Death of jay gatsby

The death of jay Gatsby confirms what we already knew. The American dream is nothing but the hope sustained for the hopeless.

Jay Gatsby was never accepted by the east egg people because they were old money – meaning that they were more responsible for their wealth and did not throw it around, and he was the new money, meaning he was more eager to show off the fact that he was rich. Daisy and Tom and those type of people did not understand him because they did not work for their money, like he did. They take advantage of his big parties but they do not accept him. He worked very hard to be accepted, and be part of the east egg way of living, however his death is the proof that he never achieved this as even people who he thought he was close to, such as Klipspringer, which almost lived in Gatsby’s house disappears when he hears that Gatsby dies, not caring less. Even Daisy who was once in love with Gatsby left East egg, when she was even the reason he died. None of this his supposed friends showed up at his funeral. Gatsby tried hard his whole life to earn and be part of the American dream, to be left with one person that actually cared about his death, besides his father. His death shows us that, even though he worked hard, made money and threw glamorous parties to make other people happy, he still ended up dying with only real friend, and did not even get what he wanted the most, which was Daisy.