The Great Gatsby Research Paper

Are the People Responsible Seeing the American Dream for What It Is Not?
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a book written about what the American Dream has become. The book, published in 1925, centers around the attempt of the main character, Jay Gatsby, to get back with the girl he meets five years prior. He meets Daisy Fay while he is in the military, but she gets married while Gatsby is away at war to a man by the name of Tom Buchanan. Tom has a mistress, Myrtle Wilson, who Daisy knows about, which helps her to be okay with having an affair of her own. Myrtle’s husband, George Wilson, suspects that his wife is having an affair. All the characters’ actions lead to the deaths of three characters. All the characters have a desire

Tom lives with Daisy and has a thing with Myrtle. He does not like new money and will do anything, even blackmail, to make sure no one takes Daisy from him. Tom drives Gatsby’s car one afternoon, and “in one of the windows over the garage the curtains had been moved aside a little and Myrtle Wilson was peering down at the car,” leading Myrtle to think it is his car (Fitzgerald 124). If Tom did not feel the need to stop for gas or use Gatsby’s car, Myrtle could not have seen it, and the deaths could never occur. Even though Tom could prevent the other two deaths, he chooses not to so he does not have to tell George about the affair. Instead, he tells Nick what he does after Nick

Gatsby lives right across the bay from Daisy. He lives in a mansion and has lots of money, but he gets his money in illegal ways. He became a bootlegger to get money so he can get Daisy back: “He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths ㅡ so that he could ‘come over’ some afternoon to a stranger's garden”(Fitzgerald 78). Gatsby waits five years till he figures that he has enough money to face Daisy. Gatsby hosts parties to see if she will come, but she never does, so he decides to get involved in a different way, which is through Nick. Gatsby gets himself into a mess by getting involved with Daisy. His dream to be with her blocks out his common sense of what he should do, and he chooses to save Daisy’s status by telling Nick