Fitzgerald's Ambition Lead To Death In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby unravels in death and destruction due to one man’s need, for one girl. His admiration and ambition for this girl shows how the American dream can lead to so much havoc. Even though Gatsby has everything he wants, he still has a want for that girl. Fitzgerald does a wonderful job of expressing that through Gatsby and showing how a pursuit of that dream can lead to so much death and destruction. Fitzgerald shows how that American dream demands more than you have and causes harm to Gatsby and people around him. All the events connected well and tied in beautifully with the plot. It affects more than just himself and he was blind to that due to his passion for the American dream. The drama created from Gatsby’s ambition leads to death during a car accident. Fitzgerald writes, “so we drove towards death in the cooling twilight.” This is a good example of foreshadowing being as how it was written before the accident with Myrtle. Daisy wasn’t well to drive because of how worked up she was due to the incident at
Fitzgerald said “Until long after, there was anyone to give it to if it came. I have an idea Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come, or perhaps he no longer cared.” He was referring to Gatsby waiting on a call that he wouldn’t be around to answer. He expresses Gatsby’s death in a very general way and doesn’t give the details, but nonetheless gives the idea of Gatsby being dead. All of the events connected in a way that lead to Gatsby dying at the hand of a confused, revenge filled husband. Gatsby did a lot of things to try and get Daisy and continue his american dream, but they turned on him and played out to his disadvantage. If he never went for Daisy, he would be at home living with so much that he had. He would still be alive. In the end, his American dream demanded more and he asked too much, inevitably killing