Idealism In The Great Gatsby

James Gatz is the main character that falls in love early in the novel to a beautiful woman named Daisy Buchanan. Not only does Daisy fall in love with James, too, but she tells him she’ll wait for him after he gets out of the army. Later after he’d gotten out of the army, he found out that she’d married a wealthy man and had a child. That’s when his life changed and he changed himself by becoming a whole different man. James Gatz later became known as Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald, the author, portrays Gatsby’s character through idealism from the beginning to the end of the novel with reality.
Growing up on a poor farm in Minnesota, he didn’t have very much money and farmers would never end up with the money they wanted. Living on a farm, despising …show more content…
After trying to win back Daisy, there was still that someone in the way - Tom. When Gatsby confronts Tom, Daisy admits to Tom that she never really loved him and that she loves Gatsby. That’s when Tom tells her that he had someone investigate him and spills the beans on how Gatsby made all of his money on organized crime and selling illegal liquor. Daisy then says that it wasn’t really true that she didn’t love Tom and, once again, Gatsby has nothing. Money can’t buy you happiness, it can only buy you the objects to make you temporarily happy. Even though Gatsby got his heart broken that night with Tom and Daisy, he still watched her to make sure he doesn’t hurt her in any way. Gatsby still can’t believe he lost her again, but realizes this time that Daisy isn’t going to leave Tom. Nobody else knows, but Gatsby also covers for her because while Daisy was driving home in his car, she accidently hit Myrtle Wilson, Tom’s lover. While day-dreaming in his pool one afternoon, Gatsby was shot by Myrtle’s husband, George Wilson. After Gatsby’s death, the only people that came to his funeral are Nick Carraway, the narrator of the novel, and Gatsby’s father, who was proud of what he’d