In the book “The Great Gatsby” the main character Nick Carraway moves to New York City after being educated at Yale and fighting in World War I, to learn the bond business. After moving to West Egg, a fictional area of Long Island that is home to the newly rich, Nick quickly befriends his next-door neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Gatsby is the embodiment of the “American Dream”, but in reality, he is just the opposite. Mr. Gatsby is the epitome of American Dream Failure. In this book, it starts out with Gatsby already supposedly achieving greatness, then it goes to other perspectives on how they desire to obtain the american dream. For example there is Wilson and Daisy. At the end of the book, after the death of Gatsby, it shows how Gatsby aspired to
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In various unrevealed capacities he had come in contact with such people, but always with indiscernible barbed wire between. He found her excitingly desirable.” (Fitzgerald, 148) This shows how much Gastby actually liked Daisy. She was the first that made Gatsby feel in a different way then all of the other girls he had met. Gatsby purchased nice things for her and told her how much he loved him, but she didn’t like him as much as he thought she did. Daisy and Gatsby 's’ relationship was just like the “green light” that Gatsby saw while spending time with …show more content…
Myrtle was another character that had an affair with Tom and she wanted to be like Daisy and have all these expensive gifts and have the reality that she was rich. This is shown by the quote “The apartment was on the top floor — a small living-room, a small dining-room, a small bedroom, and a bath. The living-room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it, so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles.” (Fitzgerald, 29) The apartment for Myrtle and Tom is extremely too small for the big expensive things that are placed in it, Myrtle is the designer of the apartment therefore putting all of these expensive “rich people” furniture and decorations in the small “poor people” apartment gives her the imagination that she is rich and has tons of money, but in all reality, Tom is the rich one and she is trying to achieve the dream of being rich, but she only can’t because failed to achieve greatness. Towards the end of the book, Daisy runs over Myrtle with Gatsby’s car, never being able to fulfill the thought of the american
In various unrevealed capacities he had come in contact with such people, but always with indiscernible barbed wire between. He found her excitingly desirable.” (Fitzgerald, 148) This shows how much Gastby actually liked Daisy. She was the first that made Gatsby feel in a different way then all of the other girls he had met. Gatsby purchased nice things for her and told her how much he loved him, but she didn’t like him as much as he thought she did. Daisy and Gatsby 's’ relationship was just like the “green light” that Gatsby saw while spending time with …show more content…
Myrtle was another character that had an affair with Tom and she wanted to be like Daisy and have all these expensive gifts and have the reality that she was rich. This is shown by the quote “The apartment was on the top floor — a small living-room, a small dining-room, a small bedroom, and a bath. The living-room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it, so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles.” (Fitzgerald, 29) The apartment for Myrtle and Tom is extremely too small for the big expensive things that are placed in it, Myrtle is the designer of the apartment therefore putting all of these expensive “rich people” furniture and decorations in the small “poor people” apartment gives her the imagination that she is rich and has tons of money, but in all reality, Tom is the rich one and she is trying to achieve the dream of being rich, but she only can’t because failed to achieve greatness. Towards the end of the book, Daisy runs over Myrtle with Gatsby’s car, never being able to fulfill the thought of the american