Flaws In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is one tragic novel to read, The novel takes place in 1920’s New York in America with its cast of Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan’s, Daisy Buchanan. Each character in the novel has some flaws to them that we learn to see while reading throughout the book, we’re going to see how each character has to deal with their flaws and either keep going on to see how much worse it can become.

Starting with Mr. Gatsby, When introduced to Gatsby, was told that he has this dream which is to get the attention of Daisy also with her love as well. The author ( Fitzgerald) took a turn and started to poetry Gatsby as this man that would chase Daisy, always pursuing her and praising her as well. Later on we’ve come to find out that Gatsby is just

Story takes place in the 1920’s and at the time this whole propaganda “The American Dream” where if you work hard enough you can achieve anything. That can be your ideal home, car, lifestyle and so forth. But in the great Gatsby it's explored through the characters and what their needs are. The one example the author (Fitzgerald) portrays this was in the Gatsby section were his dream was to pursue wanting Daisy's love and attention to himself but realized that Daisy was more in Tom Buchanan's that's one of the ways “The American Dream” failed in the story. Another example is in Daisy Buchanan's ‘American Dream’ she wanted two things from two different people, She had a past relationship with Jay Gatsby and wanted to continue her relationship but was changed overtime due to Gatsby going into war, Cause of this another thing Daisy wanted was wealthy living and very expensive materialistic things but if she wanted that she had to cut off what she had with Gatsby. (In page #76) She had to marry Tom Buchanan in order to get all those wealthy goods she dreamed about. This is upsetting because she had to let go of something so pure and good relationship with Gatsby just for her to have all the wealth she wants but had to be with Tom and throughout the book the wealthy rich lifestyle just made her forget about the relationship with