Jay Gatsby Chapter 8 Analysis

In chapter 8, Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby as a symbol for the reality of the American Dream with his failure to achieve the goals he had been working towards on his time on West Egg. His first failure occurs at the start of chapter eight when Gatsby gets home after a night of waiting on Daisy. “’Nothing happened,’ he said wanly. ‘I waited, and about four o’clock she came to the window and stood there for a minute and then turned out the light’” (Fitzgerald 147). With this statement, Gatsby is telling Nick the reason for his late arrival home, which as we know, is because he was once again waiting for Daisy to choose him over Tom. This is a failure for Gatsby because once again, he cannot stop trying to get an answer from her whether she wants