The Great Gatsby Relationship Analysis

F. Scott Fitzgerald grew up in the dawn of the twentieth century in a middle-class household. After attending a boarding school in New Jersey, Fitzgerald studied at Princeton University where he befriended campus intellectuals and attempted to join the football team unsuccessfully. After three years at Princeton, he decided to join the army, where he met his future wife, Zelda Sayre, who rejected him at first. In 1925, Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, a story that touched on the subject of the American dream as well as some of his own interpersonal relationships (“F. Scott” 963-964). The Great Gatsby is narrated and told from the eyes of Nick Carraway, a sensible man who had recently moved to New York from the American Midwest to work in the bond business. Shortly …show more content…
Through a series of events, Gatsby and Daisy reconnect and Daisy wants to leave Tom for Gatsby. However, Gatsby gets angry when Daisy says that she loves him too, implying that Daisy loves both Tom and Gatsby, since Daisy is Gatsby’s only love and Gatsby wants Daisy to feel the same way. Gatsby lets Daisy drive home from this encounter, and in her state of anxiety, anger, and panic she hits and kills Tom’s mistress, Myrtle Wilson. Because Gatsby’s car hit Myrtle, rumors start to spread that he killed her, causing Tom to seek revenge against Gatsby. Tom convinces Myrtle’s husband to seek out and kill Gatsby, while Gatsby anxiously waits for Daisy to call him for the first time since their awkward split. The story ends after Gatsby is murdered, with only Nick and Gatsby’s father showing up at his funeral, and Myrtle’s murder being framed on Gatsby. In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, he explores the theme of emptiness in the following ways: through the lack of desire from the characters in the story, through Daisy and Gatsby’s relationship, and also through the symbolism of the valley of