Unattainable Things in Great Gatsby

The roaring twenties. Cars were the things to have and a party was the place to be. Everybody wanted something. F. Scott Fitzgerald's book, The Great Gatsby, describes the events that happen to eight people during the summer of 1922. In the book, people went from west to east because something they desired was in the east; unfortunately

in the end those 'somethings' were unattainable.

...I decided to go east and learn the

bond business. Everybody I knew was

in the bond business so I supposed it

could support one more single man. All

my aunts and uncles talked it over as

if they were choosing a prep school

for me...

Nick went to the east to make money. He was from the midwest, and even though his family was doing pretty well in the money department, Nick wanted to make his own money. By going from the midwest to the east, Fitzgerald shows Nick's desire to have more money. After spending the summer in the east and seeing how money affects people, he decides to go back west.

I see now that this has been a

story of the west, after all-Tom

and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and

I, were all westerners and and

perhaps we possessed some deficiency

in common which made us subtly

unadaptable to eastern life.

In other words, after finding out what the east was really like, Nick lost his

interest in being in the east and returned to the west.

Gatsby came east looking for another type of money - Daisy. Gatsby and

Daisy had last seen each other about five years before, when they were dating.

Then Gatsby had to go to war. While he was away in war, Daisy met Tom and then

married Tom. Daisy had always been rich and thought that in order to get Daisy

back, he need to have money and be able to give Daisy anything she wanted. He

found out that Daisy was in the east and went to go try to get her back.

...I thought of Gatsby's wonder when

he first picked out the green light

at the end of Daisy's dock. He had

come a long way to this blue lawn and

his dream must have seemed so close

that he could hardly fail to grasp it.

What was never realized by Gatsby was that he could never have Daisy again. He

just couldn't accept it.

[Gatsby said] "...Just tell him the

truth-that you never loved him-and

it's all wiped out forever."

..."Oh, you want too much!" she

cried to Gatsby..."I did love him

once-but I loved you too."

Gatsby's eyes opened and closed.

"You loved me?" he repeated.