In the Great Gatsby, Gatsby tries to fake this rich wealthy lifestyle just to get with the love of his life. For example, growing up in rural South Dakota in a poor family, James Gatz strived to improve his lifestyle. For in order for James to start a new life as a …show more content…
Tom is cheating around with Myrtle while he’s married to Daisy. Tom is such an idiot to be messing around with Myrtle and he has a beautiful wife at home. Daisy know about Tom cheating she just don’t say anything about it. Myrtle is messing around with Tom and she’s married to George Wilson. Myrtle is just messing around with Tom is to become rich herself. George doesn’t even notice anything about the way Myrtle acts. Daisy is messing with Gatsby and she’s married to Tom. Daisy have feelings for Gatsby all over again after 5 years of being away from each other. Tom has a gut feeling that they’re messing around. All of this love cycle going around has karma on the …show more content…
Over the years he creates this idea of her, which makes her out to be almost perfect for him. He buys this excessively large house that can be seen from Daisy’s house across the bay. There is a green light that shines at the end of the dock of Daisy’s house. This light symbolizes the hopes and dreams for the future of Jay. Later on the same light is referenced by Nick to symbolize how the light looks to be rising out of the ocean and must have looked to settlers of the new nation. “Jay Gatsby pursues Daisy knowing that her sense of happiness and good life depends on money and property” (Callahan 149). He asks his neighbor Nick to do him the favor of asking Daisy over for tea, so they could finally met again. Because it has been a long time since Gatsby and Daisy have seen each other, things were uncomfortable at first. After Nick has left them alone for thirty minutes he returned and it had seemed as if no time had passed between them. “[Gatsby] aspires to the good life as though it were a thing of the spirit while the culture can afford him the means for a life of material achievement – a material woman or a woman corrupted by materialism” (Aldridge 59). One of the bystanders recognized the car as being yellow, the same as Gatsby’s, and Tom tells his mistress’s husband that Gatsby was the one who ran her over. Gatsby is later found shot dead in his pool. Daisy and Tom had left town and