Conflict In The Great Gatsby Essay

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a short novel about Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, who moves to New York. He rents a house on the island of West Egg, which is the poor side of the bay and it’s across from East Egg, which is the rich side of the bay. Nick’s neighbor is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in an enormous mansion and throws legendary parties. No one truly knows the truth about who Jay Gatsby is. One evening, Nick goes to East Egg to have dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom. Nick finds out that Tom has another woman in his life named Myrtle. Nick gets invited to Gatsby’s party and at the party, he meets Gatsby. Later, they become good friends. Nick learns that Gatsby has been

It is an external conflict and internal conflict between characters and their feelings for each other. Daisy loves Gatsby, but also doesn’t want to leave Tom because she loves him too. Gatsby can’t forget about Daisy even after knowing that she is married to Tom because he is madly in love with her. Tom cannot commit to one woman, he wants Daisy and Myrtle. Daisy knows that Myrtle is Tom’s mistress. One night, Daisy is drunk driving and while she is driving, she hits Myrtle with her car and doesn 't even stop. Due to this incident, Gatsby takes the blame and tells everyone that he was driving, and he killed Myrtle. Furthermore, when Tom attends the party with Myrtle, he “[breaks Myrtle’s] nose” (Fitzgerald, 41) because she kept saying Daisy’s name in jealousy. Tom is confused because he has feelings for Myrtle; however, he also loves his wife Daisy and she has been with him for a long time. Tom feels jealousy when he finds out about Daisy and Gatsby’s affair; he believes that Daisy will leave him for Gatsby. Yet again, the act of dishonesty is expressed throughout the novel through the different extramarital affairs taking

The East Egg is considered the ‘old’ wealth while the West Egg is the ‘new’ wealth. Gatsby and Nick live in the West Egg and Daisy and Tom live in the East Egg. Gatsby lives in an enormous mansion by himself with some servants and his mansion resembles “some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side…a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden” (Fitzgerald, 9), displaying the luxurious lifestyle Gatsby lives in the West Egg. To show off his wealth, he throws extravagant parties every week for people he doesn’t even know. On the other hand, the East Egg is described as the old decency and lives a grace lifestyle. The East Egg is represented by Daisy and Tom’s house, which had “a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house” with a sense of elegance as “[a] breeze blew through the room… making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea” (Fitzgerald, 12) representing the real and clever minds of the old decency, who were realistic with their choices regarding money. Fitzgerald describes the decline of morals and social norms, furthermore explains the decline of the American