Affairs, Nick, and Gatsby in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is told from the perspective of one of the main characters, Nick Carraway. Nick tells the story of a man named Jay Gatsby, who is his neighbor in the West Egg. Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as a man who everyone wants to know and copy but deep down are very envious of him. Gatsby trusts few people and those whom he trusts know his life story. To everyone else, he is a mystery. Everyone seems obsessed with Jay Gatsby. For this reason the novel revolves about rumors of Gatsby rather than the truth.

Jay Gatsby or as he was originally known as, James Gatz of North Dakota changed his name at the age of seventeen, when he started his career. James Gatz was a boy who spent his time loafing along the beach in the afternoons in a pair of canvas pants and a torn green jersey. But it was Jay Gatsby who borrowed a row boat making a start on his way to a new life.

Myrtle Wilson, the wife of George, and the lover of Tom Buchanan, is brutally murdered toward the end of the novel. After an uncivilized afternoon in New York, Daisy and Gatsby head swiftly back to East Egg. Gatsby explains to Nick, “It all happened in a minute, but it seemed to me that she wanted to speak to us, thought we were somebody she knew” (Fitzgerald 109). Myrtle ran out toward the car looking for Tom but sadly for her it is not him. Many know about Tom’s affair, but not with whom he is having it, especially Daisy. Daisy never slows the car down, and she never realizes who she hits. This shows that Daisy is oblivious to Myrtles existence. Myrtle is sleeping with her husband, she ruins their marriage, and Daisy kills her. The irony exists in this because Daisy actually saves her marriage by killing

The line of attack we use in order to identify individuals around us is an intriguing thing. Our perception is forever shifting, forever building, and affected not only by the person’s actions, but by the actions of those around them. In Scott F. Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby Nick Caraway’s perception of Jay Gatsby is always changing. All the way through the novel, Nick’s perception of Gatsby changes from him perceived as a rich chap, to a man that lives in the past, to a man trying to achieve his aspirations but has failed.

N=Necessary Information: In “The Great Gatsby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carroway, the narrator, has recently moved from the midwest to start his career in New York. He lives on the island of West Egg, next door to a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby. Nick becomes friends with him and learns that Gatsby is in love with his cousin Daisy. They never married because Gatsby had to go off into the military and he was not rich enough for her, so when Gatsby was shipped overseas, Daisy married another man named Tom Buchanan. When Gatsby returns from his service and discovers this, he begins bootlegging to make enough money to try to impress her and win her over. After Gatsby uses Nick to

Gatsby had constantly in mind the date he lost Daisy; he dreamt of the day he could have her back and of the day she would confess her love to him. “Five years next November” (87) he told Daisy when they met again. Five years waiting for his true love, five years idealizing his girl, five years of constant work to acquire enough wealth to have her back. “No, we couldn’t meet. But both of us loved each other all the time…” (131) argued Gatsby to Tom, Daisy’s husband, explaining the eternal love he felt for Daisy and the love he though Daisy shared with him. Gatsby love did not end the day Daisy married Tom,

True love is seen through a relationship of two people. Love exists when two people give all their trust, loyalty, and support to one another. Now imagine finding out all of the love and loyalty was false? Betraying a loved one can make someone capable of things they didn’t even know they were capable of. Betrayal is the breaking of a trust that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals. In The Great Gatsby, characters pursue in the action of having an affair and the result of betraying their loved ones. In the book, The Great Gatsby, the concept of true love is portrayed in a way that negatively affects the characters.

also befriends Nick to get to Daisy indirectly. Gatsby also reveals no guilt knowing he is interfering a marriage by perusing daisy. "Your wife doesn't love you . . . She's never loved you. She loves me."(Fitzgerald, 127) Gatsby exclaims this confidently trying to

Nick is aware that Daisy is not Catholic and that Tom’s response shows his duplicitous nature. Once Myrtle’s husband finds out that she has been unfaithful to him, he decides that he and Myrtle are leaving town, which marks the end of the relationship between Tom and Myrtle. If Tom had possessed the same feelings toward Myrtle as she did for him and had cared about their future together, he would have married her and avoided Myrtle’s husband taking her away and her no longer being part of his life. Nick, as an outside observer of Tom and Myrtle’s relationship, realizes that the lack of mutual feelings and willingness to make a commitment result in the dissolution of the relationship. By understanding the reasons behind the failure of their relationship, Nick arrives at an understanding that, for a relationship to be successful, there must be mutual commitment between the parties.

During an argument, Gatsby tells Tom, “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me!” (Fitzgerald, 124). Gatsby still thinks that Daisy only loves him even though she is married to

Gatsby’s was just looking to take what he could get (Fitzgerald 149) with Daisy but ended up falling in love with her. When he returned from the war he knew that he needed to have money if he was ever going to be with Daisy again. So Gatsby became a bootlegger and created the house and life that he had imagined for him and Daisy. She loved the extravagant life that he had built for himself but it still wasn’t enough for her to leave her life with Tom. Daisy knew that she could never be with a bootlegger, and ended up fleeing town with Tom, without even saying goodbye. Daisy cares more about what others think of her than about how she feels.

The Great Gatsby is the story of a man named Jay Gatsby, an eccentric millionaire who lives on Long Island. The whole novel is written in the perspective of Nick Carraway. Nick was originally from the Midwest, but moved to Long Island to get involved in the stock market. From the beginning, Gatsby shows an unusual interest in Nick, which we later discover is because Nick is a cousin of Daisy Buchanan's. Eventually, Gatsby convinces Nick to arrange a meeting between the two. After initially getting back in touch, Gatsby and Daisy begin to see each other frequently, which causes all the conflict in the book. As Nick is telling the story, we see holes in his logic quite often, which leads us to believe not everything he says is completely true. This trait is exactly what makes Nick an unreliable narrator.

Tom advertises his affair with Myrtle to spread word of his power over women. Tom is insecure in his masculinity, he needs his peers to validate it. When Nick enters his social circles, Tom is quick to introduce

After retracing her route, Casey finally saw the sign that said, Madison, ten miles. It was nice to see civilization again. For a moment, she imagined she had stumbled into the Twilight Zone, and the road would go on and on and on. Tomorrow she would try to find a local historian to begin researching her family home before heading back to Glendara and eventually back to Macon.

How far would someone go for love? In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the narrator, Nick Carraway, is a young male who moves to West Egg, New York, to learn more about the bonds business and soon finds the undesirable love Jay Gatsby, Nick’s neighbor, has for Daisy. Nick is Daisy’s cousin, who is married to Tom Buchanan, he visits them both at their house for lunch one day. Fortunately, Tom and Nick were college roommates back in the day, but Nick soon discovers that Tom has been cheating on Daisy, but Daisy knows this information already and she cares, but only because she cares more about Tom’s wealth than his love for her. Finding out that Nick is related to Daisy, Gatsby suddenly then tries to politely find a way to set up a date with Daisy without her knowing. However, Daisy doesn’t know if she loves Gatsby as much as he does which makes her lose it mentally and makes her drive erotically with Gatsby’s car causing her to run over Myrtle with his yellow car, but since Gatsby loves Daisy he willingly took the blame for the murder; which led to his death, only to find that Gatsby could never win back the love of his life, Daisy. In this novel, Gatsby shows three different sides of himself: a romantic, lonely, and an obsessive man.