Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
Although Jay Gatsby is a fairly successful character in the novel The Great Gatzby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he failed miserably at the end due to his obsession for Daisy. In Gatsby’s eyes, he sees Daisy as the love of his life and is determined to be with her no matter what cost. His desire for Daisy ultimately caused him to lose his life towards the end of the novel. Everyone has his/her own flaws; this is Gatsby’s most fatal one. This lust he has for Daisy is considered a tragic flaw because it caused him to lose his morality, his reputation, and even his life.
The first value Gatsby loses upon loving Daisy is his morality. Gatsby began to associate with criminals just to make enough money so he could satisfy Daisy’s need for material possessions. Gatsby was once a bright man who had some education and a chance at an admirable future after following Dan Cody, a millionaire for several years. Although he didn’t receive much money after Dan Cody’s death, he had enough real life education to live his life out happily, but instead, he chose to please Daisy and worked with criminals. He then took it a step further and began hosting parties for classless uneducated people every week in hopes of Daisy chancing upon it. In this, he nearly lost all sense of what to do with his life besides pursuing Daisy. Rather than doing something meaningful with his life, he chose to drown himself in a sea of people that he doesn’t even know. Daisy not only takes away his morality and meaning of life, but also his reputation.
Gatsby’s pursuit for Daisy has lost everyone’s respect for him. We can see that Gatsby’s has a bad reputation because everyone at his parties seems to gossip behind his back. Gatsby hosted innumerable amounts of parties at his house because he wants to meet Daisy; because of this many people misjudged him and spread obnoxious rumors about him. Shallow people also received a dreadful image of...
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