Failure and Destruction of a Romantic Ideal in Fitzgerald’s The Great G

The coarse Gatsby and the Destruction of a Romantic Ideal In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the written report of a romantic ideal and its ultimate destruction by the morose rot and decay of modern life. The story is related by notch Carraway, who has taken a modest rental house next room access to Jay Gatsbys mansion. Jay Gatsby is a young millionaire who achieves fabulous wealth for the sole purpose of recapturing the savor of his former sweetheart, Daisy Fay Buchanan. Five years prior to the principal events of the story, Daisy broke moody with Gatsby and married the vulgar and arrogant Tom Buchanan because he was rich and came from a respectable family. In the years since, Gatsby turns his memory of Daisy into a near-religious worship. He places her on a pedestal and transforms her into his own romantic ideal. In the process, he excessively transforms himself. He changes his name from Gatz to Gatsby he invents a past, saying he was from a wealthy family and studied at Oxford he affects the speech patterns of an English blue blood (old sport), and stages parties that resemble theatrical productions. The irony is that Gatsbys extreme interest group of materialism is just an elaborate facade that allows him to pursue his enchanted unearthly vision. All of the trappings of his wealth have a sense of the unreal, as having no weight or substance. Our first sense of this occurs in Chapter 3, when Gatsby invites gouge to one of his parties. In Gatsbys library Nick encounters a drunken leaf node who announces that Gatsbys books are actually real What do you think? he demanded impetuously. close what? He waived his hand toward the book-shelves. About that. As a matter of feature you neednt bother to... ..., boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. Works Cited and Consulted Bruccoli, Matthew J. Some Sort of epic poem Grandeur The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York Carrol and Graf, 1993. Hobsbawm, Er ic. The Age of Extremes. New York Pantheon, 1994. Mizener, Arthur, ed. F. Scott Fitzgerald A disposition of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, 1963. Posnock, Ross. A New World, Material Without Being Real Fitzgeralds Critique of capitalism in The Great Gatsby. Critical Essays on Scott Fitzgeralds Great Gatsby. Ed. Scott Donaldson. Boston Hall, 1984. 201-13. Raleigh, tail Henry. F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby. Mizener 99-103. Trilling, Lionel. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Critical Essays on Scott Fitzgeralds Great Gatsby. Ed. Scott Donaldson. Boston Hall, 1984. 13-20.