compare jay gatsby's vision of daisy with newland archer's vision of ellen

Jay Gatsby’s vision of Daisy compare with Newland Archer’s vision of

Ellen

Jay Gatsby’s vision of Daisy is not only similar with Newland Archer’s vision of Ellen, but also the two men characters have the different emotional attitudes that results in the different endings in some extend. From the background of the two novels, some similarities cannot be found difficultly.

They happened in the same periods, people shared the same education, social atmosphere, religion and so on. For example, attitudes towards mundane was stubborn and uninhibited behavior was not accepted absolutely. The two novels mounded such similar unusual love stories, in which the protagonists perplex their lovers. Jay Gatsby and Newland Archer both chased true love, and indisposited with traditional emotions, and struggle to rush out from them. Once decided what was deserved to catching, they would try their best to do it regardless of others objections. Fortunately, Jay Gatsby was addicted to Daisy, Newland Archer to Ellen. At the first beginning, the attracted each other and enjoyed a good time. They want be their own and have the right of decision by themselves. They failed. No matter what happened, neither of them gained happiness. The similarities of the two men are just a little part, most is the differences.

Jay Gatsby became a wealthy man when he grew up, although he was born into a poor farmer family. So in his heart, was eager to gain wealth and success. Later, He attended College but dropped out .After that, he met copper tycoon Dan Cody. Cody taught him a lot, including the ways of the wealthy. In 1917, 27-year-old Gatsby met and fell in love with 18-year-old debutante Daisy Fay.During the war, Gatsby reached the rank of Major got a great achievements. One day, he received a letter from Daisy, telling him that she had married Tom Buchanan. Gatsby then decided to commit his life to becoming a man of the kind of wealth and stature he believed would win Daisy's love. In the end, he failed. No matter what he did, Daisy didn’t want to be with him. Gatsby insisted that Daisy loved him, not Tom, and that she only married Tom for his money. Daisy Buchanan was always attracted to money. It is because of this that she marries Tom Buchanan despite still loving Jay Gatsby, a poor soldier. Gatsby spends five years building up a fortune and a property and hosting elaborate parties to attract Daisy to come back to him. Daisy admitted she loved both Tom and Gatsby.

He ends up succeeding for a period of time. Daisy finds that Gatsby is the loving gentleman she wants to take care of her instead of her adulterous husband. When Daisy realizes that Gatsby is not really who he says he is, which occurs because of Tom's background search of Gatsby, she decides that she can no longer be with Gatsby. Gatsby’s vision of daisy was blindness. In some extend, what he wanted to gain is to demonstrate himself.

Newland Archer have a prominent families in New York, he is looking forward to his engagement with May, from an equally prominent New York family. So he has a sound education and a good family. Poverty is far away from him when he was born. Newland Archer accepted traditional education and is willing to followed engagement. This is his characteristic. But everything would change.

And then along comes European Ellen, and Newland's world is turned upside down. Newland is so seduced by Ellen's charms. The key might be in the word "dilettante. How is Newland a dilettante, a dabbler, an amateur? Unlike Gatsby, Newland has the fatal flaw of being intellectual.

Newland's reading list includes novels, poetry, history, and anthropology, because he actually enjoys and appreciates art. He is often reflective and contemplative, which means being critical and snarky, at least towards his peers. Under Ellen's influence, his analytical side comes out in full force, eventually to the point where he is almost ready to sacrifice everything to run away with her. Newland is constantly going off into daydreams; visualizing romantic scenarios with Ellen hat do n’t come to pass. The vision, more than the experience, is what entrances Newland.

Newland Archer is a study in intellectual conflict, but under the surface little contradiction actually exists, as his wife knows well. He contemplates his perfect wife, May, and seems quite at ease as her parents buy his house and even the brougham he drives. So correct is he that when he impulsively sends yellow roses to Ellen, he is conscience stricken and must tell his future wife. Even his meticulous attention to the list of his duties before his own wedding is typical of Newland's conformity. In a key scene when he fails to call to Ellen at the Newport shore, he once again shows that actually doing the unconventional is beyond the bounds of possibility for him. Countess Ellen represents a

dream of the unconventional, more passionate life for which he will never sacrifice everything. He sometimes feels he is being smothered in his social position, but he will only dream about a life outside the tight parameters of his class and duty. May uses her knowledge of his commitment to the social values of his class to keep him faithful. Even 26 years after his wedding, he realizes that his conventional life has the comforting feeling of the place where he belongs. He is a relic, where increased personal freedom is changing life forever.

The sexual double standard for men and women is an intellectual battleground in his mind. In several scenes, he debates whether this standard is valid, especially when he meets and desires Ellen. He talks convincingly about honor and integrity, but selfishly he wants both his wife and Ellen. Newland also longs for a life of passion, intellectual stimulation, and freedom, represented by both Ellen and May. He is unfulfilled by his "gentlemanly pursuit" of law and feels that he wants the sophisticated and passionate Ellen. But in the end he remains true to his station in life and that four-letter word, "duty."

All in all, Gatsby to daisy is obsessed and struggled to the end, regardless of what is right and what is wrong. What he care is to obtain the love of daisy. it is lamentable. And I don’t understand such psychology. For Newland to Ellen is abstinent, leaving at a proper time is a good choice.