Thursday, October 3, 2013

What is to want?

Many people have things in life that are not appreciated. It's always better to want more, this takes life to another level. There are many things that people want as love, money, friendship or everything. This can never happen if people don't set goals for themselves, they can make people work as hard to achieve their dreams. 

Is better to want because like in The Great Gatsby many of the character wanted something so bad that they did everything in their power to make them happen. The characters that demonstrated this need were Gatsby, Nick, Tom and Daisy probably most of the main characters of the book. Gatsby the only thing that wanted the most was the love of Daisy. He knew he needed to do everything in his power to make the past come back to reality. The love of Daisy meant everything to him. when he came back from war and knew that she was about to get married made him do the impossible to regain Daisy's love. He wanted love, but all Daisy wanted as the money.

The 20's  were years that made people want more especially the poor because the wanted the American Dream that was all a lie. The rich had it all, the only things they wanted were things but not the ones that made you a better person. The corruption in this time was big, making the things that people want irrelevant. The Great Gatsby is a novel that reveals that the American Dream is not true making it an idea not reality. This was the idea that people had in the 20s the need to want a better life.

This illustrates how want is much better than have. The idea of having something make everything less needed as a goal. Goals make life more exciting because you would need to work and experience much more things if you want. The Great Gatsby was a great example to show what many peoples ideas of want are and how are they more important then to have..    

1 comment:

  1. I disagree with you. Like you stated, people do everything in their power to make what they want happen as illustrated in The Great Gatsby. Look where they ended up. Dead and careless.

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