Examples Of Disillusionment In The Great Gatsby

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Many people in this world are described as “great” but for the regular, unknown people who don’t truly know what most wealthy people do is illegal, are left to feel that they really are perfect since media describes them to be so.The interpretation of “great” is of an extent, amount, or intensity or considerably, above normal or average. Disillusionment is often the feeling many people get when they want something or someone who they is perfect but they really are not. One who feels this is always stuck with the feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something isn’t as perfect as it may seem.The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about one man who is described as “great” and deals with disillusionment. Nick …show more content…
He has been stuck on her since they met and that distracted him from seeing his actual dream. Daisy gets annoyed since he asks too much. He should have just taken that she did love him and went on because he could have focused on what could have actually made him “great.” Gatsby always has his mind wrapped around romance “[i]n the character of Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerald caught the contradictions of romantic illusion in the heartless, cynical modern society that tolerated criminals like Gatsby as long as they picked up the check” (Gazette 3). Gatsby romanticizes about life and love too much. That means he can’t focus on the real parts. He should focus on how he could reach the American Dream and not a girl whom he thinks is perfect. Life is full of bigger opportunities. Gatsby could never get her off his mind “[t]here must have been moments even that afternoon when daisy tumbled short of his dreams ,not though her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion” (Fitzgerald 92). Even after Daisy told him that she loved both Tom and Gatsby, he still never stop fantasizing about her. That's when he should have started to use his common knowledge and realized he doesn’t need. She was just in the way of him getting his dream. He could never than fulfill the title of The Great Gatsby. Gatsby’s was never focused on what could have changed his life and was more focused on how he could win his “perfect”