In the book, The Great Gatsby, Mr. Gatsby himself was a romantic character that was in a world of reality. He funded all of his enterprise, not caring about the means to get there, just in order to impress a woman with his wealth. All of the relationships that he had acquired and decisions that he had made in his life were mainly just to have this woman, Daisy Buchanan, to be his lover. In the book The Great Gatsby, the character Jay Gatsby was a romantic hero in an era of realism and since he wanted to remake the world, exaggerate to impress and was completely preoccupied with Daisy, he was predestined to die.
             One of the major reasons for Jay Gatsby to die in the end of the book was the fact that constantly throughout the story tried to remake the world to his will. An example of this is when Gatsby first met Daisy Buchanan at Nick Carraway's house for tea. "Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers and set it back in place." (Pg. 91) Gatsby nearly breaks a clock in Nick's house, showing the reality that he wants to stop time so he can experience this moment with Daisy forever. Another way that Gatsby believes he can control the world, for his own benefits, is when he states that he believes that the past can be repeated. "Can't repeat the past?" He cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand." (Pg. 116) This also shows that he wants to restructure the world, just as it was when he first met Daisy before he went off to war. Since Gatsby constantly tries to reconstruct the world for himself, he is hopeless because not everything is going to change for his own will in a realistic world. "As Gatsby created in his imagination a world that did not exist, Marius (from Marius th...