The Great Gatsby Book Project

            I chose to depict Gatsby in a drawing. I drew him standing on the end of his dock, as he would frequently do during his elaborate parties, watching the green light at the end of Daisy Buchanan’s dock. Behind him is a hand holding a gun pointed at him. It basically sums up Gatsby's life and what ended it. 

             Gatsby is absolutely in love with Daisy, even though she is married to Tom Buchanan. He would always throw these extravagant parties to try and impress Daisy hoping that one day she would realize that she was in love with him too. He would spend nights gazing at this green light at the end of her dock just because of the fact that it was one thing that he could have an intimate feeling for without disrupting or causing trouble with the Buchanan relationship. It symbolizes how he still has hope and still dreams that she will love him too.

                The gun represents how his love for Daisy essentially killed him. He had tried to keep it discrete but even the way he looked at her sparked a fury in Tom, even though he too was cheating on Daisy with his own friend George Wilson’s wife Myrtle. Myrtle was hit and killed by Gatsby’s car, but Daisy was actually the one driving it. Due to the fact that Tom already had a grudge against Gatsby for loving Daisy, he told George that it was Gatsby who hit Myrtle. Out of anger and melancholy George sends a bullet into Gatsby, ending his life.

                My drawing represents Gatsby’s love and essentially how strong it was. He would do anything for Daisy and he died because of her. Basically everything Gatsby had done and was known for, like his parties, were all to impress Daisy. She was the light in his life.