Gatsby’s downfall suggests that equal opportunities to achieve success in our lives don’t exist, people take advantage of far too many things that it is ruined for others. For example, Daisy took advantage of Gatsby and Tom. Daisy seemed to only want the person with the most money, but that wasn’t exactly true.
“Your wife doesn’t love you. She’s never loved you. She loves me. She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart, she never loved anyone except me! “I won’t stand this!” cried Daisy. “Oh, please let’s get out.” Basically, what we have just been informed is that Daisy only married Tom because he had money at the time, even though she didn’t actually love him, and
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In the article “affluent”, it talked about how this teenager, Ethan Couch, was charged with manslaughter after hitting 4 people with his car and killing them while drunk driving. Later, his “parents admitted that he had access to drugs and alcohol at a young age, drove without a license, and spent a lot of time unsupervised at his second home.” I have observed that the more you take advantage of someone or something the less effective it is for everyone else. In other words, when Couch decided to drink and drive he also decided to put other people’s lives on the line and ruin all of their chances to succeed in life. Couch’s lousy choice ended up killing 4 innocent people who had great potential to succeed in life.
Gatsby’s downfall suggests that equal opportunities to achieve success in life don’t really exist, people take advantage of far too many things that it begins to ruin it for many people in the long run. Hopefully we have realized that it is always more beneficial to be less selfish and more selfless so that we all can have the lives that we were created to have without any lousy fool ruining it for us. Daisy may have loved Tom for his money, but she also loved him for his