Appearance overpowers Reality

Appearance overpowers Reality

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is one of the most exquisite pieces of literature ever written in American history. The novel, told from Nick Carraway’s perspective, involves the life of Jay Gatsby and his desire to recapture the love of Daisy Buchanan. From the beginning to the end of the novel, Fitzgerald shows the difference between the appearance and the reality of each character involve in the story. A couple of Fitzgerald’s characters in the story shows that wealth is more important to them rather than love. Despite their money, popularity, and looks, Fitzgerald reveals that the appearance is the element in which most people look for, but the element that people should look for is the reality in which it is found inside of an individual.

Throughout the story, Fitzgerald utilizes the form of appearance over the form of reality, in particular Jay Gatsby. Gatsby is frequently look through his appearance because no one exactly knows who Gatsby really is. As some of the characters declare, “Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once,’ than argue Lucille. ‘“it’s more that he was a German spy during the war”’ (Fitzgerald 44). On the other hand the story reveals that in reality Gatsby was a bootlegger and that is how he acquire his fortune. Gatsby is introduce as one of the wealthiest people in all New York by arranging tremendous parties, with colored lights placed on his garden, an extravagant amount of cuisine and liquor, and by hiring a large orchestra (Fitzgerald 40). And as people think that since Gatsby is rich it means that he is a rude, unpleasant, cheap person, and that a gentlemen like him would only do this to brag about what he owns, but in reality Gatsby is one of the nicest characters in the story and someone who would fight for what he wants. As Nick declare, “Gatsby turned out all right at the end” (Will). Also, Gatsby only prepares the parties because his intention is to get to his one true love which is Daisy Buchanan and to keep her away from Tom Buchanan.

Daisy might look astonishing on the outside, but in the inside she is a total chaos. Daisy’s appearance is a wealthy and a beautiful girl whose obsession is the money. Gatsby made an opinion, “Her voice of full of money” (Fitzgerald 120). Gatsby made a comment on Daisy because in reality that is what she wants and nothing but money. That is why she married Tom and if it were for love she would wait for Gatsby after returning from the war. But deep down her heart, the reality is that she loves Gatsby. The reason is that when Tom left the room Daisy got up and went over with Gatsby and pulled him closer to her so she could kiss him, afterwards Daisy told Gatsby she loves him (Fitzgerald 116). Daisy’s life would have been better by living with Gatsby, if he have not gotten shot, rather than with Tom Buchanan

Even though Tom

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