Examples Of Hard Work In The Great Gatsby

Does Hard Work Really Pay Off? Imagine working majority of your life to get one thing and in the end you end up losing it? In the novel The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald the main character Jay Gatsby experiences this disappointment. He spends his time as a young man building himself up to impress and win back the woman he is in love with to only, in the end, do it for nothing. The author takes us through Gatsby’s journey only for it to end opposite of what readers wanted. He acquired millions, bought a house, that was more like a castle, and then threw parties hoping one day that she would show up. He successfully gets her attention, gets her back partially, then loses her to her husband because her husband is the status quo

Before marrying Tom, Daisy and Gatsby were in love but he ended up going to war then to Oxford. Eventually she got tired of waiting so she married Tom for financial and social security, and she stays with him even though he has had many affairs that she knows about. Throughout the novel we learn that Tom has been having affairs since the beginning of their marriage, “Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road… The girl who was with him got into the papers too… she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara Hotel.” (Fitzgerald 82) They went to Santa Barbara for their honeymoon, not even a year into the marriage Tom was cheating and Daisy stayed. In addition to cheating, Tom was nowhere to be found after the birth of his daughter. It is possible that he was with another woman but either way Daisy was upset by this event, she says, “Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where… I asked the nurse if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl… I wept… I said, “I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool.” (Fitzgerald 21) Since Tom was not present for the birth of their child, Daisy associates her daughter with abandonment and hopes her daughter will accept the idea that ignorance is bliss, which is disturbing. Tom Cheats on Daisy so much that he feels it is ok to introduce Daisy’s cousin, Nick, to his mistress. He invites Nick to go to the City but halfway from

Jordan knew who Gatsby was because ,while they were young, Daisy was the girl to marry. Young military officers tried to impress her but only Gatsby won her over, though it sounds like she won him over. He talks about the first time he and Daisy got intimate, “He knew that when he kissed this girl, … his mind would never romp again like the Mind of God. So he waited, listened for a moment longer… Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch… the incarnation was complete.” (Fitzgerald 117) The moment Gatsby took before kissing Daisy was nearly vowing himself to her at whatever it takes. He began to host extraordinary parties hoping one day, either Daisy or someone who knew her would wander into his hotel sized home. As a result of the close living proximity, Nick became a direct line from Gatsby to Daisy. Nick’s involvement in the rekindling of Daisy and Gatsby is when he says, “I’m going to call up Daisy tomorrow and invite her over here to tea.” (Fitzgerald 87) This simple task is the favor that Gatsby wants from Nick, and when he agrees to it, he knows there is no backing out. Ultimately the most blood boiling thing about the Buchanans is the fact that after all the conflicts caused ,mainly, by them they just up and leave like nothing happened. Almost ironically they jump town after both of their paramours are killed. It is angering to think that after they used these people,