Great Gatsby's Life

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The evolution of people seem to only rely on whether you were born with money or worked for it and there was no in between. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story the narrator/ main character Nick Carraway on his journey from Minnesota to the big city of New York. Nick learns the struggle of the people in the valley of ashes to the luxurious life style of the fat cats living on east egg, nick would live on the west side invested in bond business. There was James Gatsby/ Jay Gats with a mansion that would over look Nick’s small house. Nick thought Gatsby 's ' life was fulfilled for more than one life time from him live at sea for years, joining the military, going to oxford university, living in Europe, having huge parties in his …show more content…
A direct quote in between Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy they will say “I did love him once- but I love you too… Even that’s a lie said Tom savagely. She didn’t even know you were alive.”[Fitzgerald32]. This will show how Daisy loved/loves Gatsby but she also loves Tom and because of their social class, love doesn’t matter. Although Daisy and Gatsby had seem to have an abundance of love it didn’t money because no matter what money sticks with money so sadly Daisy stays with Tom and Gatsby is left behind. This shows that the humans in this story will drop things that they may even love for money even if won’t bring them happiness. Nick in the end of the story will proclaim one of the most thought-provoking statements in the entire book directed to Gatsby which will say “I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock… his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it”[fitzgerald180]. Nick basically say is with all of Gatsby’s dreams, hopes, wealth and adventure you would think that he would end up with a happy ending and would have almost a heroes ending a glorious victory over life pushing him around and get the girl(Daisy). Instead he is killed for something he was innocent from. Gatsby’s wealth and skill would …show more content…
They will tell the story of Gatsby’s life before he became he was struggling to make ends meet but he met a man by the name of Dan Cody who would become his role model and where he would go from Jay Gats to James Gatsby. They would live on a boat for years sailing around the world living the life humans could only dream of in the book and real life. Although one fateful day Dan Cody would invite a women by the name of Ella Kaye and Dan Cody would mysteriously die one night. Gatsby was expecting to get some of Dan Cody’s money but instead of that “… it was from Cody that he inherited money- a legacy of twenty five thousand dollars… he never understood the legal device… the millions went intact to Ella Kaye.”[Fitzgerald100]. Gatsby became happy from Dan Cody teaching him how to be like him and liked having a fellow companion that would break the social classes, by Dan Cody being friends with the poor James Gats. When Dan Cody would die the money would bring young Gatsby nothing but sadness and broken dreams. Before Gatsby would meet a his tragic end and be shot for something he didn’t do, Nick would talk about Gatsby’s house then mention “His house never seemed so enormous to me as it did that night when we hunted through the great rooms… a sort of splash upon the keys of a ghostly piano… an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere

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