idealism/cynicism in the great gatsby

the whole story of jay gatsby and daisy buchanan is centered around idealism because from a realistic perspective, their feelings for each other are not obtainable and cannot easily be established in reality. the whole book is evolved around characters like nick and jordan that seem to dominate the story but truly, it is gatsby's tale. according to the events in the book(the parties, picnics etc.), the situations and circumstances that surround gatsby and his reaction and solution to them suggest that he is an idealist. for instance, he does everything according to how it would have been done in his imaginary utopian such as the case with daisy, the appearance of his house and the kind of people that would be at his lavish parties. he is also a perfectionist according to the instance where he had nick invite daisy for a tea party so that he could reunite with her. he cut nick's grass just so it could resemble the grass he had in mind; maybe the grass would have made things seem more realistic to him. he also invisioned daisy to look and behave in a certain manner according to his dreams and hopes of her. the reason he allows anyone to come to his extravagent parties without an invitation is because he once invesioned daisy being amongst the guests and once he spotted her there, they would reunite somehow. unfortunately, his party-throwing habits proved to be a fiasco in terms of catching daisy's attention because realistically, daisy had too much sophistication and elegance to just barge in peoples' parties and he should have known that. now that there is quite a few examples of gatsby's perspective on life, it can be determined that he perhaps lived his entire life in persuit of his ideal dreams and how he would fulfill them; that is why once he achieved material wealth and prestige, he had no true sense of direction on what to do next other than getting daisy.