The Great Gatsby :: English Literature

The Great GatsbyThe capacity to dream is a natural constitutionistic have by all objet dartkind. Americans living in a country based on the philosophy of pursue massive American dreams go about pursuing their own goals inmany ways. Ironically the American dream itself is the ultimateillusion that can never satisfy those who pursue it. The Americandream was notwithstanding possible when it was a potential. Nick inFitzgeralds, The Great Gatsby, realized this as he imagines a pastwhen the Dutch first laid their eyes on the vast wild of theuninhabited United States. Gatsbys ideals in this novel are theideals of all Americans. Gatsby and Americans search for a dream andyet nobody really understands what it is they are really in search of.People go about fulfilling these dreams by using cheap reality and inthe end it does not heartbeat up to the size of the dream itself thedreamer is bound to be disappointed with every accomplishment of thedream. At the conclusion of Fitzgeralds book, The Great Gatsby, the maincharacter Gatsby has recently died and Nick stands facing the frontdoor of Gatsbys mansion. From this moment, Nick looks at Gatsbyshouse for a last time. He sees a allege word on the wall, and likeHolden in the book, The Catcher in the Rye, he too crosses the wordout trying to preserve the innocence. Nick wants to keep Gatsbysdream pure even though it is already lost. Later on while Nick is allalone, everything begins to melt away. He starts to picture how itlooked a one C years ago when the Dutch sailors first reached a newworld. Nicks world becomes the world of idealism, where the physicalworld doesnt matter the great house of Gatsby begins to melt awayand finally disappear in Nicks mind for that moment. Nick sees that, for a transitory enchanted moment man must have heldhis breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into anaesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face toface for the last time in history with something commen surate to hiscapacity for wonder, (pg 189). For that one time the Dutch merchantssaw the idea of property in a different way. The Dutch saw thewilderness and trees not as wood- cutters or property owners but aspoets, like presented in Emersons, Nature. Wood- cutters own thetimber physically, but, there is a property in the skyline which noman has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, thepoet,(Nature). The Dutch saw the beauty of the land and trees and