What Is The End Of The Great Gatsby

From the very beginning to the very end of his life, Gatsby was only certain of one idea: he was meant to be with Daisy. When it became obvious that they could not have stayed together, Gatsby spent years trying to rebuild himself in order to change this fate, but ultimately the fact that they were separate and apart for so long was immutable. While James Gatz was shot in the pool, Gatsby died much earlier. Gatsby was the product of the unrequited love he had for Daisy, and without it, Gatsby was nothing. Gatsby died at the hands of the Buchanans, much like Myrtle and George. Once Myrtle’s secret life was found, she was hopeless. With the last speck of optimism left, she went to the car Tom was in earlier and died at the hands of Daisy.

When he and Daisy first kiss, it is a beautiful fall night, with no trees around, and with bright moonlight shining down. When Gatsby dies it is a beautiful fall afternoon, with daylight shining through from behind the many trees. Daisy “blossomed for him”(111), but in the end “he found what a grotesque thing a rose is” (162). Fitzgerald described exactly how Daisy, the rich, decimated Gatsby, the poor. As hard as Gatsby tried to grow out of his roots through this character, in the end he still fell short. Without his dream everything he accomplished and achieved was worthless. He was not Gatsby anymore. As soon as Daisy left, he was bound to nothing else in the world. While Gatsby started with an “incarnation”(111) he ended in a “holocaust”(162) because Daisy selfishly ripped apart his dream instead of letting him down easily. Instead of taking the high road, to protect Gatsby, she only thought of herself, leaving him to take the blame of Myrtle’s death and their failed relationship. Daisy took no blame. Her selfishness allowed for nothing else. She took all she could from him, leaving him with absolutely nothing in the world. With no hope of his dream at the hands of Daisy, he