Great_Gatsby

Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitsgerald, is about the American Dream, and the downfall of those who attempt to reach its imaginative goals. The attempt to capture the American Dream is common in many novels. This dream is different for different people, but in The Great Gatsby, for Jay, the dream is that through wealth and power, one can acquire happiness. To get this happiness Jay must reach into the past and relive an old dream and in order to do this he must have wealth and power. Jay Gatsby, the main character of the story, is a character that longs for the past. Suprisingly he devotes most of his adult life trying to recapture it and, finally, dies in its pursuit. In the past, Jay had a love affair with the extravagant Daisy. Knowing he could not marry her because of the difference in their social status, he leaves her to obtain wealth to reach her high standards. Once he acquires this wealth, he returns to seek to approval of Daisy so he buys a house just across the bay from his love Daisy. Soon he meets Nick Carraway, a cousin of Daisy, dream, jay, american, daisy, wealth, gatsby, past, reach, love, great, about, you'll, true, set, returns, power, personal, one, old, nick, never, must, meeting, life, invite, house, happiness, finally, everyone, different, comes, character, capture, cannot, believes, attempt, agrees, yesbut, yes, whom, way, watches, wait, until, ultimate, trying, today's, time, through, thing