English 2600

Gatsby till the end of his life I believe was a dreamer. Gatsby was still caught up in his idealist views that captivated him for all of his life. He always lived in a dream world, he saw the world how he wanted to see it. He never let the reality out weigh his dream of Daisy. Gatsby never saw Daisy as the carless and wreckless girl, he only lived in the past. Even at the end he thought that Daisy would call him. "I suppose Daisy'll call too."(154)
He was clinging to the dream because if the dream died he died along side it. I can see how Gatsby would have to die in this book. You see at the end of the book almost a decay of the spirit that encompassed Gatsby. His dream and imagination became so fantastic that when shot down only leaves devastation. Where would Gatsby had gone from there?
In some ways I wish that Gatsby would have gotten the dream that he wanted. I wish that people lived up to the ideal he had set. But then again we wouldn't have a story and a story that shows real life human characteristics now would we?