Connections+to+Gatsby

Daisy, however, is not clear on what her feelings are for not only Gatsby but her husband Tom as well and when Gatsby asks her to leave Tom, she hesitates. At this moment Gatsby's dream bursts into a million peaces. The whole time Gatsby has somehow been stuck in the past and has not realized that the ideal world that he created in his mind could have never become reality.**
 * When Gatsby and Daisy first meet after years of not seeing each other, a feeling of release, trust, and immediate attraction overcomes them. Soon after that Gatsby is convinced, that he can win Daisy back and starts to form an image of them in his head that he desperately tries to make reality. He feels like she is the one for him; the only one who can love him the way he loves her.

This painting by Cleve Gray caught my eye because when you look at it first, it looks like there is no message behind it. But once you look at it for a little longer, images that you weren't able to see before, start to appear. i see two people kissing, an incomplete heart, lines leading to, and away from confusion; i see a face. This, of course, is all very much my interpretation of the painting and nature of my imagination. I decided to connect this painting //Tycho's Fruit// to The Great Gatsby, because it seems like a very different but good representation of Gatsby's dream of happiness. He dreamed of Daisy and him being together (as in two people kissing), but on his way to reality he forgot about all the hindrances that he would have to overcome. Instead of getting what he wanted right away and without difficulty, the opposite happened and his perfect path to happiness was destroyed and he ended up with nothing. He never reached his goal of embracing Daisy and having her to himself; his heart was left broken and incomplete.

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