What Is Wrong In The Great Gatsby

Bernie Sanders, a politician, once said, ¨for many, the American Dream has become a nightmare¨. The American Dream was coming true for many in the 1920s, shortly after World War I, and was caused mainly by the country being in an economic boom. The “Jazz Age” was a time when practically everyone believed if they worked hard enough, they would become successful, which at the time meant rich and of high status. Although, this was very flawed and the truth was that being happy was unachievable because they were constantly unsatisfied with their achievements, no matter how successful they truly were. Francis Scott Fitzgerald criticizes the reality of the American Dream in his novel The Great Gatsby. This story is follows the rich Nick Carraway
Camrynn Tanner describes Daisy as “using Gatsby for her own enjoyment, she ends up going back to Tom,” (Tanner). Basically, Tanner believes that Daisy never had any true intentions for commitment to Gatsby. Instead, she just wanted to use him to get back at Tom, who had cheated on her with Myrtle Wilson. When Nick sees Tom and Daisy after they did not attend Gatsby’s funeral, Nick says “they were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money,” (Fitzgerald 137). This shows that Tom and Daisy both had no empathy for other people as long as they could continue living in their leisurely, wealthy lives. Nick also says that they “let other people clean up the mess they had made,” (Fitzgerald 137). This refers to them both showing no sympathy for Gatsby’s heartbreaking end and Daisy persuading to take the fall for her killing Myrtle. Tom and Daisy are both terrible people whose only goal is to get more money and status. They stay together because they are meant together by sharing the same low standards of what is acceptable when treating