It is the roaring twenties, outside of New York City and one man’s ideals are about to lead to his demise. The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scot Fitzgerald is about a man who is desperate to reunite with a love he used to know, but as he gets closer to this goal, his life begins to come crashing down. This man, Jay Gatsby, is engulfed in his ideals, and because of this he believes he can do anything he wants, this leads him to poor decisions that ultimately lead to Gatsby’s downfall.
Due to Gatsby wanting a better life, he tries to improve his financial situation through any means necessary, even if that entails shady business. On the first page of chapter IV, young ladies say, “He’s a bootlegger” (61). The rumors these women are spreading
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After the party with Daisy, Nick tries to tell Gatsby that he can’t repeat this past, Gatsby responds with “Can’t repeat the past?” and “Why of course you can!” (110). Gatsby’s attitude displays how he believes he can do anything, even the impossible like, turning back time. While Gatsby’s can-do attitude has helped him in the past to obtain the lavish life he lives now, it can lead him down a slippery slope if he tries to do the physically impossible. Another example of Gatsby's ideals and his negative application of these ideals is the fact that in trying to obtain the one person he wanted in his life, he completely ignores all others and in a sense lives a very lonely life. During Gatsby’s funeral, Nick observes that “Nobody Came” (174). During Gatsby’s funeral, the sad truth comes out, Gatsby has nobody. The fact that nobody came to his funeral shows that he spent his whole life chasing after one person, and as a result, he never really made any true friends. People used him and they only stayed around due to business connections or because of the lavish parties he would