Old Sport

Uncommon Expedition

Scrolling through blog post after blog post, there is one that discusses the value of specific variations in which makes us reflect on the greater wonder and aspect of what privileges we are given. There is no exaction, but only an insightful estimation of what we have gathered in our life experiences. However, we are driven to figure out these variations, these circumstances that make us run but approach them with courageous love.

Perhaps, the American Dream is not the absolute enlightenment we need to find, but rather, the greater wonder in ourselves. F Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, tells us the tale of James Gatz, who is notorious for earning his reputable status of being known as, Jay Gatsby. For James Gatz, the American Dream was about dismissing his shame of being a common boy from North Dakota. He is driven to separate himself from his parents who were poor farm workers. While separating himself from his upbringing, he strives to impress Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan's wife, and Nick Carraway's cousin. Nick Carraway is the narrator that brings us the exclusive invitation to Jay Gatsby's life experience.

James Gatz impressed everyone in the way he was able to curate the image of Jay Gatsby who made a fortune from his bootlegging work. From his work, he moves to West Egg where the newly rich live at. However, he moved there to be closer to Daisy. Daisy Buchanan lives in East Egg where the old rich are. As Carraway unfolds the tale, he and the audience finds out Gatsby and Meyer Wolfsheim do business together by illegally selling alcohol. Later on, Gatsby invites Nick Carraway to his place in the hopes of reconnecting with Daisy. This is where Daisy reunites with Gatsby ever since he left to serve in WWI. Carraway is dragged into the glamorous, devil may cry limelight of the luxurious lifestyle Gatsby adapted to gain the variation of wealth.

As Carraway observes and plays into his role of luxury with Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby, he witnesses a fearful revelation where there is so much superficial materialism that never translates into genuine love, but clusters of inevitable tragedies connected with the conditions of the third-dimension. Hammered and surrounded by petty drunkards, he doesn't want to confiscate his luxurious gratification, but he knows that he is losing himself in the situations he finds himself in. However, Gatsby's projection of shame throws him into an aggressive rampage, slapping Nick Carraway with the fact that luxury is not what it's cracked up to be. In this specific scene, Daisy Buchanan is scared, losing trust in Gatsby whereas Carraway continuously unravels how even a man as endearing as Gatsby can get lost in the variation of wealth. Even though Carraway distracts himself with endless gratified substances of luxury, he can't help but resonate with the ordeal that comes with luxury.

When the night chills into a somber slumber, Jay Gatsby tells Nick Carraway about the green light, attaching him to his American Dream of having the variation of wealth and Daisy Buchanan who is the glorious, pedestal of old money. Gatsby points to the green light, capturing himself in the visual projection of his fifth-dimension. As Nick Carraway shares, "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter – to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And one fine morning –" (Fitzgerald 193). He saw the visual projection of his fifth-dimension in the green light, but he kept chasing the delusion of the variation of wealth that he could replicate. However, no matter how much he replicated the variation, it would never be his nor was he ever born with it like Tom Buchanan. His delusion in the third-dimension was a resourceful membership to the variation of wealth, but if the green light was seen for its source without the delusion, then it would be a transparent portal to the fifth-dimension. Even though he kept chasing his delusion without a greater portal, a greater wonder to his being, he did not die for nothing. Gracefully, tragically, and romantically, Gatsby represented the integrations of the third and fifth-dimension.

To be continued here.