Negative Effects Of The Great Gatsby

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald, we see a story about the protagonist, Jay Gatsby, who is deeply in love with a woman called Daisy Buchanan. The conflict in this story is due to Daisy’s marriage with someone else, Tom Buchanan, who is her husband already. In this novel there is a direct negative effect on the future of the protagonist with his past. These series of events lead to the demise of the protagonist. The novel, The Great Gatsby, is a story in which Jay Gatsby is deeply in love with a love from his past. His love, Daisy, promises she will wait for him after he comes back from the war. However, things didn't go as planned. Daisy ends up marrying a Tom Buchanan who is wealthy. One of the reasons Daisy didn't marry Gatsby since the start was because Jay Gatsby was not wealthy; therefore, he didn't have Daisy’ parents approval. Just from this we can tell that Daisy is influenced on her decision by Tom’s financial security. By the time Gatsby returned from war he found out; furthermore, he became obsessed

Gatsby was so stuck in his past that he wouldn't change Daisy over anything. After a series of events, he got the attention of Daisy; however, this wasn't enough to win her love completely. Although he did anything for Daisy, she was more interested in Tom and Gatsby wasn't able to change her mind. Tom had a lover named Myrtle. One night, by accident, Gatsby and Daisy ran over Myrtle. Myrtle’s husband ,George Wilson, was in shock and Tom used this to his advantage to blame Gatsby for murdering her. In reality, Daisy was the one who was driving when Myrtle was run over. However, Tom detested Gatsby and blamed him for it. Wilson believed that Gatsby, whom supposedly ran Myrtle over, was her lover. Consequently, he wanted to have revenge on him. Before we knew it, Wilson went to Gatsby’s house and murdered him. This was the the demise of The Great