Illusions in the Great Gatsby Fitzgerald implicates the idea of ignorance is bliss. He helps to show this idea by quoting in the preface, “…the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world so that you don’t care weather things are true or false…” Gatsby has an ever-lasting love for Daisy. While Gatsby is having this obsession over Daisy, he is content with his life until he losses the illusion that …showed first 75 words of 314 total…

…showed last 75 words of 314 total…out casts. In both cases, Gatsby, Tom and Daisy are happy until their illusion comes crashing down on them, revealing the horrors of reality. Even after all the parties Gatsby has thrown, nobody comes to his funeral. The members of high society have realized the illusion that he has created around himself. I feel this novel moral is, live in the present, don’t dwell on the past. Bibliography "The Grate Gatsby". F. Scott Fitzgerald