Examples Of Failure In The Great Gatsby

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main character Jay Gatsby was a very wealthy man. He did not always have this wealth, and it was because of a woman named Daisy Buchanan that he had accumulated his fortune. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses his character Gatsby to communicate a message about Gatsby’s failure to accomplish his dream. This message is most likely Fitzgerald communicating through Gatsby explaining that people will fail and no matter how hard one tries, they must learn to move on. Gatsby just like everyone else had many failures in his life, but the biggest failure Gatsby had had was losing the love of his life, Daisy, but he did not seem to understand that he needed to move on. Therefore Gatsby tries to win her

They source to which the money came from was not an honest source; Gatsby was doing illegal things to gain wealth. Tom ,Daisy’s husband, had even confronted him about where he received all of his money. "He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That's one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him.” Daisy did not seem to mind where the wealth had came from she was so fascinated with all of Gatsby's luxuries. Once she sees Gatsby’s house she is shocked ,asking, “That huge place there?” she continues on talking about how much she loves it. It is when she goes inside and Gatsby begins to take out his imported shirts, and throw them on the bed showing Nick and Daisy, when “Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.” she says that she is sad because she has never seen such lovely shirts, but perhaps she is crying because she is realizing how marrying Tom was a mistake and she should have married Gatsby so she would not have had to sacrifice her wealth. Yet this scheme to get Daisy to

Nick had caught on to Gatsby’s intentions “It was a strange coincidence," I said. "But it wasn't a coincidence at all." "Why not?” "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay." At this point Gatsby does not care what he has to do he will win over Daisy. Every night Nick would stand outside his house and reach out for a green light across the bay. Nick had noticed “he stretched out his arms toward the dark water… Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light...that might have been the end of a dock.” This green light was at the dock of Daisy's house and Gatsby was reaching out at it as if he could get to Daisy. Yet even having a huge mansion right across the bay from Daisy was anything but creepy, Gatsby still had not accomplished his dream of winning over Daisy. Fitzgerald is more than likely conveying the fact that Gatsby’s strong attitude and perseverance might not always be a good