeral.