The Great Gatsby Cheating Essay

The American Dream was not attained in The Great Gatsby by the character Gatsby because all the things he did was to be with Daisy Buchanan but in the end, it became worthless as a result of him not being with her. Before he went off to the war he fell in love with this woman named Daisy, but Gatsby could not stay long with her because of the war Daisy, however, did not wait till he came back from the war and she married a man named Tom who was wealthy and available something Gatsby was not “In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago, with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before. He came down with a hundred people in four private cars and hired a whole floor of the Seelbach Hotel, and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at

Coming back from the war and hearing that Daisy got married to a man who was wealthy and successful, Gatsby did his best to be as successful as him; Gatsby made his money mostly by selling liquor and also in other illegal ventures, these sorts of actions show how Gatsby was cheating his way through to make his successful all to impress Daisy. Gatsby later on the book did his best to win Daisy over by showing her his house, all the clothes he had and showing how wealthy he is, they met every now and then behind the back of Daisy’s husband. Gatsby did not get to be with Daisy due to the fight he had with her Tom when he figured out that his wife was having an affair with Gatsby. After this incident, Gatsby’s death occurs which is due to Daisy driving the car and killing Myrtle, later on Myrtle’s husband figures out who killed his wife and goes after Gatsby and kills him and in the process of shooting himself “The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of compass, a thin red circle in the water. It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete” (Fitzgerald, pg.