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In The Novel, The Great Gatsby, The Author, F Scott Fitzgerald,

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In the novel, The Great Gatsby, the author, F Scott Fitzgerald, expresses the reality of the ‘American Dream’ through a series of unfavorable events set in the 1920s. The American Dream is to work hard young and retire early while being rich and in love. The character Jay Gatsby is chasing this dream throughout the novel. Gatsby has almost everything to complete the dream, he is rich, young, and in love but, the girl he loves, Daisy, is married to another man. Daisy’s husband, Tom, is rich and young the problem in their relationship is that they do not love each other. The two lovers, Daisy and Gatsby become reunited through a mutual acquaintance named Nick. Nick is Gatsby’s neighbor, Daisy’s cousin and the narrator in this novel. …show more content…

I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was girl, and so I turned my head and wept. ‘All Right,’ I said, “I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool-that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’” (21) When Daisy opened up to her cousin, Nick, she revealed her sadness in life and how Tom has ruined her outlook on life. She expressed her feelings towards being a woman and that she wishes her daughter stay ignorant so that she will be happy in life. Chapter one shows through setting the depressing lives people with the “American Dream’ live and that it is not what it seems like. Chapter two shows through the characters that people are restless and liars, even when they have everything they need. Tom took Nick into the city to meet his girlfriend. Tom’s girlfriend Myrtle lies to her husband to get away to the apartment Tom and her share in New York City. The couple both lie to their spouses even though they do so much for them. The couple’s relationship is based on lies and it is not surprising to hear the lie Tom tells Myrtle. Myrtle’s sister explained to Nick the reason that Tom and Myrtle cannot get married, “‘It’s really his wife that’s keeping them apart. She’s a catholic and they don’t believe in divorce’ Daisy was not a catholic and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie’(38). Tom lies to

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