In the fictional novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates a story that takes place during the 1920s, when many people focused on their own American Dream and imagined everything that they could achieve one day. However, for many people these dreams remained fantasies and never actually became realities due to various complications. Although Fitzgerald meticulously describes Jay Gatsby persevering and overcoming many obstacles to achieve his own American Dream, in the end Gatsby ends up just like everyone else with corrupted dreams. It took Gatsby three years to actually carry out his dream, but his entire lifetime to plan it. Gatsby grew up as the son of poor farmers, but he was so determined to become rich and successful someday
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Once Gatsby and Daisy finally began their affair, was when events started to head downhill. Gatsby was very persistent in pleading Daisy to say that she never truly loved Tom. However, she is incapable of executing this task because she genuinely did love Tom at some point and as the conversation progressed, Gatsby’s dream was slowing crumbing right before him. Tom sees this opportunity and immediately jumps at the chance to dominate over Gatsby. By revealing Gatsby’s past and what he does for a living, Tom knows that he won’t lose Daisy to Gatsby from that moment on. Daisy remarkably disapproves and is flooded with indignation towards Gatsby for never telling her the complete truth about his past and being an illegal bootlegger. At that point, Gatsby sees his once perfect American Dream is getting further out of reach and probably won’t ever come true. At the resolution of the novel, Gatsby is in his pool. This rebirth scene represents Gatsby attempting to cleanse himself and start all over once again. However, it is ironic because Gatsby is never able to see what his future holds for him because he is shot and killed by George Wilson, which resulted from a misunderstanding who of killed Myrtle Wilson with the car. Gatsby only stuck around in case he had to protect Daisy, rather than absconding and leaving her to deal with the complex situation by herself. When Gatsby is shot, his American Dream dies along with his soul. While Gatsby is tranquil in death, his thirty years that he dedicated to build up a façade, start a new and improved life as a wealthy man, and win over the woman of his dreams was all thrown
Once Gatsby and Daisy finally began their affair, was when events started to head downhill. Gatsby was very persistent in pleading Daisy to say that she never truly loved Tom. However, she is incapable of executing this task because she genuinely did love Tom at some point and as the conversation progressed, Gatsby’s dream was slowing crumbing right before him. Tom sees this opportunity and immediately jumps at the chance to dominate over Gatsby. By revealing Gatsby’s past and what he does for a living, Tom knows that he won’t lose Daisy to Gatsby from that moment on. Daisy remarkably disapproves and is flooded with indignation towards Gatsby for never telling her the complete truth about his past and being an illegal bootlegger. At that point, Gatsby sees his once perfect American Dream is getting further out of reach and probably won’t ever come true. At the resolution of the novel, Gatsby is in his pool. This rebirth scene represents Gatsby attempting to cleanse himself and start all over once again. However, it is ironic because Gatsby is never able to see what his future holds for him because he is shot and killed by George Wilson, which resulted from a misunderstanding who of killed Myrtle Wilson with the car. Gatsby only stuck around in case he had to protect Daisy, rather than absconding and leaving her to deal with the complex situation by herself. When Gatsby is shot, his American Dream dies along with his soul. While Gatsby is tranquil in death, his thirty years that he dedicated to build up a façade, start a new and improved life as a wealthy man, and win over the woman of his dreams was all thrown