Jay Gatsby Failure

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, the book from the roaring 20’s that is full of love and drama. The main character, Jay Gatsby, was in love with only one woman but that woman loved money even more. Gatsby was broke at the time so he had to let her go and she ended up marrying a man with money. Jay Gatsby was a man who earned his own money, loved a woman that wasn’t really meant for him, and almost lived the American Dream. Gatsby, the man that was so rich he could throw parties every weekend. Gatsby was not born wealthy, his parents were unfortunately unsuccessful farmers. But as an adult he became successful and rich. People thought he was a spy and/or a murderer. But he really just owned drug stores, illegally sold alcohol and

Later in the book Gatsby gains contact with Daisy and they got closer. When it came to what Gatsby wanted from her she said “Oh, you want too much! I love you now isn’t that enough? I loved him once- but I loved you too.”(Fitzgerald 140). What Gatsby really wanted was to hear her say that she never loved him, him as in Tom. After that Daisy agreed with Gatsby that she was going to leave Tom. Gatsby probably would’ve been happier if she had chosen him, but she didn’t. She was the one person that made Gatsby tick and want to relive the past. But her having a daughter, with Tom, showed him that she had a life apart from him and that it would be harder for him to relive the past with her. When she didn’t call on time and didn’t choose him in the end, shows that they were not meant to be together and that she was not the one for

Gatsby on the other hand didn’t just dream it but almost lived it. He had almost everything, he had the money, car, house, clothes but was just missing two things. Those two things were the girl and the family. He obviously didn’t get the girl which means he also didn’t get the family. In the end Daisy decides to call Gatsby and as he’s about to get up to answer the phone, Wilson shoots him. Wilson only shoots Gatsby because in the movie Tom told him that it was Gatsby that was having the affair with Myrtle and that he’s the one that hit her. “It was a yellow car.”(Fitzgerald 147). After that Tom said “That yellow car I was driving this afternoon wasn’t mine, do you hear? I haven’t seen it all afternoon.”(Fitzgerald 148). Wilson shooting Gatsby is the reason why Gatsby was so close to living the american dream. If he wasn’t shot then Daisy may have chosen him and then he would have been living the American Dream but he