gatsby

People today have many desires that are not within their reach but yet they aspire to grasp them. Their whole lives revolve around these practically unattainable goals and due to this their lives no longer have any value nor meaning. Many of them dwell in the happiness of their past and they are extremely obsessed with reliving it. And therefore they have high hopes for the future. They unfortunately do not allow any room for …

…his excess in emotion and love for Daisy. As Gatsby tragically portrayed it, an excess in anything is not rewarding and may be very harmful. One must admire his past without obsessing about it and he must have the capability to move on. F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporated this important message of daily life in the novel The Great Gatsby and it is cleverly stated in a beautiful passage in the last paragraph of the novel.