FREE ESSAY ON PHILOSOPHY OF GATSBY

PHILOSOPHY OF GATSBY

This book, The Great Gatsby, is a tale of deceit and the silent despair in the world of
the human. Everything is not what it is made out to look like and often convincing as
such. It is created by and creates the fear of being left in that portal which is the
object of escape and the depths of despair. It shows life is a whirlwind which cannot be
controlled, and many times even for the sick is not wished to be controlled because
humans are too worrisome over what will and will not be and would rather turn their backs
than face what is real. Distressing to look at and face but bliss to ignore and get on
with the life which you know nothing about and never will know about because you are too
stupid not to have the thought to want to know about. Humans do not do what is best for
them and others only what will protect them from austerity, leading the path wide open
for the dullness and loneliness they cannot find within themselves because yet again they
ignore it with stupidity. This is a sad, pathetic, and rueful story showing the
discontent and avarice that lies within the human mind. On the other hand, it shows the
nescience, naivete, and overall dullness of the mind who tries for something that is
already to far gone to worry about, often the characteristics of the heart. The battle of
the heart and mind is one that has and will go on for ages and is too petty of a matter
to suffer over because if you let one or the other control it is much to easy to ruin
yourself.
"I am what I cannot be and am what I am not. My mind tells me I am not what I believe and
want to be, but my heart tells me I am what I believe and want to be so I must be what I
am not. But what am I? Am I life or death? Am I old or new, close or far? But I am what I
believe to be, but belief is rarley fact. Then what of fact? Is it truth or still just
belief? Is anything truth? Or, is everything real? All myths and legends surround life
and make life what it is or is not. So all must be true. Isn't it?"
The moral of the story: Everything is truth so you cannot lie, but the truth that you do
lie is what causes suffering.