Nightmare In The Great Gatsby Essay

The Great Gatsby Essay Imagine if the American dream turned into a nightmare. F. Scott Fitzgerald does this through the point of view of Nick Carraway in his novel, The Great Gatsby. Carraway moves next door to a mansion and is unsure who owns it. Soon after, Carraway is invited to an elaborate party thrown by a man named Gatsby, a man who is only known through rumors, and who also happens to be Carraway’s neighbor. When Carraway and Gatsby become close throughout the story, many secrets are revealed, the biggest, being that Gatsby is in love with Daisy Buchanan, Carraway’s cousin who just so happens to live just across the way in east egg, a community of wealthy sophisticated old money aristocrats. We also find out that Daisy and
At this party we also find out that Daisy’s finger is bruised because of Tom. This idea is solidified when Daisy says,”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”(17). Which indicates that if her daughter was a fool she’d be too naive to understand, for example, that her husband is cheating on her, like with Daisy and Tom. It also shows that Daisy knows about Tom’s affair but she doesn’t plan to do anything about it so she can stick with the money that Tom has. Nick also says, later in the story, “ A week after i left Santa Barbara Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night, and ripped a front wheel off his car. The girl who was with him got into the papers, too, because her arm was broken- she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara Hotel”(77). Which would again prove that Daisy had to know about the affair and again did nothing about it so she could stay with his money. These instances demonstrate the shallow relationship between Tom and Daisy because of her inability to leave