Jay Gatsby Daisy's Relationship

“Meyer Wolfsheim? No, he’s a gambler.” Gatsby hesitated, then added coolly: “He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919,” (Fitzgerald). Jay Gatsby is a wealthy man who lives on the fictional island of West Egg just outside of New York City. He throws extravagant parties, but nobody really knows what he does for a living or how he became wealthy. The other main character, Nick Carraway, is a young man who recently moved to West Egg to become involved in the bond businesses and create a new life for himself. He becomes friends with Gatsby because he is his neighbor. Through his friendship with Gatsby, Nick realizes that there is a lot more to Gatsby than what is seen on the surface. In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald shows that

Daisy and Gatsby had a relationship before he was sent off to war and now he wants to be with her again, but she has a husband.

" He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: " I never loved you. "

" And she doesn't understand, " he said. " She used to be able to understand. We'd sit for hours-"

He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers.

"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 wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his

Nick describes the scene that he witnessed shortly after he moved to West Egg, “There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and women came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars,” (Fitzgerald). As the book goes on and Nick becomes Gatsby’s friend he learns that most people just come to Gatsby’s parties even though they were not even invited. “I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests that had actually been invited. People were not invited- they went there,” (Fitzgerald). This shows that Gatsby never had any real friends or relationships with people. It seems like people used Gatsby for fame or entertainment without ever really caring about him as a person. Another example is when Gatsby is shot and killed by a character by the name of Wilson. “The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn't any use. Nobody came. About five o'clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick drizzle beside the gate,” (Fitzgerald). It is sad to think that roughly only two people came to Jay Gatsby’s funeral, his father and Nick. Nick tried to persuade Gatsby’s good friend, Meyer Wolfsheim, to come but he