Blog Post 28: Take the Clothes off my BAAAAAACK

Out of all the characters from 'The Great Gatsby', Jay Gatsby seems to be one of the characters who cannot seem to understand the difference between reality and illusion. After he fell in love with Daisy, he can't seem to get her out of his head, he is basically blinded with love. He does not seem to realize that she will never leave her husband, Tom. She does not leave him just because she uses him for "fun". They are both just playing with each other (Daisy and Tom). In chapter eight, Dr. T.J. Eckleburg says that the billboard with the billboard with the eyes, symbolizes the eyes of God that watch what people do. "I spoke to her... I told her she might fool me but she couldn't fool God. I took her to the window... God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!" (Fitzgerald pg.167) Fitzgerald is trying to show that the things we truly love with all of our hearts will blind us from what is reality and from the truth and will then lead to someone's ruin. Gatsby's biggest desire was Daisy. He wanted to have her in his arms again and wanted that love to be in between them like it once was but it would not be possible because that love was gone. The novel is like the quest of a knight for a grail because a knight would give anything even his life for the grail. Same way Gatsby would give up his life for the love to stay in between Daisy and himself. "But now he found that he had committed himself to the following of a grail. He knew that Daisy was extraordinary, but he didn't realize just how extraordinary a "nice" girl could be. She vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby - nothing. He felt married to her, that was all." (Fitzgerald pg.156)