A Psychoanalysis of Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2013
- In this episode of "Emory Looks at Hollywood" Emory Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Jared DeFife, Ph.D., gives a psychoanalysis of one of literature's most mysterious and tragic characters, Jay Gatsby.
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Video Produced by: Stephen Beehler
So many of us are like Gatsby- . Unable to return to the past and unable to move on.
Absolutely.
iclandgirl Yep
And turning to organized crime to solve our money problems? Like pirate DVDs! lol jk
iclandgirl yes.
So what do we do? Die? For all the horrors of inertia...I still desire to live-even when there seems to be nothing left worth living for.
playboy ?
he gave his heart to the girl and never looked elsewhere
I don't think he's personally calling him a playboy, but listing how the public viewed him. You have this millionaire that throws massive parties every weekend and has numerous rumors about him, I'm sure most people of a public at that time would consider him as a playboy being one of his traits.
69megacock he was a playboy before daisy tho...
+drovid008 Dan Cody hooked him up good.
Gatsby had originally intended to use Daisy but ended up falling in love. Doesn't show a flattering image. Tom, no matter his shortcomings, married her right away, after all.
XzRaiderzX you'll have to read the novel, he had plenty of experience with women even as a teen.
Lana’s song contributed so much to the movie’s atmosphere.
Yeah, art deco right?
@@ma.cristinasaavedra7432 young and beautiful lmao
Yeah and the production
@@twilightgirl947 ohhh I guess I got it from that other video, I didnt think of that
I’m gonna be like Gatsby rich asf mysterious but ain’t dying for no Daisy
Fax
Go ahead man
And I'll visit your home at weekends 😝
If you don’t die for daisy you’ll never be gatsby
Raq Mountain they are other daisy
People laughed at me when I raised my hand in class and told everyone how I thought the broken clock symbolized how Gatsby wanted time to stop or break from the present. He caught time but it was already broken.
Class of 2016. Look at me now. Still in bed trying to get up for work lol
your classmates were dumb - outstanding discussion contribution ;)
Interesting, I said that the broken clock May have symbolized how gatsby and Daisy are stuck in time. They can’t have a future together despite gatsbys desire for one, and it represents how they can’t go forward (at least that’s how I saw it)
Wow
I remember in high school we all said that. I love this book it’s my favorite
he "set it back"
Foureyes: _Who is this Gatsby fella?_
Gatsby: _Sorry old sport, I thought you knew..._
J. Midnite best part
it’s quite alright.
Nobody:
UA-cam:let me recommend this psychoanalysis of The Great Gatsby from 7 years ago..
Dat So Us 6 years ago.....
Still watched it... ;-)
Kbp Cree hes coming from future
XD from lana del ray mv's to this
Considering Im learning about it in class it's great.
that clock analogy was raw af
i agree..would have never thought of that.
Pretty Dashing like it makes so much sense 😭
Andrea Travis That analogy was actually first made in an essay written in February 1990 by Tony Tanner
Andrea -yes!
@@sophiesophie986 yep
One important thing to me is to realize that Gatsby may possibly not love Daisy, he loves a kind of "idealization" of her or maybe what she represents through her lineage/money. There is a lot of elements in the novel pointing to the contrast between old money represented through Tom Buchanan and new money with Gatsby and also the place where they live: the contrast between East Egg/West Egg. Gatsby love for Daisy is a way to access this old aristocracy which he would normally not be able to reach because of his poor upbringings.
Secondly, there is a kind of criticism of materialistic America made by Fitzgerald: In the book, rich people (whether they are old/new money) seem to be so full of everything (in terms of possessions) but in the end they are poor inside: Gatsby dies lonely, Tom and Daisy don't love each other that is a just an intern-class marriage. People drink and party and entertain as a way to forget the emptiness and aimlessness of their lives.
Well, I may not be completely right or wrong but there certainly are a lot of different (and possibly not contradictories) interpretations to the story. Also the symbolism is very important in the novel: Gatsby fate seem to reproduce the fate of the American nation which is to say to push back the "frontier" (the undiscovered western land). Gatsby wants to go further, to earn more money, etc. Gatsby really embodies the idea of the American self-made man beginning from nothing and building his own success through hard work which is the essence of the American Dream. Yet, Fitzgerald challenges this American Dream: Gatsby's wealth was not made through honesty (he probably is a bootlegger) and in the end he dies alone.
The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite book and probably the best American novel to this day. I have re-read it like a thousand times and I can still discover new interpretations. Very powerful novel.
gatsby loved daisy beyond life itself
In a sense though, that validates the grandparents point. He loved the idea of her more than what she really was.
But you really miss that's just love bruh this happens
Gatsby was madly in love with Daisy - his infatuation with her led to his demise.
I like this interpretation very much.
My favorite part of the movie is when nick says it’s his 30th birthday. Then he goes on to say how this decade of this life is suppose to be depressing and sad and lonely. And this book was written in the 1920’s so I think that somehow Fitzgerald saw the Great Depression coming, and he saw that all this materialistic wealth and parties were going to end sometime.
Interesting observation! I've never thought of that
Gatsby is very shady. He changed his name and built his empire off of crime. But, it was all for Daisy. Yet, in the end, that is what caused his downfall. The saddest thing is that no one showed up to his funeral, not even Daisy. At least, no one who he genuinely cared for or who cared for him. Nick showed up. Though, it wasn't enough.
I'd love to see analysis of Daisy!
+Natali Zarbabyan All girls are like that, they get confused in love.
+pako ntshole, men are not quit confident in love either
+Natali Zarbabyan How so?
+pako ntshole, same as women
She sucks
End of analysis
This was Fitzgerald's story 😞 RIP. You may have thought yourself to be a failure, but you weren't. The Great Gatsby is one of my top 3 books of all time.
Mine too
@SpencerHastings Just offhand, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and In the Presidents Secret Sevice by Ronald Kessler. Definitely recommended. And yours?
@SpencerHastings Haven't read Perks but I did enjoy Hunger games.
i hates the great gatsby at first but now i’m obsessed
@@jordansweet8054 I would recommend you 'Surely, you're joking Mr. Feynman'.
Something different for you. It's got so many interesting and funny stories told by Feynman. You'll absolutely love it.
You know what I think the very most interesting thing about Jay Gatsby is?
A lot of people make a whole lot of assumptions about who Jay Gatsby is, what he's about, what his motivations are. Characters IN the book made their assumptions about him. Readers of the book and critics made their assumptions about him.
Yet, on the very first page of the book, Nick Carraway speaks about judgement--about how he has always been inclined to reserve it, as his father brought him up like that. That's what I see as the foundation for this story.
I have my own interpretations, my own way of reading the book, about what was meant about Gatsby, what kind of a person he was, and what his motivations were.
But at the least I'm willing to admit my interpretations might be wrong. I don't really know what Fitzgerald intended. But if I had to guess, I suspect that was the number one thing on Fitzgerald's mind. He DIDN'T want people making all these assumptions about Gatsby. Unless you REALLY got to know him, you couldn't understand him. And in the end, I don't think Nick or anyone did, which I think was just what Fitzgerald wanted. Even Fitzgerald couldn't quite understand him, I think. Fitzgerald once said that he never did have an entirely clear picture of just who Gatsby was.
He also said something to the effect that not one of critics that wrote reviews about The Great Gatsby really ever understood what the book was about. That, to me, is the most telling thing of all.
But of course, that's just my interpretation.
Iconian 1 You are quite right. Gatsby is quite an enigmatic character. It's implied that he's got lots of layers. Quite possibly, Fitzgerald was describing someone he had met, if it's true that even he couldn't understand Gatsby.
My impression of Gatsby is someone trying earnestly to belong to that class he aspires to, but never really succeeding. He seems hopeful, pretentious and conniving all at the same time.
For some reason he reminds me of someone with mild Aspergers. (I have it, so maybe that's why I'm keen to identify some traits.) He seems perfect on all social appearances but doesn't get a thing about social cues. His speech pattern seems copied and unnatural. He believes that what he is doing - getting rich for Daisy - is not wrong, so he's not bothered by the illegal bootlegging activities. He has parties but doesn't mingle. He is single minded in his pursuit. There's something innocent about him.
As you said, Gatsby has many layers, many different facets, which I think is a great part of what's kept the book selling for so long, and kept scholars and others intrigued--the multitude of interpretations, not unlike the Bible I think. But, even with what you say here, I have to at least bring up something.
Now I admit I may be wrong on this, but there's a couple things you said that I'm not convinced of, though it seems so many people are. It's been a few years since I read the book and watched the movie, but so far as I can recall, prior to the extremely hot summer day that Tom, Daisy, Nick and Gatsby all meet together and go into town, we still haven't discovered how Gatsby really made his money. It's at that point that Tom says that he's done a little investigating into Gatsby, and it looks like he's involved in illegal bootlegging. But what exactly does that mean?
By then, I think Tom has pretty well decided Gatsby is his enemy, his competitor. We've already learned quite a few shady things about Tom. My thought was that by then Tom would be quite willing to point out even the most tenuous connections of Gatsby to bootlegging in order to discredit him. I'm pretty sure Tom didn't name names or anything during that scene--but why not, if Tom was so sure of it?
But, of course, there were also rumors to that effect earlier in the book--and in particular, Meyer Wolfsheim, who Nick personally met with Gatsby in a speakeasy or wherever it was. So, we do know that he at least associates with those sorts of people--but just how far does that go? Did he really make all his money off illegal bootlegging? Maybe. Or perhaps just some of it. Or maybe none. At the least, as you said, he doesn't seem so bothered by the illegal bootlegging. But just what does this say about him? That he was corrupt? I don't know about you, but when I read and watched these things about Gatsby, I couldn't help but be reminded of Jesus Christ (too cliche?). Mark 2:14-16
14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him. 15 And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many
publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples:
for there were many, and they followed him. 16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
To me, as you said, there did seem to be something innocent about Gatsby. And at the end Nick speaks of how everyone guessed at his corruption, but that in fact he held an incorruptible dream . . .
There's some other interesting tidbits we knew about him. In a deleted scene on the DVD that I really can't understand Luhrmann removing from the movie--which was also at the end of the book--Gatsby's father shows up with a piece of paper from his youth, on which Gatsby had written out his schedule for, in essence, becoming a reasonably respectable and productive citizen. As the years passed, it seems to me that this above all motivated Gatsby--not even necessarily a desire for wealth, but a desire to better himself, something which seemed rather foreign to Gatsby's father. I think that this did end up getting caught up in Daisy, to some degree. Having her to think on may have given him a big push, spurring him to achieve his eventual wealth. But I think that little list his father brought after the funeral, and some other things as well, shows that he was already headed in that direction. I think it's even possible he'd have become rich had he never met Daisy.
These are just my own insights into what a few things might mean, alternate perspectives that I think few people consider. But once again, I do find it very interesting that Fitgerald felt that none of the critics had managed to understand the book. I'm sure a big part of that is because the entire book seems to be sprinkled by Fitzgerald with tantalizing clues--it MIGHT be this, it MIGHT be that, proteans open to wide interpretation. He allows readers to make their assumptions--and so far as I know he never really bothered to tell people what he meant after the fact. He seemed to relish the rumors. And so, the truth is I really don't know what was meant in the book. Unless Fitzgerald were to tell, I don't think anyone could really know.
Cazales john
@King Of Cool But then it also implies that Nick failed at sticking to that advice his father gave him. As it also mentions his limit in not-judging people. Still he was the one closest to Gatsby in the end and possibly the only one that cared.
But that also doesn't really matter. The most important lesson about interpreting that I've learned in school was that what the author had intended as an interpretstion is in no way a limit towards ypur possible spectrum of interpretations. Meaning you are in no way limited by the author's vision. Quite the contrary. As a reader it's your job to form your own opinion whether that be in tandem with the author or not
my poor poor gatsby
I think what mostly goes unnoticed is the fact that he has these child like actions when he is about to meet daisy again for the first time.
It just shows that their relationship takes him back to the person he used to be before all the succes and the war formed this other more grown up version of him.
However I think in this very scene you see his persona falling apart and you realize it was all just an act.
There was never any personal or rather emotional growth that came with the things he has endured.
He never wanted to be that person he portrayed he just wanted to be enough.
This is truly one of the most tragic parts of his character in the movie.
He was still this young man who was deeply in love with this person that came from a background where the values in the peoples mindset were just too big of a difference to overcome.
An ideal that he tried to fit in but never really did. That is why after the party is over no one attended his funeral.
He was never one of them.
I remember reading Gatsby in high school, and it didn’t really connect with me. I wasn’t mature enough-not enough life experience. I went on to become an English professor and lost my own “Daisy” and now it hits home like no other piece of art. What we don’t learn in Gatsby is what would happen to him if he was forced to keep on living after he lost Daisy. That’s the story I need in my life. Was it a blessing that he wasn’t forced to redefine his purpose in life? What does he do with all that energy and drive once Daisy is no longer an option?
Ryan Mahoney simple he makes money and gets new goals just as anyone gets new ideas.. and also wow untill you were a profesor man that is late
I think one possibility is that he tries to make sense out of his life up to that point as, if he hadn't dreamed of Daisy or he reverts his life goals back to what they were before he met Daisy.
I think this is why Fitzgerald kills him off. I don't think Gatsby will find a life without Daisy because she is so intrinsically connected to this idea of the American Dream for him. The fact that in this country, it doesn't matter where you start out, you can become anyone you wish. This is such a powerful thing. If he could just repeat the past, go back, start over by marrying Daisy at her parents home then he would have achieved his idea of the American Dream. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us." In the story, we're under the assumption that the green light is about Daisy because it is at the end of her dock. However, we realize at the end of the novel that the "green light" refers to the American Dream. The idea that a man can become anyone he wants, regardless of his birthright and for Gatsby, there is only one. This is why it's a tragedy.
Well... what if you tried viewing it from daisys perspective, but let’s take away her lust for money. And have her keep that child like hope she had as a teen.
She’s still hurt but won’t accept you back. What if things went that way?
What if you were gatsby and you had more than enough time to make up...
until time was up. And now someone new is next...
what if daisy is still hurt as well?
Would it alleviate the pain ?
What if ... this wasn’t going to be your last meeting ?
What if you were to live a long life . Die, and do it again in another time and another world as two different people?
Did you love her... as a simply flesh and bone. Or did you love her soul entirely?
Gatsby loved the "idea" of Daisy or the Daisy that once was, when the met just before the war. When he came back into her life, he knew she was married and had a child, but he didn't want to admit to himself that Daisy and Tom had ever been intimate and in the book, when he sees their daughter, it's a telling moment because she is proof that Daisy and Tom did in fact, consummate their union. He tries to ignore what was right in front of him; and Daisy couldn't just walk away from her life, although part of her may have wanted to. Tom would never have let her go and she had a child to consider. Gatsby was an idealist, and refused to accept reality. That was what led to his downfall.
He was a romantic, he was one of those people who's entire character was romance almost. But he couldn't put his feet on the ground.
@@vincemelson9655 He was obsessive. That's not romantic.
@@Muirmaiden I think he was romantic at heart, but he was the type of person who didn't like to lose. He believed Daisy was meant for him, and he didn't have the courage or the emotionally intelligence to move on, and yes was absolutely obsessive. I think you can really care about someone, and act obsessive for a moment, but for he couldnt distinguish the real daisy from his projections, and he wouldn't face reality.
Gatsby simply portrayed its writer, Fitzgerald about his obsession over his wife Zelda, and Zelda’s obsession over self validation by being a socialite and throwing one party to another extravagant one. He became a rich and success writer only to impressed her. And in the end, deep down inside he knew the only thing he got was himself. It’s too tragic that a brilliant man like Fitzgerald have to ended up like that, in fact he had a trouble with debt till death. Fitzgerald is my top list writer, Great Gatsby, Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Beautiful and Damned, etc.
Actually, most of it is based on Fitzgerald's courtship of socialite Ginevra King. She ended things with him to marry a man of her own social standing
Gatsby loved what he believed Daisy was and how she would perfect him, reflect his upper class
Something changes everytime I watch or read this novel again. It really touches my heart in a way that I cannot describe.
I think Gatsby is so wrapped up in the idea of "if only i could..." that he's unable to move on from the past that he spent his life trying to capture that light he thought would finally make him satisfied.
In a way i like how psychoanalysis reveals that love isn't everything. Gatsby's love for Daisy isn't just love but comes with resentment and denial, so he is willing to put aside his pride and worship her and her flaws. And Daisy is his symbol of good catch. He wants to be rich and get the rich girl and prove he can support her with luxury. That's a hell of rich combo. It's not the same like being rich supporting a poor girl, because you gotta gain the rich girl's ego, this is an achievement compared to flatter a grateful poor girl, or being poor with a rich girl who accept his poor self, because even he despises himself bring poor. Gatsby is an obsessed sober man to Daisy, she may find him annoying, while the man Daisy settles for, Tom, besides being rich for he is already rich and doing successful, he takes pride originally on himself that Daisy finds comfort in looking up to and hang on him for, doesn't matter if he's a jerk. Tom has the personality alongside reputation, unlike Gatsby who isn't originally rich and just turn so for the sake of Daisy and his denial to his poor origin.
Sally Lemon Gatsby didn't SEE any of Daisy s flaws , he didn't even 100 per cent SEE who Daisy was and had always been....not unlike what Zelda told Scott, you love what never really exsisted
I think so too
Gags by was building a castle. Doesn't mean it wasn't necessarily authentic. He just had to have what he wanted...that kinda perfect situation.
Elizabeth Markham, who says Gatsby didn't see Daisy's flaws? You probably don't recall a part in the book, near the middle I think, when Gatsby was compared with a seismograph--something about him having an incredibly acute awareness of small things. As with so much in this book, it's hard to know for sure what Fitzgerald meant. But I think it's possible that Gatsby was well aware of Daisy's flaws, but still found her worthwhile--because even in spite all the bad things we were told about Daisy over the course of the book, perhaps there was even more to it all--perhaps there were some other amazing things about Daisy that were never given to the readers, things which actually made Gatsby believe Daisy would be worthwhile.
But there's so much in this book that was never explained. We'll probably never entirely know all that Fitzgerald meant--it seems even he didn't always know what everything he wrote meant.
Agree! Getting the rich girl is different
Just a correction, Gatsby wasn't seventeen when he met Daisy, he met her five years before he saw her again and when they meet again he is around 30 odd..
Daisy was seventeen when they met
In the movie he said he was 32 .. so they met when he was 27 I guess?
Guys I think he was supposed to say the year 1917. It's the spring of 1922 when they reunite, thus 5 years later.
Jay Gatsby was NOT a Playboy. He dedicated his life and heart to one woman. And he would've given Daisy the rest of his life's work for her betterment.
Playboy here can just mean guy who throws parties. That's what it used to mean before Hef's magazine.
Im going through the same thing............
if i can only get to the light...
don't follow the lights!
TobiDeLafayette THE Dark Lights.
Take a very careful look at the light, and make sure just how real it is--just on the surface, or really something deeper.
Sometimes the light isn't what it seems to be from afar.
I'm on the same steps as gatzby, coming all the way from the slums of mexico to being an NCO in the army, ready for the next step
It was kinda scary that this story, The Great Gatsby mirrors what happened in my life. The yellow dress. The feelings of shame, the marriage, the wealth, the past love, cannot move on, the guilt, the complicated grief reaction, North Dakota. The death. Daisy living... Trying to stop time
Explain I’m genuinely fascinated
Gatsby was a cool cat! He should've made peace and embraced his past catapulting him into a class of his own - purity of heart, humility, and graciousness!
Victor Oaxaca then there wouldn't have been a book.
A class of his own... love it.
This is so true. The concept of "distorted grief reaction" is SPOT ON.
My personal interpretation of the character Daisy is that she was a victim of being a woman of her time . She had no choice really, and Jay did pressure her like Tom did , but in a different way. I believe if Jay never left, she would have left her lavish life and went off with him. And that's why she was so upset with his letter. In the end , if she left Tom. She would never see her child again. I wish he wrote a book in her perspective. Its a very deep story, but I believe there is certainly more to Daisy then a wealthy beauty who was selfish and aloof .
I do wonder if the flashback in the film of her Daisy reading the letter was also another idealization of what Daisy wanted to do but couldn’t because of the class she was in and the reputation she had to uphold. I think maybe for a plot second Daisy wanted to run away but then reality eventually sunk in.
I am SO glad I've finally read this book! I caught the last 20 minutes of the movie and was hooked. I bought a copy of the book, and I've read and re-read it ever since. As with most really good stories, you can re-read it and find something new to ponder upon. I hope to see this movie in it's entirety soon.
Its a good movie :)
Cathy Audette is it a real story ?
בפןם אןו no. the great gatsby is a work of fiction.
It is said that every single word in that book is done with the sole purpose of being something to ponder. I've read this book countless times and I'm still finding new material.
My takeaway from the book was that, in his heart of hearts, Jay Gatsby was a good man. I think Nick saw him for who he was and came to care for him as a result. Just my opinion
Nick came to the conclusion that Gatsby was a good person but because of his inability to let go of the past he exccavated a hole that was covered long ago and it led to his unfortunate demise.
To be completely honest, it would appear to me that most people have forgotten what he is psychoanalyzing - Jay Gatsby. His analysis of the character himself is not only thorough but is also motivated by a multitude of perspectives. Many people responding to this video seem mistakenly caught up on whether or not the movie was an accurate rendition of the novel. I suggest appreciating the video's analytic angle and purpose, or simply move on to the next video :)
5/5 btw Emory!
Gatsby Projected his Anima onto daisy (concept by Carl Jung). I think His feeling of shame not only come from being poor in childhood but also from dysfunctional family dynamics during his upbringing, which we know nothing about from the novel but is pretty obvious for anyone who knows basics of psychology. When a person is so overwhelmed by love for someone else who doesnt love them back it is not love, but a projection of anima, he loves the idea of her. Gatsby most likely had "an unreachable" mother who cound not give love and acknowledgment to her child, this trauma comes deep from his childhood and this is what humans do, Gatsby is unconsciously recreating the trauma from his childhood in order to find a resolution but he never can do it he can never change the past and change his childhood and get acknowledgment from his mother because daisy is not her and harm has already been done. This is also how clocks make sense, He is constantly trying to get back to the time where this cycle started (where trauma happened) but he can never articulate all this in his mind, he doesn't understand that he doesnt love Daisy he is just consumed by something that she reminds him. Gatsby still craves acceptance and acknowledgement of himself from his mom, and is wounded to his very essence.
You are probably on to something. The book only mentions his father and never his mother so his relationship with her was likely either non-existent or otherwise unfulfilling.
Projection of anima. . . My mother passed away when I was 14. This may explains why I find Gatsby so relatable.
I've recently rediscovered my love for this book and hearing this analysis takes me right back to Grade 11 AP English prep. We talked A LOT about Gatsby's romantic lens and the significance of eyes and "being seen". 6 years later, I still have so much pity for Gatsby and can relate in that it's very difficult to let go of the past - and nothing, not even money or hope can get it back. It truly breaks my heart that he's not able to let go, and it breaks my heart further that Daisy was too selfish to not put an end to his desire to be with her.
Yes I always thought it was cruel of daisy to not tell him no so he'll stop wishing. As I read the book, within the first few chapters I didn't have a good impression of Daisy
I think it can be summed up in the expression 'There is only one thing worse than not reaching your dreams and that is reaching them'
acechadwick So dark.
i like reaching goals.....
Someone explain this.
I actually really enjoyed that analysis and finally realized why I’ve always related to that movie so much. I can relate to gatsby on such a high level
What does a green light mean? It means go. Red is stop, the opposite of green.
it represents daisy
it represents his neverending hope that he will be able to achieve his dream (daisy)
i believe it is also jealousy
Kuiella Taldama Green is the color of envy he had envy for daisy.
+Kuiella Taldama green is the color of hope
Wow this is the best analysis I've ever seen of Jay Gatsby himself...absolute wonderful job in breaking him down Jared...wonderful to listen to!
id like to add something that is the central motive behind the movie. high sensitivity. gatsby is the first account of high sensitivity in literature that ive come across. i discovered elaine aron a few years ago and its greatly helped me in my life. gatsbys visions of the future, his inner strength are birn from this. and i read this film as the possibilities of highly sensitives.
"he was like one of those machines that could register earthquakes from miles away." carraway at the beginning of the movie
Shoot--I knew that quote was in there! I couldn't find it because I was looking toward the middle of the book.
Yes, sensitivity was a theme that, from what little looking around I've done, seems to have been largely overlooked (ironic, eh?). It's made me wonder whether either Gatsby or Daisy were truly as shallow as people commonly believe. Judgement is a theme of the book too--prejudice--right from page one.
With all that in mind, I wonder if Gatsby saw something else in Daisy, something beyond the money that everyone seems to believe is all that drew him to her. But even then, it appears that in the end her fear, of leaving her broken, yet stable, life with Tom, overpowered her. She might have been worth it, except that right at the end, when she had the chance to escape and find real love and happiness, she chose the comfort of that familiar life.
Alas, so far as I know Fitzgerald never elaborated, so it seems we'll never know. Indeed, I wonder if even he knew.
@@iconian1387 i think he didnt. the literary types, as i see it - put things into lots of words that they havent gotten to the bottom of.
otherwise elaine aron wouldnt have had to do her research a few years back. ;)
Wow. Wow. Now I understand why I relate so much with Gatsby. Thank you :)
I find the looping of the theme song in the background very distracting
calvin0416ny
Young and Beautiful was perfect
I love the song but repeating over and over a very short piece of it is driving me nuts!
calvin0416ny i hadn’t thought about it until you mentioned it 😂😂😂
I found it rather tracting.
Thank you professor. Excellent psychoanalysis of Jay Gatsby.
I find it very intriguing that Gastby fall in love with the one woman he could never have. The prestige of daisy and her wealth would make a man of Gastby current status at the time lose all hope but not him. It is almost as if she was more of a goal or an obsession to conquer for him (similar to how he had to over come poverty). Was it really love or yet another escape for Gastby to feel like he had truly "made it". This of course correlates to the main point stated in the video... Gastby wanted to have everything he never had.
I really relate to Jay, even more smo now than I did when the movie first came out because of certain events that happened in my life
On top of that, I come from a similar background as he does
I grew up in this super tiny village in this isolated community that kept me from being brave enough to go out into the world something which I only did at 23.
Its one of the greatest novels ive read. Its so interesting to see Gatsbys inner conflict between the presence and the past
Still agree today
She doesn't love anyone, she doesn't know what love means she just drifts through life being taken care of.
Exactly a bimbo as well
I listen to the audiobook format of this story about once a year. Not only is it a great character study, but it is some of the most beautiful, concisely written prose and imagery you will ever read. A rather short story. But definitely a great American novel, if not the definitive one.
Good analysis of the tragedy that unfolds to Gatsby. Thank you.
Finally an intelligent review of this work of literature. Thanks.
they didn't have internet back them. That's where all the tragedy started from.
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This channel is amazing. Fine editing and video
Wow really excellent review and analysis of gatsbys character loved this !
"it's almost as if he wants time to stop back to that time when he was 17"...first of all that doesn't make a shred of sense and second Gatsby was 27 when he met Daisy.
Right... Daisy would've been 18 in 1917 when they met. Interesting video otherwise.
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He created the persona of Jay Gatsby at the age of 17. He met Daisy in his 20s. He doesn't want to return to being 17. He wants to "repeat the past". The past being, to pick up with he and Daisy left off before he left for the war.
I would love to see y'all psychoanalyze more literary figures! I'd really like to see y'all explore Holden Caulfield, Lady Macbeth, Sally Bowles, Franny and Zooey Glass, Jake Barnes and Brett Ashley, and so many others.
This was so educative! Thank you!
Very wonderful and interesting analysis! I truly enjoyed watching.
Everybody wants to be like Gatsby, but truly few are like him.
He had come so far, and came so close.
The majority of people just wish for their dream without doing much to get near it. That's the biggest difference
In one way Daisy is tragic, she isn't happy in her marriage, she seems not too be too close with her little girl BUT she hasn't the guts to leave a bad marriage ratter J.G. is pat of the package or not. I don't think Daisy knows how to be happy but she knows how to do what she is told or except to do. Sure she was ALLOWED to date J.G. for a short time but ratter she LOVED him or not was not inportent enough to DISOBAY what was excepted of her - marry Money
Too true
+Elizabeth Markham She ain't loyal
I agree, also she chose Tom rather than Gatsby because Daisy and were born into the same social strata. Thats why after all they had an understanding for each other, they were the "careless People". Gatsby however was the son of poor lower class People and no matter how much money he gained he would Never be able to be one of them.
There's something I've wondered: what if Gatsby had lived?
If the story had gone on longer, had he not been conveniently shot and removed from the picture, might it have been different? It doesn't seem so, certainly not at first glance anyway. Gatsby waited for Daisy to call, hoped she would come and join him, leaving Tom. She did not. But with Gatsby's indefatigable spirit, might he have somehow convinced her, down the road? She had already spent some time around him. Had he tried harder, stretched his arms further, and continued to beat against the current, might he have eventually won her over? And, perhaps more importantly: was she really ever worth winning over?
Please, please, please, please... Learn how to write, would you?
Thank you! You are smart with a lot of detailed words! Well when I first watched the movie I didn't really pay attention to stuff like that but wow that's amazing no wonder why the book is boring but you have to understand it well enough to understand the boring parts of the book that is the main idea of just everything. I'm mind blown I always wanted to know why Gatsby honestly loved Daisy 😊😯🌹
That analysis at the end, about extended desires unfulfilled causing you to get stuck in the present, trying to recapture the past and not moving forward because, was exact.
"...guilt is the feeling people feel when they feel..." 2:07
he's in his feelings
...when they feel they've done something wrong
And supposedly he has a Doctorate degree😂
When my two loves, Literature and Psychology come together 😍👌🏻
Thank You, I loved this
Amazing, thank you!
Could you do an analysis on Don Draper of Mad men? He seems like a 60s version of Gatsby per my observations. Would love to hear your take on him.
I always had the impression that Gatsby wasn’t meant to be an actual complex human being, he was meant to be a representation of the sad life we’ll live if we pursue the American Dream. So it feels weird to psychoanalyze him as if he was an ordinary complex person when he’s nothing but a symbol
I really wanted to know the interpretation of the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg and I also found out about the clock that he knocked off... this was informative. Insightful. It's amusing to see how many people interpret the same book in their own ways.
why are there only a few psychoanalysis by this guy? Emory University needs to promote this guy!!!
Wow. They just analyzed every politician and celebrity ever
Great critique of the vapidness of the WASP class at the time, which can now be applied to the upper class as a whole. In a time when WASPs were abandoning Christianity for Darwinism and hedonism. Gatsby was foolish to want to be like these people. They sucked him dry as they suck many middle class folks dry who try to climb to their social caste. In the end it was his beloved Midwestern peasant father, likely a simple God-fearing man who knew very little about the sort of world his son was caught up in, who was there for his son all along. So sad.
I love Gatsby. Also I love how Young and beautiful is playing in the background of this video ❤️
My high school literature's reading, one of the best.
Or he knocks the clock over cause he's a nervous wreck and it shows how much tension there is.
Idk the clock and themes about time could hold legit meaning
I watched the movie before reading the book. After reading the book, I was bothered that Gatsby broke the clock in the movie. In fact, my interpretation of that entire scene was likely different from many people's. In the book, Gatsby bumped his head against the clock, but before it could fall over and smash on the floor he managed to stop it, with quick thinking and fast reflexes: "the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his
head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers, and set
it back in place."
I guess Luhrmann didn't see it the same way, but I saw it as Fitzgerald trying to say: here's Gatsby, NEARLY knocking over this clock and making a fool of himself, but catching it before that could happen. And it's actually a microcosm for the entire scene: Nick leads Daisy into the room, where Gatsby is waiting--only, on arrival, Gatsby is nowhere to be found. "Oh, you must love me," Daisy says to Nick, or something to that effect, upon seeing all the flowers waiting for her. What is Gatsby trying to do--embarrassing Nick like that!? What scheme is he trying to pull--indeed, people have been saying all along there's something shifty about the guy--maybe that's what he's getting to right now.
But no, I don't think he was trying to be manipulative--but Gatsby NEARLY chickened out. He hadn't seen Daisy in five long years. After all that time he's just about to see her again--his dream is about to be fulfilled, or at least the beginning of his dream. And he gets school-boy jitters, nervous and scared and excited all at once.
But then, Gatsby manages to make the save, manages to find the courage in himself to go to the front door and try again. He finds the courage to speak to Daisy; and then he saves the clock too, from falling on the floor and smashing to pieces, just as any hope of being with Daisy again would have been smashed to pieces, had he not the courage to speak with her.
And all of this continues right in line with Gatsby's character: he is not incompetent, and he is not attempting to swindle or backstab anyone, and he has accomplished some amazing, if seeming unbelievable, things. And sometimes he faces his own personal demons, with no one there that recognizes what has happened--fighting his own internal conflicts without anyone understanding. Somehow he is able to take seemingly hopeless situations, and come out on top.
Until, of course, his fated end.
This is my interpretation anyway.
Katey Darling Both interpretations are simultaneously true. That's what a good author does. They can have an action such as this convey two separate meanings.
One thing is that when he met Daisy, he was 27-28, not 17. In the movie he says "I'm only 32 I might still be a great man know that I once lost Daisy." And that they haven't met in nearly 5 years. Am I missing something?
This was exactly like the premise of my high school essay. The past, Gatsby trying to get back his perfect Daisy. Cool!!!! I got a whole new meaning of that idea.
The fact the beginning of young and beautiful is playing on loop is buggy the hell out of me, just play the whole song please. My brain is melting.
Same gatsby same. If I could built a time machine and go back to see him once more and his purest self I would in a heart beat just to recapture the moment and direct it towards a new ending one with him and me. Though in reality people change and what's left of them is just the memories of what once was.
This is my favorite movie and is the reason why I believe in love.
She left me in 2014, and I still feel like it was yesterday. I saw a picture of her on facebook the other day and it felt like a knife twisting in my heart. I miss you Niki!
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@@thenightporter ?? I’m pathetic am I not?
This was recommended to me the day after my English class wrapped up our unit on The Great Gatsby. A little late there, UA-cam.
Gatsby wasn't 17 when he met Daisy, she was. He was in his mid-20s when they met.
i love emory and will hope to be accepted! !!!
We want more!!
The larger point is the setting in the roaring twenties that represented excessive consumption that came to an abrupt end. Gatsby was a metaphor.
Poor thing kept sailing towards that mirage and killed himself, dashed against rocks....
Shame and grief. That hits the nail on the head.
Love is a tragedy simple as that .. many of us can relate to gatsby .. It is so rare for any of us to experience the capacity of love .. It is so beautiful ..
Isaias Diaz what is the capacity of love!?
Found this to be very helpful for a analysis of what drove Gatsby and how much Daisy and his pursuit of her and wealth mattered to him
There would never have been a happy ending for him even if Daisy had chosen to be with him and Fitzgerald hints as much in the book. The phone call Nick received after Gatsby death about the guy when arrested for pushing fake bonds says as much, Gatsby would have faced possible arrest for this plus the hit and run , jailtime, financial ruin and Daisy leaving him beckoned and he would have had a psychotic breakdown and possibly killed himself. Fitzgerald gave him a better more possible noble ending
Please do James Bond!! The recent James Bond
Thank you that would be awesome!
Great analysis. I'd like to do a fan project story where Jay returns to life a year after his death and this helps.
Really great analysis
Very interesting and as a result, very good....except for the incessant, subtle looping of the movie theme in the background. This ruined it for me.
I thought it was a necessary and incredible addition
The theme is everything...
KinoWriting Into the Past
I love the song, but they shouldn't have looped the same part over and over. I know they were just trying to get the part without singing, but they could've just chosen some songs from the score, that are just instrumental variations of Young and Beautiful.
Story of my life, for the most part
this is a great review
Say what you will about the Redford/Farrow version, but the final scene with the father is quite moving. The actor reminded me of some distant relative.
I could never think about Gatsby as a bad guy. Just character with such a tragical life.
Gatsby wanted to use the green light as a time machine
This is the best explanation of the green light!
One of the most glamorous novels in American literature and this video was still managed to be dull and uncharming...
A more technical and unknown aspect consists in externalizing every fear and obscure aspect of the subconscious life to surface in situations allowing even the use of drugs. How the situations are controlled and how are they manage in unexpected or surprising situations describes the evolution of the subject.
Wait somebody clear this up
Gatsby meets Daisy at 17, they fall in love. At some point, he tells Nick that he's 32 and it's known that he hasn't seen Daisy in 5 years. That means he left Daisy at 27, which would also mean that they dated for 10 years because after the first time they met, he fell in love. If they were in love for 10 years, though, why didn't he pop the question?
Or did the guy just mean to say 27?
It means just that he had not seen her in 5 years. I had to find out that she married ext... he spent a decade and a fantasy but not that different than many guys but he just happen to have a lot of money.
Pretty sure Jay was 27. The video's wrong.
Think he meant 27