The Great Gatsby Ending Analysis

Nick was just an average person just trying to work his way up to the American dream. If no one came to say goodbye to Jay Gatsby after his death, what was in store for him when he died. This emphasized his fear of growing older and being isolated.

The Great Gatsby is considered to be a great American novel full of hope, deceit, wealth, and love. Daisy Buchanan is a beautiful and charming young woman who can steal a man’s attention through a mere glance. Throughout the novel, she is placed on a pedestal, as if her every wish were Gatsby’s command. Her inner beauty and grace are short-lived, however, as Scott Fitzgerald reveals her materialistic character. Her reprehensible activities lead to devastating consequences that affect the lives of every character. I intend to show that Daisy, careless and self-absorbed, was never worthy of Jay Gatsby’s love, for she was the very cause of his death.

“Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes” (91).

Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes. With his hands still in his coat pockets he stalked by me into the hall, turned sharply as if he were on a wire, and disappeared into the living−room… Aware of the loud beating of my own heart I pulled the door to against the increasing rain. (Fitzgerald 45)

Do you think it was peculiar that the man from the library was the only outside person who attended Gatsby’s funeral? Why do you think he came out of everyone?

Who Jay Gatsby truly loved wasn’t the real Daisy Buchanan but instead the Daisy Fay in the past he imagined of after haven’t seeing her for five years. The exciting re-encounter between Jay and Daisy occurred when Nick Caraway invited Daisy alone to tea, and Gatsby took the two around his mansion. Yet, by the end of the meet, Nick the narrator described that “I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a

"— he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward — and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet

In the time that I have grown close to him, I have learned many things, but the most important thing that I have learned is to never give up. Gatsby had recently rekindled his relationship with a former love that he had been pursuing for five years. He had fallen in love with the idea of getting his woman back, and this provided Gatsby with motivation throughout the war and other troubling times. In addition to motivation, this relationship gave him purpose. I observed this once in a casual conversation about him, “Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor” (78). Gatsby loved this woman and eventually, his protective and loving nature over her is what got him killed. Anyhow, enough of this, let us now begin to focus on the early stages of Gatsby’s life. He

From the green light to his last breath, Gatsby’s ambition is both noble and inspiring, but also futile and tragic.

“The Great Gatsby” follows Nick’s perspective on Jay Gatsby’s desperate attempt to get to be with his only love, and only desire in life, Daisy Buchanan. Life has not been kind to Gatsby as he worked his way up the social ladder, the only thing keeping him together being the obsessive need to get Daisy to leave all else to be with him. Gatsby wrote many letters to Daisy, most of which he never sent, both before and after he found out she married another man. I was most eager to read these letters, so this will be what I think may have been written in one of Gatsby’s many un-sent letters to Daisy – after he found out that she had married another man. To the best of my ability I will mimic the language Gatsby used when talking to and about Daisy. With this I hope to achieve that desperate and delusional tone of voice that he has.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Attitude towards Nick Carraway in the Great Gatsby Known as the Roaring Twenties, the time period in which The Great Gatsby takes place in is a period filled with dramatic social and political change. Nick (like everyone) is flawed. He says “Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.” (Fitzgerald 3.)but contradicts this statement by judging everyone throughout the novel, but even though Nick has some flaws Fitzgerald uses Nick Carraway to show the people of his society how one should be loyal, and honest, in a time of corruption, materialism, and immorality.

Purposely and thoughtfully concluded, the author encompasses a comprehensive reunion between Daisy & Gatsby to highlight their individual character traits; to portray Daisy as addled with love & materialistic, and Gatsby as a wistful and foolish young man. The reunion aids in fulfilling the missing element, whose lack of presence left mystery to the reasoning behind Gatsby’s actions and purposes. By shining a light on his underlying goal to ultimately captivate Daisy’s ardor, he endeavors to rekindle their idyllic love belonging to years prior. Gatsby desperately grasps onto the past, not “once ceas[ing]” his “looking at Daisy” while he attempts to quickly bind the severed ties in their relationship.

Ever since Gatsby met Daisy 5 years ago in Louisville, he has been trying to earn her back. His first attempt at this is when he convinces Nick to “Invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let [Gatsby] come over”. Fitzgerald is trying to set up the book for the let down that is inevitable, he wants the readers hopes up before he ends them all. As the story advances the readers sees signs of Daisy choosing Tom over Gatsby. But the reader really understands it when “Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table, with a plate of cold fried chicken between them” (144-145). This is a pivotal moment in the story because it's obvious she chooses Tom over Gatsby by the way she is so compliant towards Tom. This moment makes the novel a tragedy because Gatsby has had one single mission: to get Daisy back. With this moment the reader knows it will never happen. An additional somber moment that happens to Gatsby is the attendance to his funeral. After Gatsby is killed by George, Nick plans a funeral. But the sad truth is all of Gatsby's “friends” could not attend. His so called “best-friend” Meyer Wolfsheim was one who could not attend the funeral because he could not “get mixed up in it” (171). With no one attending Gatsby's funeral the reader feels remorse for Gatsby. Fitzgerald does this to further illustrate the tragic backbone of the The Great Gatsby. With many awful

All the words that Tom was spewing was fuel to Gatsby eruption of anger, all because he wanted a girl he could not have. He had put his fist before his words and striked Tom, the rest of us stood at a loss having never seen Gatsby act in this manner. I did nothing, said nothing, being the person Gatsby had truthfully told everything to I always saw him as a poised, confident, gentleman. But at in those moments he had lost his senses, Daisy was frightened. She had fastly ran out of the apartment and Gatsby followed right behind her.

When it comes with the law, justice, and order to justify someone’s death; there is always a person who is the one to cause the death, in this case, Gatsby is the one who dies. However, his death was left uncertain because it’s uncertain on who caused his death. In The Great Gatsby, by Scott Fitzgerald, the death of Gatsby and the responsibility that lead up till his demise is due to Gatsby’s entrapment in his dream world, Daisy’s Selfish wants for Gatsby’s possessions, and Tom’s perspective towards Gatsby.