The American Dream_1_1

The American Dream

Ambition
1. Tragedy
  1. Deception
    1. Death
      1. "So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight." (129
      2. "So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight." (129)
    2. ”It was a strange coincidence,” I said “But it wasn’t a coincidence at all.” […] “Gatsby bought the house so that Daisy would be just across the Bay “(76)
    3. I am justly kill'd with mine treachery(5.2.337)
  2. Now, sir, young Fortinsbras, Of unimproved mettle hot and full, Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there Shark’d up a list of lawless resolute, for food and diet to some enterprise that hath stomach in’t; which is no other- As it doth well appear unto our state- But to recover of us, by strong hand and terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands so by his father lost (107-116)
  3. "The cam the war old sport. It was a great relief, and i tried very hard to die, but i seemed to bear an enchanted life."(64)
Greed
1. Entitlement/Power
  1. Relationships
    1. Deciete/ Lying
      1. "At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him: Be you and I behind an arras then; Mark the encounter:"(2.2.176-178)
      2. "You see," cried Catherine triumphantly. She lowered her voice again. "It's really his wife that's keeping them apart. She's a Catholic, and they don't believe in divorce." Daisy was not a Catholic, and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie." (35-36)
    2. "She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not nor it cannot come to good: But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue."(1.2.161-164)
    3. He nodded sagely. "And what's more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time."(125)
  2. “That cannot be; since I am still possess'd Of those effects for which I did the murder, My crown, mine own ambition and my queen.” (3.3.57-59)
  3. "Taking a white card from his wallet and waved it infront of the man's eyes"(67)
Revenge
1. Dissapointment
  1. Inability too act
    1. Self-acctualization
      1. "I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so."(2.2.319-334)
      2. "The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end."(
    2. "Now might I do it pat, now he is praying; And now I'll do't. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged. That would be scann'd: A villain kills my father; and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven."(3.3.76-82)
    3. "He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was."(106)
  2. "Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled. No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head. Oh, horrible, oh, horrible, most horrible! If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not. Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damnèd incest. But howsoever thou pursuest this act, Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her."(84-95)
  3. “Oh, you want too much!” she cried to Gatsby. “I love you now — isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.” She began to sob helplessly. “I did love him once — but I loved you too.” (126)

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