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Essay Archive - The Great Gatsby: Gatsby's Illusion of Himself
The Great Gatsby: Gatsby's Illusion of Himself
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is considered a novel that
embodies America in the 1920s. In it, the narrator, Nick Carroway, helps his
neighbor Jay Gatsby reunite with Daisy Buchanan, with whom he has been in love
with since 5 years before, during World War I. The affair between the two fails,
however, and ends in Gatsby being shot and killed. The reason that this was
inevitable is that Gatsby created a fantasy so thoroughly that he became part of
it, and he fell with it when reality came crashing down.
The basis of all of this is Gatsby's obsession....
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