In the novel The Great Gatsby the main character is Jay Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby is a man of great wealth and suspicions. He has lived his life to become someone that was truly that of the upper class. He does this in may ways. We find out that he loves a married woman. Her name is Daisy Buchanan and she is a very wealthy lady also. We find out that Jay has been living his life so that he can acquire Daisy his true love. The only problem is that he does not understand her selfishness, but he only sees her as she was ten years before. This is one of the reasons that he dies.
Mr. Gatsby is a character during the beginning of the play that we do not know much about. There are a lot of rumors about how and where he got his wealth. They also don't know about his past. They talked a lot about who he was and there where a lot of wild guessing going about. "I don't think it's so much that," argued Lucille skeptically; "it's more that he was a German spy during the war." One of the men nodded in confirmation. "I heard that from a man that knew all about him, grew up with him in Germany," he assu
Jay is a man that is so madly in love with this girl he does not see her faults. He is still living on what happened in the past. He does not understand that Daisy has become a total consumer. She does not care about anything but herself. She even thinks her kid is only good for using as a display. She has taken a turn for the worst and Jay does not see this. Nick notices that she will not live up to his dreams and expectations. "AS I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby's face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams-not thought her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. (Page 101) And Nick was right Daisy and Gatsby was an illusion. Daisy was married to Tom and they also had a child together. Gatsby was not able to see this he was so fascinated with what Daisy was and not what she is. This is his downfall and the reason that he dies.
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