The Great Gatsby is a story about how a love for someone or something can take a wrong turn and can become an obsession for the wrong things. In the novel the character Gatsby is infatuated by a girl named Daisy. He is so obsessed with her that he changes his lifestyle completely to meet her needs. He goes from a poor army man to a rich, well-known man, all the while striving for someone that he cannot have. Gatsby's dream is to be w

Gatsby and Daisy had a few more times together before Daisy pretty much told Gatsby that it wouldn't work. Gatsby had the dream and he thought that if he could put his all into it than he could achieve it. One day Nick flat out told Gatsby that "They're a rotten crowd and You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." (pg.154 Fitzgerald) I interpreted this to mean that Nick knew that Gatsby was a good person and the he was just mixed in this crown for the wrong reasons. Nick knew of Gatsby's love for Daisy he also knew that Gatsby was better than that and he should not mess with her and her ways.

Gatsby had the nicest parties, the biggest house, the best cars, summed up it was the dream life. In Zimmermann's article she quoted Thomas Jefferson when he said that people "are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Gatsby was obviously trying to enjoy all of the things listed ab

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