gatdream F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby - Just Dream It! :: Great Gatsby Essays

The Great Gatsby Just dreaming It   In Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby, all the characters ar, in one way or another, causeing to achieve a state of happiness in their lives. The main characters are divided into two groups the rich upper class and the poorer lower class, which struggles to hand a higher position. Though the major players seek only to assortment their lives for the better, the American Dream is inevitably crushed beneath the harsh earthly concern of life, leaving their lives without meaning or purpose.   Tom and Daisy Buchanan, the rich socialite couple, seem to shake up everything they could possibly desire however, though their lives are full of material possessions and bored goods, they are unsatisfied and seek to change. Tom, the arrogant ex-football player, drifts on forever want a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some unrecoverable football game(pg. 10) and reads deep books with long words in them(pg. 17) in order to have something to talk about. Though he appears happily get married to Daisy, Tom has an affair with myrtle Wilson and keeps an apartment with her in New York. Toms fundamental nature of unrest pr even outts him from being satisfied with the life he leads, and so he creates another life for himself with Myrtle. Daisy Buchanan is an empty character, someone with hardly any convictions or desires. Even before her loyalty to either Tom or Gatsby is called into question, Daisy does nothing but sit around all day and enjoy what to do with herself and her friend Jordan. She knows that Tom has a mistress on the side, to that degree she doesnt leave him even when she learns of Gatsbys love for her. Daisy makes her love to Gatsby apparent, yet cannot bring herself to put forward Tom goodbye except when Gatsby forces her too. Even then, once Tom begs her to stay, even then Daisy crowning(prenominal)ly leaves Gatsby for a life of comfort and security. The Buchanans are the ultimate examples of wealth and prosperity, and the American Dream. Yet their lives are empty, unfulfilled, and without purpose.   Though Myrtle Wilson makes an attempt to escape her own class and pursue happiness with the richer set, her efforts ultimately garden truck no results and she dies. She is basically a victim of the group she wanted to join. Myrtle tries to join Toms class by entering into an affair with him and taking on his way of living, but in doing so she becomes corrupt as if she were rich.