"The Great Gatsby": Literary Analysis

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This paper examines the recurring theme of blindness to reality and the overall affects that it has on its main characters throughout "The Great Gatsby." It explains that the consequences for Nick, Tom, Daisy and Gatsby, all range from the departure of the East, to unnecessary death.

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"In F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, the narrator, Nick, explains that, as each character strives for their own goal in the novel, they "beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" (Chapter 9). This quote, relating to the recurring theme of blindness to reality, explains how the pursuit to reach the central goal of an ideal world is an ultimately vacuous one; those who continue to reach for their improbable future are pulled farther back into the reality of their past. The severity of costs in overlooking the existing realities varies throughout the novel; some characters are able to escape from the false world before being consumed by its splendor, while another suffers irrevocable, tragic consequences. This theme is most notably presented by Fitzgerald with the use of irony and symbolism."

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