Resumo de The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

In F. Scott Fitzgerald?s The Great Gatsby, money, power and stability equal happiness in the eyes of Jay Gatsby. Happiness is his goal, his ultimate desire, but that vision, that dream is skewed by his ignorance and the corruption of the society in which he resides.

For five years Gatsby dreamed of perfection, envisioning its beauty, the pale light it would exude for all eternity, ignorant to the realities which encroached in his every thought and action. Gatsby wanted Daisy, the perfect little flower waiting to be plucked by a man, the right man, a man that could provide the financial stability and security she needed. Daisy received not what she wanted, for she wanted Gatsby as well, but what or rather who she deserved, someone just like herself: wealthy, manipulating and selfish. It seems as though nothing ever ends as it should: Gatsby?s dream was shattered by Tom and Daisy for they destroyed all and everyone then hid behind their money denying any responsibility. Daisy received what she deserved, as did Gatsby for looking so blindly into that green light without ever realizing that he was searching, reaching for the unattainable. He wasted his life on a dream that would never come true, harboring what was left of his past, unable to see the flaw in his future, in Daisy, in it all, until it was far too late.

Nick, like Gatsby, had a dream, or some semblance of one, that he believed was true and right, so he moved to West Egg hoping to follow this dream into a new world of change and opportunity. He ?bought dozens of volumes on banking and credit?that stood?in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas, Morgan and Maecenas knew.? Gatsby had these books as well, he had it all, but to have it all, the books, the house, the parties meant nothing to those around him, they were just another façade to attract the one thing he wanted, when all the while he knew he would remain alone. Gatsby remained trapped in his dream, engulfed by the majesty, the beauty and the perfection he sought in Daisy. Nick thought he saw the same in Jordan, but that beauty and that ?insolent smile? were nothing but spurious antics used to evade and deceive those around her. Unlike Gatsby, Nick saw through the mask to the woman inside. Gatsby didn?t want daisy, he wanted the idea of her, a flower, a daisy, he just wanted what everyone else did; he fell in love with the dream and chose to ignore the reality. Most never get what they truly want, but what they deserve. Wilson wanted his wife to love him, cherish him, to stay with him, yet he was too blind to see that she could never fulfill those duties, even as his wife. He was asking for the heartbreak, just as Gatsby was asking for the disappointment he found in the truth.

We are what we want. Tom and Daisy, no matter how ghastly a couple they were, were perfect for each other, each a reflection of the other. Gatsby and Daisy were entirely too different: one living in the past, the other in the present, one with nothing to lose, the other with everything to lose. No matter how much money he had, how many lavish parties he threw, he would never be the man she needed, he would never have her, just as he would ever reach that green light, that unattainable dream.

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