Great Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgeraald, A Critical Analysis

Theodore Roethek once wrote "In a dark time, the eye begins to see..." This means that in times of great trials and tribulations, when all seems lost; an inner sense of motivation kicks in. You get a new sense of direction and something is keeping you guided. F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby illustrates this quote perfectly. In this novel, the characters, the conflicts, and everything in between are all intertwined through characterazation and …

…around when it was in its darkest time. All he needed was some motivation and it came in the form of a girl. Gatsby shows us what can happen if we really put our minds to something, but he also shows how terrible wrong it can turn. His worst crime, aside from everything he had ever earned, was for loving Daisy to much. He became obsessed with her, and in the end it killed him.