Gatsby Is A Tragedy Jay Gatsby, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, emerges as a tragically flawed character. A tragedy is where an essentially good or noble character is brought to destruction as the result of a single personal flaw. Based on how Jay Gatsby is portrayed inThe Great Gatsby, I would considerGatsby's story to be a tragic one, and Gatsby to be a tragic hero. He grew up poor, made something of himself, and spent his life trying to make himself 'worthy' enough for the girl of his dreams, Daisy. In the end, Daisy is the obsession that ruined him. In the novel, Nick tells Gatsby that he can't repeat the past, and Gatsby blatantly refutes that statement. "I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past." "Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course yof can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. "I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before," he said, nodding determinedly. "She'll see." (Fitzgerald 110). …show more content…
However, no matter how much Gatsby tries to believe that Daisy is the same rambunctious girl he met, she isn't the same person. Now, Daisy has been married, and has a daughter with her husband, Tom. She has had experiences without Gatsby, as Gatsby has had experiences without Daisy. He may have waited for Daisy, but Daisy didn't wait for him. She was a woman of high society, and never would have been able to marry him anyways. Gatsby may believe that Daisy is the same, but as the story progresses, he soon learns that she is not who he believes her to