To do this, he needs to become wealthy to suit her East Egg lifestyle. Most people assume that Gatsby was into shady business because a lot of “the newly rich are just big bootleggers” (Gatsby 107). With his new fortune, Gatsby buys a mansion on the water “so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (Gatsby 78). When Gatsby and Daisy are reunited for the first time in five years, Gatsby is ecstatic. Gatsby dreams that he will “fix everything to the way it was before” (Gatsby 110).
n The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby represents a man blinded by his own greed and imagination. He wants only money and love and must work hard to achieve both. The era of this book reflects greatly on the actions and ideas of Gatsby’s character. This book is a good example of corruption brought upon a person who goes after something that is filled completely with empty promise. Jay Gatsby wants so deeply to experience love that he puts his faith completely into someone that could never fulfill his expectations.
Since Jerry had no idea what he was doing as a criminal mastermind, he couldn’t successfully put across some guidelines for the two hit men. His greed also just wanted it done for himself, while he just basically sits back and lets it happen. This mistake is what leads to the three innocent lives being lost in the car, and later Jerry’s wife ends up being killed after not cooperating properly with one of the hit men. All Jerry wanted was the easy way out of his financial slump, but he ended up getting himself into much more than he asked
However he starts to have doubts about Jordan when he finds out that she had cheated at a golf tournament. Nick later becomes disgusted with Jordan and their relationship end after he finds out that she was dating another man. Nick now sees Jordan as being spoiled, dishonest, careless and wanting to win everything at the expense of honesty, and trust. Thus, love is once again seen as an unobtainable fantasy After reading the novel it is fair to say that relationships within The Great Gatsby seem to revolve around and are motivated by money, rather than true love, thus relationships are evidently to fail, making love an unobtainable fantasy. Tom Buchanan’s relationship with his secret lover, Myrtle is about sex, while Tom gives Myrtle the money which her own husband cannot provide.
Jay Gatsby, the main character in the novel, symbolized the American dream of the ‘20’s. Jay Gatsby was raised by a lower class family in North Dakota, similar to Fitzgerald himself. Gatsby later moved to New York to become a bootlegger, selling alcohol illegally during the time of prohibition. This brought Jay a great deal of success and he became a self-made millionaire, eventually growing to be the wealthiest man on West Egg. Charles Baker said “Gatsby is our model for success because he appeals to our remarkable ability to adjust our personal code of ethics in order to get what we think we somehow deserve” (47).
Charles Foster Kane, publisher of the New York inquirer and numerous other papers, and one of the richest men in the world, influenced America’s thinking for half a century. However, Kane is flawed, self-serving, destructive opportunist, a classic tragic figure doomed to fall. Because he had lots of money, Kane believed he could buy anything including the friendship and love. Message is simple: success, power, riches cannot replace love and tranquility. Many people walked out on Kane’s life: first wife Emily, the best friend Leland, and second wife Susan.
The obsession with social hierarchy drives people to be selfish and greedy- never happy with what they have. At the same time, there are many people like Gatsby today who feel they have to cheat their way to the top to be happy, like so many corporate giants who have schemed for years and stole billions of dollars from innocent, but maybe slightly naïve taxpayers. Both kinds of people have lost the sense of the American dream. Originally people just wanted a perfect but humble life: a loving, close-knit family, a steady paying job, and ultimately pure happiness. But once people see that it is possible to have much more than that, they begin to get covetous and only want more.
In this novel by Fitzgerald, Gatsby's dreams for life are discussed. Jay Gatsby has a aspiration to be a rich person. When he was young, he was never at ease with what he had. He wanted money, so he managed to get it by doing many things. Gatsby fought in World War I. Gatsby was very wealthy at this time, but he still was not pleased because he desired more and more.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The American Dream before World War 1 was about moral values and the pursuit of happiness. Unfortunately, the War led to an economic boom in which people bought materialistic items they would have never bought before. This caused the dream to decay and people started to believe that worldly pleasures, money and ultimately, greed was above everything else. With this economic boom, any person of any social class could become wealthy. Jay Gatsby’s need to climb the social ladder and become the romantic hero for his lost lover shows the need of wealth for people in this era.
Once the war ended, Gatsby got into illegal activities with Meyer Wolfsheim. He only did what he did in order to have Daisy. When Gatsby realized it could never come true, he has nothing left to live for. His endless pursuit ended in worthlessness. The light across the sound on the end of Daisy’s dock represents the idyllic perfection that Gatsby, and thus the American people, instilled to themselves.