The Great Gatsby is a classical fiction novel from Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald that tells the story of a man named Gatsby who rose to riches, through some illegal actions, to follow his love for a women that he courted with when he was training to be a officer in Louisville. This women was named Daisy Buchanan, who was married to Tom Buchanan, and Gatsby believed that climbing the ladder from lower class to upper class would give him the wealth to impress Daisy. As the plot takes it’s run, Nick Carraway, a midwestern who is the relative cousin of Daisy, acts as the witness of Gatsby’s relationship with Daisy, and the character takes the role as the narrator throughout the story. I would have to say that it falls that Gatsby is having interactions …show more content…
Antigone was punished and she accepted death. Gatsby did the same with his illegal system of trade, where he got most of his money from, except in his case he was very secretive about his crimes and was never officially punished by the government. His rise in income leads to him meeting Daisy and having an affair, and this relationship continues until he is subsequently killed off as an effect of the strong bond between him and Daisy. When Daisy drove over Myrtle Wilson, Gatsby took the blame so that Daisy wouldn’t become harmed, then he was murdered by George Wilson who then committed suicide. The connection between Antigone and Gatsby is important because both of the characters show that they are passionate to their own ways, and it comes to show that anything can be accomplished if you set your aristocratic morals aside. Antagony set aside the rules of the government in her belief that Polyneices deserved a burial, and Gatsby set aside the rules of the government in discrete fashion in attempt to get more money, which would effectively bring Daisy to be with