Jay Gatsby Downfall

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The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, had a vision of himself and Daisy living in a perfect world, in which lead him to destroy his own life. F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells a story about how people can rise up, and fall again. Gatsby was born with nothing, grew up to be wealthy and fell with nothing and no one besides him. Jay Gatsby whose real name was James Gatz, fell in love with Daisy before he went into the war, but when he went back, he found out that she had married Tom Buchanan and had a child. He then thought to fall back in love with her and be with her.
Jay Gatsby is wealthy man who is misled and fake.He is misled because he believes that Daisy never loved Tom or at some point she did but not anymore. “Even alone I can’t say I never loved Tom,” said Daisy. Gatsby made a different life of his own to attract Daisy. He changed his name at the age …show more content…

He may have a lot of people at his parties but no one did not know who he was. Nick was one of many people at the party, he said “... the two or three people I asked about his whereabouts stared at me in a amazed way.” He makes no effort of getting to know anyone. Therefore, he is a shy guy who a lot of people use him for his parties but are not actually friends with him. He didn't really care if he had any friends the most he cared about is getting Daisy back, but he was still shy.
Gatsby is a mysterious character, he appears and disappears out of nowhere. There are a lot of rumors of Gatsby. He said that he went to oxford, he killed a man, and that he is a german spy. No one knows because he is not relevant to anyone.”The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn’t any use, nobody came,” said Nick. Nobody didn’t know who Jay Gatsby was and therefore he was a mysterious man who no one went to his funeral. Everyone who went to all his parties are very messed up because they just used him for his

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