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In the book the The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby tries to live the American Dream. But his view of what the American Dream is, changes when he meets Daisy. The reason is because she is all he wants and will do anything to get her. When he is young he just wants to get rich, then when he meets Daisy he only wants to have things to try and win her, but in the end he loses it all. His dream changes from wanting to be successful to only wanting Daisy and he loses both in the end.

Even when Jay was young, as revealed at the end of the book by his father, has always wanted to be successful. In the book that his father found, he outlined a strict schedule of what his day needed to consist of. “”Jimmy was bound to get ahead. He always had some resolves like this or something.”” (Fitzgerald182) In the schedule that he wrote when he was very young he was all about bettering himself and making himself better. He wanted to not do bad things like smoking or chewing, but wanted to do good things like reading.

Then once he gets older and meets Daisy he realizes that she is the only thing that he wants. His love for money takes a back seat while he pursues Daisy. His idea of the American dream changes from only wanting to be successful in monetary ways to only wanting Daisy to fulfill his dream. But then when Daisy marries someone else he is crushed and just wants to get very rich any way that he can because he thinks that the only way that he can get her is being rich. After they meet up for the second time they go over to Gatsby’s house so that he can show her all of his nice things like his shirts to try and impress her and I think it works. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before." (Fitzgerald 98)

Then finally he loses everything. He tries so hard to get two things to complete his dream, Daisy and money. But in the end he ends up with neither. He gets rich off of illegal bonds and they get destroyed after his death. The other thing that he wants, Daisy ends up screwing him because he spends his whole life trying to please her and she just leaves him and doesn’t care about anything that he has done for her. "He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dram must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in the vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night."(Fitzgerald189)

The moral of the story is to have more than one thing that you strive for in your life because if you focus your whole life on one thing then you will end up hurt because if that one thing changes or dissapoints you then it really affects you. Gatsby's obsession with Daisy leaves him with nothing in the end. He doesnt' care about anything but Daisy and that is not healthy. He doesn't have any friends or other people that he can go to. And when he has his funeral there is only like 3 people there.

Thesis for Great Gatsby

In the book the The Great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby tries to live the American Dream but his view of what the American Dream is changes when he meets Daisy because she is all he wants and will do anything to get her. When he is young he just wants to get rich, then when he meets Daisy he only wants to have things to try and win her, but in the end he loses it all. i believe that his dream changes from wanting to be successful to only wanting Daisy and he loses both in the end.

GG. Character list

Nick-Main Character & narrator in the story and lived next to Gatsby. He was a cousin of Daisy and was the main character in the story and looked at it from his point of view.
Gatsby-Started life as James Gatz. very rich man that lived next door to Nick. He was in love with Daisy and threw parties so he could see her. Gets shot at the end of the story by George Wilson by his pool.
Tom- Husband of Daisy and had an affair with Mrytle. Was a famous football player when he was younger which makes him restless.
Daisy- Tom's wife, was in love with Gatsby before she got married. She always seemed perfect and made her life look very perfect even though it really wasnt. She turns very cinical when she finds out about Myrtle and that her husband is cheating.
Jordan Baker- Liked Nick and was with him at times throughout the book. Was a good golfer but was known for cheating a lot. Was going out with Nick but then she said she was already engaged at the end of the book.
Myrtle- Tom's girlfriend. Gets run over by Daisy and was killed. Liked the rich life and thats why she loved being with Tom so much

GG Ch.9

nick says that he is writng two year after gatsbys death and that he tried to hold a funeral for him but the only people that showed up were reporters that wanted to smear him. but jays father did come and tells nick of his early life. all the people pretty much move. so he moves to and breaks up with jordan and she tells him that she is actually engaged to another man. so he starts feeling pretty sinical towards people. so then he decides to move and so he wants to go back to the midwest but while he is in ny ny he sees tom and at first doesn't want to talk to him but then does and realizes that he and daisy only care about themselves and thinkt aht their money can just sheild them from bad things. then before he leaves he goes over to gatsbys house and just kind of mosys around looking at all of the emptiness. he really starts to realize that everyone pretty much just lives for themsevles and don't care about anyone else.
i think that Nick learns that no matter how good they seem to be they are not. Lots of people inthis world are very fake and do not care about anyone but themselves. These are the type of people that nock had been trying not to judge thoughout the entire book but he now finds himself doing just that.
I wonder what he does noiw?

GG Ch.8

in this chapter nick goes over and talks to gatsby who is very upset. he says that he feels like he married daisy because they made love. he also says that he wishes she would come back to him and that he sat at her house till four in the morning. he then starts telling tom about the old days when him and daisy dated. then the gardener tells him he is going to srain the poool but he says not to. so then nick goes to work but can't focus. he declines a date with jordan even. so then wilson wants to find the killer of his wife and get revenge and goes to tom's house to try and see what is up and if he knows who did it and he sents him to gatsby's house. he finds gatsby floating in the poool and then he proceeds to shoot him and himself. then nick comes home from work and finds both the dead bodies and starts thinking about what gatsby was thinking at the very end and wonders if it was thiughts about daisy.
i don't know why nick doesnt react to the situation mnore. he finds gatsby's dead body and doesn't even seem to care. i think that tom is going to be happy that gatsby is dead but he may feel bad.
i wonder if they are going to figure out that gatsby wasn't really driving and it was daisy?

GG Ch.7

In this chapter Nick Jordan and Daisy and Tom and gatsby all decide to go to the city to eat lunch. While they go Tom realizes that there is something going on between daisy and gatsby. he is not very happy about this so he starts looking for a ways to start confrontations with him. so finally he makes fun of him for calling everyone old sport. and then procedes to accuse him of lying about everything and that he is really running a bootlegging company. gatsby gets mad at this and says that daisy doesn't love him and does love him. but then tom says that he can'e undo the past and that him and daisy aren't separating. and at this point daisy is starting to like tom more. so then tom sends daisy and gatsby off by themselves to do whatever and shpow that he is not worried about gatsby abd as they are leavign the valley they see a fatal accindent and realize that myrtle was killed and tom thinks that is was gatsby but daisy was driving. and then gatsby is scared that tom is going to hurt daisy but they are actually very happy with each other and reconcile their differences.
i think that tom and daisy are happy with each other and this whole thing has helped them come together as spouses even more. i also think that gatsby is starting to realize that he is not going to get daisy and that his money isn't going to win her heart.
I wonder what gatsby wil do nexzt?

GG Ch.6

In this chapter the rumors about gatsby are going around a lot and everyone wants to know the real story about his past. There is even a newspaper writer that came to his house to ask him if he had anything to say about his life and he says no. So then nick says that he wants to tell the real story but it wasn't at this piont that he learned about it. he says that gatsby grew up on a farm and his name was actually james gatz and that he dropped out of college and that he got onto a boat cause he saved them from going into a storm. then he worked for the owner and fell in love with the rich lifestyle and when dan cody died he was supposed to get 25000 bucks but he didn't. so then he dedicated the rest of his life to getting rich. so then nick comes back into what is really happening. so he finds that tom is over at gatsbys having lunch and so he goes and it is very awkward and gatsby says that he knows daisy. so then jay has a party and and daisy comes and tom too and jay watches her the whole time and she does not have a good time. so gatsby isn't hap;py because she isn't happy and so he tells nick that he wants her to leave tom and come to her but then he nick figures out that gatsby just wants to please her with his money and that it will never work.
I think that jay doesn't really know what he is in for and that he is trying in all the wrong ways to get daisy back and also Nick is starting to feel very very uncomfortable because he knows that he is caught in the middle of this. i think that he can see the error in jays ways and that it will never be the same between them.

GG Ch.5

In this chapter Nick is getting back from a date with Jordan when Gatsby comes up to him and starts asking him if he would like a hole bunch of services from Jay. He says that he doesn't care until he realizes that he is just doing all these things for him because he wants Nick to arrange a meeting between him and daisy. so he agrees to do what jay wants but he doesn't want him to do all the things that he wanted to have done for him. so nick arranges this meeting for him and so Daisy comes over and Jay comes but then jay leaves and tells nick that it was a bad idea. But then he comes back and it stays kind of awkward for everyone but then he finally starts talking. and then he says that they should go to his house and they do and while they are there he takes daisy all around his house and shows her everything he owns of value. and she is like really happy and starts crying?

I think that jay is trying really hard to impress daisy because i think that he knows that she wants to have a lot of things and is very motivated by things. so he takes her throughout his whole house showing her every valuable thing. i think that nick feels that it is awkward that he is also involved with daisy seeing another man after he has already been with Tom when he was with his other woman. It is like Nick plays the middle man the whole time.
How will Nick change the situation that he is in being the middle man.

GG Ch.4

This chapter starts with Nick telling how he has kept a list of all the people that he has met at Gatsby's parties. So he goes through and tells about all the people and a little bit about them. He basically makes a list of all the rich and famous people in the Eggs. Then Jay takes him to lunch in the city and to meet one of his business partners. On the way up Jay says that he may of heard lots of stories about how he obtained his wealth but he will tell him the truth. he says that his family lived in the Midwest and they all died tragically and then he went to Europe and ended up in the war. So then they get the resturant and they all talk and Nick comes to find out that his partner actually rigged the world series. So right away nick is a little skepticle. Then he tells nick that the buttons on his cuffs are human molars so nick is very freaked out. Then meyer leaves and they see tom and they go up to talk to him and when nick turns around jay is gone. so then it jumps to nick talking to Jordan and she tells him how daisy and jay were in love before tom and daisy got married. And he tells him that is why Jay bought the house across the bay so he could be by daisy. Sh ealso tells him that gatsby wants to use him to get to daisy.

I think that nick is very taken back by all the thinks that he learns in this chapter. He doesn't know what to think about Jay and Daisy and Jay wanting to use him to get to daisy. Also he doesn't know what to think about Meyer and if he is in a bad business or not. but you can tell that he doesn't really judge him which is suprising.
I wonder if he will help out Gatsby or not?

GG CH.3

In this chapter he gets invited to one of gatsby's parties and he goes over there. He is very impressed with the amount of food and stuff that he has at his house. He is also impressed that he has a whole orchestra playing in his back yard. He also has lots of liquor for everyone to get drunk. While he is there he finds Jordan so they hang out most of the night. Then they want to try and find gatsby so they start looking for him in their house and they go into the library and find a very drunk man who is very impressed that all of gatsby's books are real. so they keep looking around and they eventually find him inadvertantly. s then they talk a little bit and he talks to jordan alone and she doesn't tell nick what they talk about. then they leave and they find that the drunk library guy has crashed his car. so then they part ways and nick talks about his work and how he does it a lot. then he says that durin g the summer he and jordan start hanging out more and more.

I think that he is a nice guy that doesn't want a lot of attention. He also likes Jordan and he doesn't care about her being dishonest. he says that he really does like her though and i think that she likes him too. I think that he is facinated with gatsby and that he thinks its cool that he has like every thing. He also enjoyed the party and realized how rich gatsby really is.
I wonder what gatsby talked to Jordan about?

GG CH.2

In the begginning of this chapter he starts by describing the valley of ashes and about the train. he explains doctor eckleburg ans how he watches over the valley of ashes. He then informs us that he is going with tom to meet his mistress. So they go to the car shop where she lives with his husband and Tom talks business with him and then when he leaves for a minute they tell each toher that she needs to get on the next train so they can meet and they arrange a meeting place. it also describes her and says that she is like a bigger woman that looks very poor. then they get to NY and they meet up after the train and Mrs. wilson gets a puppy for the apartament i think that she just likes to spend Toms money. Then they go to the apartament and they start drinking and invite the neighbors over and try and get a girl there for Nick. Then they all end up getting drunk and Myrtle starts talking about daisy and tom ends up breaking her nose he says that it is disrespectful. Nick ends up just leaving i think and going to the train station and waiting for a train to come to take him home.

I think that Nick is really not into the whole drinking thing because he says that he hasn't been drunk very much. I also think that he doesn't really like the idea of having a girl come up there basically for him. also he feels very uncomfortable about being with tom and his mistress because daisy is his cousin and he doesn't feel right about being with him. You can tell that he doesn't judge because he doesn't really say anything bad about the valley of ashes. if there is anything bad said it is said by tom.
I wonder if tom will meet back up with Jordan in the next chapter

GG Ch. 1

The first person that we meet in this book is Nick Carraway. He is a young man about 20 years old. He went to fight in the "Great War" which is WWI. He says that he really liked fighting over that and that his life seemed almost boring when he came back. When he gets back he decides to learn to be a bondsman. He was going to get a house with another guy but at the last second the other guy backed out. But he still got the house and he also got a dog. Then he was invited to his cousin Daisy's house because she didn't live far away. So he goes and realizes that Daisy's husband has another woman that he is seeing up in New York. He meets this Jordan Baker girl that i think he has a thing for because he kind of talks a lot about her. Then he goes home and is sitting outside of his house and sees who he thinks to be Mr. Gatsby for the first time.
i think that he is a very good person. One of the things he does is not judge people and i think that that is a very good quality to have. i also think that he likes the Jordan girl because he talks about her and says that he kind of likes her. I think that he doesn't know what to think about his cousin's situation with her husband.