The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald - 1562 Words

A man, who bases his future objectives on past experiences, will end up destroying their own dreams. The Roaring Twenties a time of partying, spending money, and lavish life where anybody and everybody was having the best time of their lives. An example of these extravagant times was in the the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Who shows that money can corrupt a person s relationship with others. Set in Long Island a town called West Egg in the 1920s, the novel The Great Gatsby shows how relationships have a big meaning in what people s lives are really about. It turns the characters into only caring about money and their social status. Money controls their every move, and with just a glimpse into the life of luxury they†¦show more content†¦Like anybody we always want to be by the most popular and rich people and that s how people were towards Jay Gatsby. However Nick Carraway saw different in him. He moved into West Egg, and the two linked. Not because Jay Gats by was rich, because they both saw ways they could help each other. Nick started to figure out how Gatsby wasn’t the man he and others talked about and didn t have the most luxurious past as many people thought. â€Å"Gatsby was born James Gatz on a North Dakota farm, and though he attended college at St. Olaf’s in Minnesota, he dropped out after two weeks, loathing the humiliating janitorial work by means of which he paid his tuition. He worked on Lake Superior the next summer fishing for salmon and digging for clams† (Fitzgerald 103). Figuring this out about Jay Gatsby Nick thought he was still a genuine person although the stuff he has figured out about him. Nick was truly Gatsby’s friend but it was complicated. Jay Gatsby’s true love was Daisy Buchanan and Nick being her cousin Jay Gatsby saw an opportunity to get closer to the love of his life essentially using Nick to get closer to Daisy. Nick saw things in Jay Gatsby that many people didn ’t see in him. because unlike others they were only his friend for money. Like all relationships they must come to an end. Jay Gatsby ended up dieing by getting murdered by Tom