Since Gatsby only focused on getting Daisy back, he did not interact with anybody that did not know Daisy or would not be able to help bring Daisy to him. This caused people to make up stories about him that they thought were true. Also Gatsby never thought about how Daisy would have changed throughout the years, while he has been somewhat frozen in time. He thought that Daisy would be the same girl that he had a relationship with years back. He has a conversation with Nick Carraway that proves it. “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 you 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 …show more content…
In Gatsby’s case, it changed his life for the worse in a way. He was so focused on the one thing that he wanted that he did not even try to live a decent life, he just wanted the money that would prove his richness to Daisy. He never thought of the consequences of his actions along the way, just had the outcome in mind. “ Jay Gatsby, the novel’s main character, believes that if he can move up in society by obtaining as much monetary wealth as possible, then he will be able to achieve the happiness he has always desired....He does not appear interested in working hard to achieve the luxuries of money; he is instead merely interested in obtaining the end results of actually possessing it. This serves to produce a general feeling of despondency throughout the text. By the end of the novel, this despondency leads to despair, and the novel leads to Gatsby’s death (Putnam para. 4)”. Gatsby’s dream was never reachable because he did not adjust his plan according to how Daisy would have changed, he thought she would be the same Daisy she was years