The Great Gatsby :: English Literature

The swell GatsbyThe capacity to intake is a natural characteristic have by allmankind. Americans living in a country base on the philosophy ofpursuing great American dreams go somewhat 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 only possible when it was a potential. Nick inFitzgeralds, The Great Gatsby, realized this as he imagines a pastwhen the Dutch starting laid their eyes on the vast wilderness of theuninhabited united States. Gatsbys ideals in this novel are theideals of all Americans. Gatsby and Americans search for a dream andyet nobody truly understands what it is they are really in search of.People go about fulfilling these dreams by using sordid reality and inthe end it does non measure up to the size of it of the dream itself thedreamer is bound to be disappointed with every motion of thedream. At the conclusion of Fitzgeralds book, The Grea t Gatsby, the maincharacter Gatsby has latterly died and Nick stands facing the frontdoor of Gatsbys mansion. From this moment, Nick looks at Gatsbyshouse for a last time. He sees a entrust 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 intimidate Gatsbysdream pure even though it is already lost. posterior on while Nick is allalone, everything begins to melt away. He starts to photo how itlooked a hundred years ago when the Dutch sailors first reached a new macrocosm. Nicks world becomes the world of idealism, where the physicalworld doesnt matter the great house of Gatsby begins to melt awayand eventually disappear in Nicks mind for that moment. Nick sees that, for a transitory enchanted moment man must have heldhis breathing spell in the presence of this continent, compelled into anaesthetic contemplation he neither dumb nor desired, face toface for the last time in history wi th something capable to hiscapacity for wonder, (pg 189). For that one time the Dutch merchantssaw the idea of stead 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 purview which noman has but he whose eye can meld all the parts, that is, thepoet,(Nature). The Dutch saw the beauty of the land and trees and