Gatsby and the frosted glass

Gatsby and the Frosted Glass All of us have ideas of what we want our lives to be. These ideas sometimes develop into dreams in our sleep or complaints against how things really are, but hardly ever do events play out exactly how we plan them. More often everything rushes in the opposite direction, disappointing us, and generally wrecking havoc on our puny little ideals. Luckily, there are some like Jay Gatsby of The Great …showed first 75 words of 875 total…

…showed last 75 words of 875 total…am, to be lost in a fantasy was admirable if not enviable. Gatsby had a direction, a goal in his life. Few people can argue that they truly have the sort of inspiration that he did regardless of the basis of his goal. And even though his complete adult life was witnessed through the haziness of his dream, we can say that the very "talent" that brought him down was enviable.