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ILLUSIONS IN THE GREAT GATSBY

Illusions in the Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald implicates the idea of ignorance is bliss. He helps to show this idea by
quoting in the preface, "...the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world
so that you don't care weather things are true or false..." Gatsby has an ever-lasting
love for Daisy. While Gatsby is having this obsession over Daisy, he is content with his
life until he losses the illusion that he can have her. An illusion is also occurring in
the marriage of Tom and Daisy. They both continue to live together even though they both
are having affairs.
Gatsby has an ever-lasting love of Daisy. He goes as far as moving across from Daisy's
house so he can look at Daisy's light. The light represents the burning desire he has for
Daisy. Gatsby again shows his want for Daisy; he subconsciously knocks over a clock. This
symbolizes that he wants to stop time, so it could be like the time when he was with
Daisy before the war. This desire is present until a short time before he is murdered.
Tom and Daisy's marriage is also an illusion. Bot of them are having affairs and they
continue to live together as if they are happily married. They probably did this because
they wanted to still be sociable with other rich members of high society; they did not
want to become out casts.
In both cases, Gatsby, Tom and Daisy are happy until their illusion comes crashing down
on them, revealing the horrors of reality. Even after all the parties Gatsby has thrown,
nobody comes to his funeral. The members of high society have realized the illusion that
he has created around himself. I feel this novel moral is, live in the present, don't
dwell on the past.
Bibliography
The Grate Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald