The roaring twenties were the times of higher wages, new
technologies and extravagant parties to celebrate after the
devastating war. It was the time of great economic prosperity …show more content…
In the novel The Great
Gatsby, Jay Gatsby portrays that the appearance of his life is unlike
true reality. James Gatz grew up in a very poor family from North
Dakota, and after he became wealthy he changed his name to Jay
Gatsby to hide from his past appearance. Gatsby appears to be this
Individual who has a successful and accomplished life because of all
his wealth, but in reality he is a fraud. His wealth was not inherited
from a wealthy family nor was it gained through a sincerely hard
working job that but he became a bootlegger and gets his wealth from
illegally selling bonds. Gatsby is unable to see past reality “ can’t
repeat the past? Why of course you can?”(116). Gatsby has a
vision of re-gaining the relationship Daisy and him once had. He
believes that since he’s made a name for himself and has become
very wealthy, he now has everything he needs for Daisy to come back
to him. Gatsby is blind to the reality that his dream is long gone and
that his past can never be fully repeated.
The future has brought other factors such as being …show more content…
Regarding her daughter Pammy, Daisy says “And I hope
she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a
beautiful little fool.”(fitzgerald 21). This statement shows that she
wishes that her daughter will grow up to be naive and beautiful so she
doesn’t have to worry about all the problems that occur in life. Daisy
herself is beautiful, however, she is not a fool and is fully aware of her
husbands infidelities. She feels that if she was naïve to this
situation, she would be able to live happily in her life filled with beauty
and wealth and would not have to deal with these kinds of problems.
Unfortunately for Daisy, she realizes that a marriage lacking love and
trust has erupted in her life and assumes that her money will over
shadow this problem and make everything better. Daisy seems to be
living a perfect, beautiful life because of her wealth and high social
class. However, she soon comes to the conclusion that there is an
emptiness in her heart that her money will never be able to fulfill.
When a person is aware to the reality they began to realize how
non important appearance is. The character of Nick Carraway