Examples Of Everything In The Great Gatsby

Money Isn’t Everything The Roaring 20’s, was an era filled with lavish parties, fancy cars, and big houses. The 1920s was a prosperous time for many, there were new goods being produced, and more time for a life outside of work. F Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” was written and takes place during this time, highlighting the American dream, of having wealth and power. A main character that Fitzgerlad focuses on in the novel is Jay Gatsby. Gatsby embodies the American Dream by having self-built wealth, and strength but not everything is as great for Gatsby as it may seem, there is one thing that he strives for but can’t seem to get, Daisy Buchanan. In the tragic novel “The Great Gatsby” Jay Gatsby uses his relationship with Nick Carroway

Firstly, throughout the course of the tragic novel Jay Gatsby continuously uses his relationship with Nick Carraway for his own self-benefit. At the beginning of the novel, Gatsby befriends his neighbor, Nick, after he finds out that he is the cousin of Daisy Buchanan with the hopes that if he impresses Nick enough he will mention the name to her. Throughout the course of the novel Gatsby and Nick grow fonder of each other but Gatsby takes advantage of their relationship for his own self-gain to try and re-enter the life of Nick’s cousin Daisy. After Gatsby and Nick spend a day in New York together he shares with Nick that Jordan Baker (Nick's girlfriend) has something to tell him when they see each other later and she shares with Nick that Gatsby wants to ask something of Nick. She tells him, “‘He wants to know,’ continued Jordan,’ If you will invite Daisy over to your house some afternoon and then let him come

Gatsby and Daisy have a long history together and were a couple before WW1. Gatsby loved not only Daisy as a person but was drawn to her because she represented the perfect image that he had longed for since being a poor teen from a farming family in North Dakota. Daisy was a sophisticated socialite, with wealth which came with power. But when Gatsby had to go overseas to fight and Daisy being a prominent social figure she was facing pressure to get married and start a family forcing her to have to leave the idea of her and Gatsby getting back together in the past. After she allowed herself to start looking for a future spouse she quickly met Tom Buchanan, a wealthy man, who became her future husband. With Tom, Daisy had built an even more lavish lifestyle where she lived in a big house and they had a daughter together showing that she had built a life without Gatsby. When Gatsby came back from the War he went back to Lousiville where Daisy had lived, to only find out that she and Tom were away on their honeymoon. But throughout the years Gatsby never lost hope that he and Daisy would be back together someday, and he let this desire guide many of his actions. A great illustration of this is when Jordan Baker tells Nick, ”’ Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay”’ (Fitzgerald 78). Gatsby could have chosen to live anywhere in the