one man, look "the grains of the stars" in the summer night and contemplate the green light across the bay.
A Man and His Dream, endless nostalgia of a past beauty and possessed a day, five years earlier. You can repeat the past? "Sure you can" Gatsby's answer, that this dream does not live in the present. In New York
roaring twenties the fascinating Gatsby offers sumptuous feasts in his mansion on Long Island.
Not all are invited, some of them are filed by someone who knows Gatsby and behave like an amusement park without even worry about personally know the landlord.
of him and the origin of his money you do not know a lot and we talk a lot, is mysterious and romantic, a little part to his own reception by the exaggerated luxury.
Mille solitudes meet and communicate.
high society is frivolous and that Fitzgerald describes in rich look at critical times, appreciate the luxury, elegance, wealth, nor disapproves of the cynicism and selfishness, but his character Gatsby is a top, and the ' man who puts all the pure and pristine dream lived in his youth.
Gatsby has a winning smile.
"He was one of those smiles rare, with an eternal encouragement, who meet four or five times in life. He faced - or seemed to face - the whole world for an eternal moment, and then focused on the person to whom it was addressed with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. "
the evening, Gatsby turns his gaze to the green light to the pier across the bay, where Daisy lives.
is tending to her arms, shivering in the night, is to contemplate the infinite beauty of his dream that he built his home there.
His desire to reclaim it, it's forever in the memory Daisy has remained intact, is a dream untouchable and incorruptible stronger and more beautiful than reality itself.
"There is no fire or frost that challenge what a man can accumulate in your heart." He wants to revive the love flourished before the war between him and Daisy, Daisy who refused the same a few years earlier because he was poor and without prospects. She married Tom, a young scion of one of the great American families, the arrogant rich who betrays her with impunity, but has ensured that the standard of living expensive that Gatsby was not able to offer at the time of their love.
Gatsby will be excited, even embarrassed, when it will review Daisy for the first time in a long time, she is his dream and not see beyond that, does not perceive the superficiality, cynicism, recklessness, typical of Fitzgerald's female characters are able to fall in love and at the same time to demolish a man. "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy: things and people dashed to pieces and then retreated into their money or their carelessness." Daisy's voice wraps it like a song immortal, in a distant day the man was chained forever to that beauty. Can not now, get away from that ideal, to accept the death of dreams. Unfortunately, the protagonist will die without getting the woman he loves forever, but the tragedy first move when he has already told all the mismatch of reality with the dream.
The two worlds apart, separated from the sea, will never find a true meeting point, but the strength of this story of love and hope, the dream being convinced beyond any hypocrisy in having powered up extreme, even after seeing him get away and dissolve. That's why Gatsby remains a memorable character.
Gatsby does not live on this, hopefully in the future, but his gaze is fixed in the past, the memory that holds steel, as the pivot of his existence.
"So we keep on rowing, boats against current driven back ceaselessly into the past. "
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The Great Gatsby Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald [1896 - 1940]
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