The great gatsby
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby struggles with his own American dream. The American dream is to start out poor and isolated and make your way up to the top of the financial and social pyramids, to achieve wealth in excess, and to be able to have whatever you want by being a self-made man. Gatsby has a similar but different struggle that is analogous to this ideal. He has already made it to the top of the financial and social pyramids, and has more money than he could ever need, but he still lacks one thing - Daisy Buchanan. She is the one thing that he wants so badly, the one thing that would make his American dream complete, and she is completely unattainable because he does not have the connections of the established wealth, and because of his obscure past.The narrator of the story, Nick Carraway, has also experienced his own American dream unfolding. He is from a small town in Minnesota, and has moved to New York in the early summer of 1922, in order to learn more about the bond business. He has started from a place of lesser wealth, made his way up to the upper class. While Gatsby struggles with the dilemma of being excluded from the elitist established wealth, Nick struggles to make his way into
He meets Tom Buchanan and his wife Daisy, and begins to delve into the realm of the rich. As the summer moves on, it seems to Gatsby that Tom is the one thing getting in the way of their relationship. He has decided to take the blame for Daisy's hit and run; it seems that he supposes his money will shield him from the consequences. He wanted Daisy so badly that he went all out to get her, and in the end he loses his life because of his dream. He puts the priority of impressing her, getting her back, doing everything in his power to just get her to notice him as the primary objective, but there is a problem. " But the next time that she tries to show her love, she is caught by Tom. A crowd gathers and people begin to suspect that Gatsby had killed Myrtle in a fit of rage towards Tom. He knows that it can't be Tom because Tom had arrived in another car, so George asks him about the owned of the car. He resolves to seek her out and rekindle their love by arranging a meeting through Nick, so that she will not know she is going to see him. She says to Gatsby during the lunch, "Ah, You look so cool. Although their first reunion starts off rocky and awkward, soon he seems to have rekindled at least a friendship with her. By taking the blame for Daisy, he ensures a prompt reaction from George, Myrtle's husband. "Gatsby's car is spotted soon after, speeding away from a hit and run.
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