| Gatsby Always Fails: My Explanation | |
| Posted by: Musicals54 11:45 am EDT 05/01/24 | |
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| Gatsby has no agency. Gatz did but once his love for Daisy eggs him onto becoming Gatsby and moving to Long Island, he is simply a shining jewel in other peoples' story. The inciting incidents occur long before he becomes Gatsby. Nick is an unusual narrator as he distances Gatsby from us. Gatsby's tragedy is more melodrama as his death is a mistake. George thinks he was the one who killed Mildred it was, of course, Tom who (as Fitzgerald wrote)disappears into his money. How do you dramatize that? Have him jump into a vat of dollar bills? Both too literal and not the point. Fitzgerald says it all in 4 words. Nick is not an omniscient narrator nor an unreliable narrator. In some ways it is his story about his discovery of the excesses of the 1920s and perhaps the futility of love. I always have taken the title to be ironic. | |
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