Ideas- Gatsby Assessment

The inevitability of time– time is an indefinite progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole. In the book, we can relate many of gatsby’s actions back to time in a way that he wants to erase the past five when he was without daisy (daisy married tom) and wants it to be back to how it was when they first meet. the idea of this would never be possible because time can not be stopped as we stated earlier because it is inevitable. Another way that time is presented in ‘The Great Gatsby’ is through the symbol of water, it appears multiple times to remind the reader that there has been a significant amount of time between them. An example of this time is when Gatsby and Daisy are reunited, it is raining which symbolises the five years of time separating them. We know that problems can be fixed over time and in this case the problem is the memories Daisy has collected over this time frame but Gatsby, as we know, wants to go back to the beginning with her straight away so that Gatsby would be the only one daisy loves but we know that TIME is needed to fix this problem although daisy is married to Tom buchanan.

The myth of the american dream- The american dream is the ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest dreams and goals to be achieved. The american dream is shown a lot in the movie “The Great Gatsby” by Gatsby himself. living in a materialistic world Gatsby has everything and anything a generalised american could dream of owning but that to him was all useless if daisy wasn’t there to share it with him, as he only threw those big parties and went to that extent of being richer for her hoping that she would one day come back. The main reason for us to believe that the american dream wasn’t accomplishable to Americans regarding the novel was because no matter how hard any of them tried, they could never be fully rid of their problems.many viewers can relate to this statement of never being able to full get rid of any problems.