Persuasive Essay On The Great Gatsby

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It’s said that one should never meet their heroes, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald epitomizes this saying with Jay Gatsby’s love of the married Daisy. Gatsby loved Daisy, but he didn’t love Daisy. This paradoxical statement means that Gatsby was only ever in love with what Daisy represented to him—money, success, acceptance into the aristocracy—but Daisy as a person, especially when he had her, could never meet his idealization of her. To Gatsby, his courtship of Daisy felt like the home stretch before he would finally achieve his life-long dream; she embodies wealth and class, everything that he ever wanted. Fitzgerald makes it a point to flat out say “’her voice is full of money’…That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it.... High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl...” (128). That kind of voice is found only in those who were born to money, raised in it, lived in it; the kind found exclusively in the world of the highest, most elite social class, in old money. As a result, Daisy practically oozes money and elitism, a quality Gatsby is enamored with. She is later reduced to just her money laden voice when Gatsby orders her to recant her …show more content…
Compared to the great distance that had separated him from
Daisy it had seemed very near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one” (100). His brightly shining idolized version of Daisy was not who she really was, much like the green light was now simply a light, Daisy was simply a woman.
Gatsby’s dream of achieving everything Daisy stood for led him to create a perfect version of Daisy that no one could ever come close to. Gatsby sees this illusional Daisy as an essential part of achieving his dream, and once he meets her, he finds that she isn’t the person he thinks her to
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