While in the military Gatsby meets Daisy Fay, who is “the most popular of all young girls in Louisville” (Gatsby 74). He becomes enamored immediately. Gatsby leaves for the war, but he comes back to find her married to “Tom Buchanan of Chicago”; Gatsby is grief stricken (Gatsby 78). He is determined to impress Daisy and win her back. To do this, he needs to become wealthy to suit her East Egg lifestyle.

 Malcolm lost his job and home, and began dealing marijuana to jazz players with his partner Sammy the Pimp. Malcolm was able to avoid the draft because he told the Army’s psychiatrist that he wished to lead Southern blacks to murder Southern whites. He then began a series of robberies, trafficking illegal guns, and started to use hard drugs such as
Gatsby dedicated himself to winning Daisy, which leads him to gain millions of dollars, buy an ostentatious mansion, and hold weekly parties. The love for his own illusion of Daisy motivates him in many ways. Gatsby even felt it necessary to fabricate his entire identity. The narrator states, “So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.” Gatsby reinvents himself to conform to his own ideas of how he should live and how people should perceive him. He lies about countless things, so he can portray a man of wealth with sophistication and class.
Two such novels that contain love and the secrets it contains are the Great Gatsby and Ethan Frome. The Great Gatsby is a novel told from the perspective of one of its characters, Nick Caraway, looking back on the events that unfolded because of his close relationship with his neighbor, James Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby was a man of extreme wealth that came to him because of a large inheritance from his father, or so he claims. He holds extravagant parties every weekend that often are filled with everyone in town. His true intentions of holding this shindigs so often is to attract his former flame Daisy, Nick's cousin, to see if he can relight their flame that was never fully blown out.
Well when he returned from world war one as a veteran; Daisy had left him for Tom Buchanan. Gatsby was so keen on getting Daisy back; he devoted his life into becoming a very rich man in an attempt to steal Daisy from Tom. After a couple small jobs from working on a boat to a school janitor, he started selling illegal alcohol otherwise known as bootlegging. This job made Jay Gatsby a very rich man, really fast. He was no longer in the poor social class but in the Nouveau Riche social class.
It is also revealed that Gatsby, as a child, had a list of things that he wanted to improve, and the fact that his father said that he always was a hard worker, proves his determination. As the book comes to a close, Gatsby’s “job” is exposed as an illegal bootlegger and a fraud. When Gatsby loses all chances of winning back Daisy from Tom, it foreshadows his actual death, as his main goal and dream in life to make Daisy his wife is crushed. This in a sense portrays Gatsby as a tragic hero because everything he worked for, although it was illegal, is over, and none of his friends attend his funeral. Gatsby’s feeble and pathetic side are therefore
Gatsby fell in love with Daisy almost immediately after meeting her. Gatsby was attracted to Daisy's wealth and charm. He lied to Daisy about his past in an attempt to convince Daisy he deserved a girl like her. Daisy and Gatsby's love got cut short by Gatsby having to serve in the war. While Gatsby was in the war, Daisy married a man named Tom Buchanan a wealthy man.
Boon says, "Gatsby's fate reflects the status of the American Dream" (Boon 65). Boon feels that the book resembles “The decay of the American dream” (Boon 69). Because of his actions, he consequently ends up being shot. While driving in a car with Daisy, he runs over Myrtle Wilson. Her husband then murders Gatsby.
The Boozing Barber Gilbert Paul Jordan, also known as Gilbert Paul Elsie was a drunken mess his whole life. This man gained a reputation of the town drunk. He was wealthy enough to hire him a decent lawyer later on when he was convicted for murder. Paul's victims were mainly aboriginal prostitutes. His first victim was in 1965, when he killed a women using alcohol poisoning.
Jack the Ripper is so famous for his murders because of how gruesome they were. It was like he knew the women personally and despised them. All the murders happened within one year of each other. Usually a serial killer will kill up until he is either caught, or he/she commits suicide. So was he caught, or did he murder his self?