The Great Gatsby Character Analysis

Five years has pass and Gatsby still keeps faith that Daisy and him will be together again one day. If your first love got away would you ever be able to forget about them? Would you still chase after them after many years have gone by? What if they already started a family; would you still go after them? The book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about a man named Jay Gatsby. The narrator was actually his neighbor, Nick Carraway. Gatsby has an infatuation with his past lover Daisy. After he left the Oxford, he moved to Long Island to live near Daisy; he even buys his humongous house for her. Gatsby is known for the grand parties he host. His true purpose for having the parties is to catch Daisy’s attention and have her come over to his house; however she never did go. When he finds out that Nick and Daisy are related he asks Nick if he can have Daisy come over to his house for tea and Gatsby would show up while she is there. This quote summarizes why Gatsby causes his downfall: “[Nick] sat there brooding on the

Green usually means something excellent or your chance to go. For Gatsby, being near Daisy after not seeing her for years is fate. Fitzgerald also uses the phrase “already behind him” to emphasize Gatsby’s naivety about his love for Daisy. Already always means that the situation is final/complete. Therefore, Nick saying that Gatsby’s chance with Daisy is “already behind him” implies that all the actions he takes to try and lure her back to him is useless. This is because within those five years that they did not see each other Daisy finds a new love in her husband, Tom, and is not planning to leave him for Gatsby. Thus, when they are all at that hotel and Gatsby brings up how she loves him; he did not get the response he thinks Daisy is going to say to Tom. Which is that she only loves Gatsby and is leaving Tom for