The Great Gatsby Research Paper

In the novel, The Great Gatsby. by F. Scott Fitzgerald. He shows how unattainable the American Dream can be and the failures of it. An example of the American dream in The Great Gatsby is Gatsby chasing Daisy, which ends when Gatsby gets killed. Daisy dreams of wanting to escape her marriage to Tom to be with Gatsby but later moves somewhere else with Tom, and Wilson wants to live in the West with Myrtle and live in an upper class where Myrtle gets killed making him depressed. Daisy throughout the story shows how she doesn’t want to be with Tom but at the same time not being able to leave him to be with Gatsby but later moves away with Tom. “I never loved him,’’ she said, with perceptible reluctance. “Not at Kapiolani?” Tom suddenly asked, “No.” (Fitzgerald 132).

The whole time she’s with Tom, she doesn’t feel the same as she does with Gatsby. “But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon and taken baggage with them. “left no address?’’ “No” “say when they’d be back?” “No.” (Fitzgerald 164) At the end as Gatsby dies, she has Tom left and decided to move away. Overall, for Daisy, the dream was to be with who she wanted instead of feeling confused. She loved Tom and Gatsby, but couldn’t decide who to go with. For Gatsby, American Dream was all about winning daisy from Tom and recreating his daisy past all over but soon ending when he gets killed. “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why, of course, you can!”. “I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,” he said, nodding determinedly. “She’ll see” (Fitzgerald 110) As you can see, Gatsby obsession with reliving the past with Daisy. He’s willing to fix everything to be with her. “But it wasn’t a coincidence at