How Does It Lead To Gatsby's Downfall

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The Great Gatsby Gatsby's relationship with his past creates emotion turmoil over his obsession with his lost love. This conflict eventually evolves throughout The Great Gatsby, leading to the downfall of Jay Gatsby, and creating a theme of how past dreams and aspirations of an faded past to can consume oneself. What sort of problems plague Gatsby's pass so much that it lead him to his eventual demise? In short: Daisy Buchanan. As a young man, Gatsby was infatuated by Daisy, but his serving in the army called him to war. While he was gone, Tom Buchanan, a rich businessman from Chicago, swept Daisy away. Gatsby returned only to find out the two are now married and live in the rich Long Island suburbs. This is where Gatsby's dream begins to