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Gatsby’s tragic flaw is his inability to wake up from his dream of the past and accept reality. His obsession with recapturing his past relationship with Daisy compels him to a life of crime and deceit. He becomes a bootlegger, does business with a gangster, and creates a false identity. He is rumored to have killed a man.
Consistent with classical tragic drama, the fall of the tragic hero has consequences beyond himself. Although Gatsby is not of high estate like classical tragic figures, his tragedy engulfs others, not in terms of national chaos, but in a domestic sense. Both Gatsby and Tom are responsible for challenging marriage as an institution.
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LOVE. In The Great Gatsby, love plays a vital role in the play. It is a theme that colours and permeates all the relationships in one way or another. Many have misunderstood the novel as a simple tragic romance, which ends with the main character’s death - an outcome of many romantic tragedies.
Relationship 1: Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. The relationship at the very heart of The Great Gatsby is, of course, Gatsby and Daisy, or more specifically, Gatsby's tragic love of (or obsession with) Daisy, a love that drives the novel's plot.
Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy primarily represents his idealization of the past and quest for a certain lifestyle, rather than genuine romantic love. The theme of love in the novel also reveals destructive tendencies , as idealized love leads to obsessive behaviour, deceit, and ultimately tragedy.
Written by the American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century and arguably Fitzgerald’s seminal text. It is set in the summer of 1922 in New York. It has 9 chapters and is framed by Nick Carraway, an unreliable narrator. The story follows Nick’s memories of Jay ...
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But beneath all the decadence and romance, The Great Gatsby is a severe criticism of American upper class values. ... It is possible to regard Gatsby as an archetypal tragic figure, the epitome of ...
