The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel set back into the roaring 1920’s where hopes were high and dreams were possible. The beginning of the novel introduces our narrator Nick Carraway. Who dreams of a more exciting life outside of the midwest. He decides to head east. He arrives in East egg the land of the newly found rich. Where he meets his neighbor, an aloof man of the name Jay Gatsby. With the meeting of his neighbor followed many events in which impacted the characters of this novel, Nick Carraway being the most affected, in fact it changed his views not only of people, of the world, but also of long sought out American Dream.
Nick Carraway is forced to change his views of people as the events move the story along. For example, his first opinion of Daisy was more of a sanguine outlook, “...- then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too…” (Fitzgerald, 8). However, it’s seen by the end of the novel he couldn’t stand to think of her. “I’d be damned if I go in; I’d had enough of all for them for one day…” (Fitzgerald, 142). His views of Daisy weren’t the only ones to change his views
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“It passed, and he began to talk excitedly to daisy, denying everything, defending his name against accusations that had not been made. But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and the only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, despairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.” (Fitzgerald, 134). It was in this instant that he knew the dream was dead. For if it couldn’t happen for Gatsby, a man who built himself up from nothing, went into the army, came back penniless and still tried for the girl, if it couldn’t happen for him then it couldn’t happen for