Monday, December 11, 2006
To a certain extent yes. As Nick says, “Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men."He was merely a young boy wishing to improve himself, to escape the cycle of poverty which had encapsuled his family. His ticket was the bootlegging and decadent culture of the 1920's and his model would be a slighltly altered version of his mentor Dan Cody. However true and pure his goals might be, it was the corruption of his methods, and not his initial goal(which was to achieve wealth and happiness), that destroyed him. He realised that to achieve his dream, he had use foul methods like bootlegging and lying to make himself seem rich and noble. His dreams were somehow pure and innocent as he looked for wealth and happiness, he lacked maturity to see that what he was chasing after was endless and that it was pointless for him to pursue it anyway.
bubblebuddy took the leap at 6:04 PM
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