The Archetype of the House in the Great Gatsby

Abstract

Human imagination is involved in lights and shadows, in presences and absences, in doubt and certainty — man carries on the mystery to be solved: that of imagination in continuous labor, through the ages, exciting, in uninterrupted activity, the curiosity of men, avid in knowing and in revealing themselves. From the great many books addressing the study of imagination, come many doubtful assertions and uncertain negatives; nevertheless, there are some points of consensus. One of them is the impossibility of establishing rigid boundaries between reason and imagination, which does not mean to assert equality between what is rational and what is imaginary. It can be said that integration exists and, sometimes, that there is antecedent evidence of what is imaginary with its archetypal, symbolic and mythic elements.