Monday, August 19, 2019
Unattainable Things in The Great Gatsby :: Great Gatsby Essays
Unattainable Things in The Great Gatsby         The roaring twenties. Cars were the things to have and a party was the place to be. Everybody wanted something. F. Scott Fitzgerald's book, The Great Gatsby, describes the events that happen to eight people during the summer of 1922. In the book, people went from west to east because something they desired was in the east; unfortunatly in the end those 'somethings' were unattainable.      ...I decided to go east and learn the    bond business. Everybody I knew was    in the bond business so I supposed it    could support one more single man. All    my aunts and uncles talked it over as    if they were choosing a prep school    for me...   Nick went to the east to make money. He was from the midwest, and even though his family was doing pretty well in the money department, Nick wanted to make his own money. By going from the midwest to the east, Fitzgerald shows Nick's desire to have more money. After spending the summer in the east and seeing how money affects people, he decides to go back west.         I see now that this has been a    story of the west, after all-Tom    and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and    I, were all westerners and and    perhaps we possessed some deficiency    in common which made us subtly    unadaptable to eastern life.   In other words, after finding out what the east was really like, Nick lost his interest in being in the east and returned to the west.           Gatsby came east looking for another type of money - Daisy. Gatsby and Daisy had last seen each other about five years before, when they were dating. Then Gatsby had to go to war. While he was away in war, Daisy met Tom and then married Tom. Daisy had always been rich and thought that in order to get Daisy back, he need to have money and be able to give Daisy anything she wanted. He found out that Daisy was in the east and went to go try to get her back.      ...I thought of Gatsby's wonder when
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