The Great Gatsby Destruction

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald describes numerous messages that are vital to the novel. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is this mysterious character that spends his entire life trying to win over the love of his life Daisy Fay. But, Gatsby fails and his dreams are crushed which leads to a series of disastrous events. Because of characters’ tragic deaths, Fitzgerald makes it prominent that the American Dream is unachievable and it can ultimately lead to one’s destruction. Jay Gatsby’s American Dream is well known throughout the novel because Fitzgerald makes it clear that all Gatsby desires is Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby and Daisy live across the bay from each other, but they are in two completely different worlds. Before Gatsby
The object that symbolizes Gatsby’s dream is the Green Light on Daisy’s dock across the bay. “Daisy was so close that the green light on the dock was only a light” (Fitzgerald 93). When Gatsby finally thought that he had Daisy in his grasp, the green light was no longer something he strove to achieve, it was only a light across the bay. But, “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. He did not know that it was already behind him…” (Fitzgerald 180). Gatsby tried to win Daisy over by inviting her to his house and waiting outside her house to make sure everything is okay with her and Tom but she did nothing and let him wait. Gatsby expresses to Nick, “I waited, and about four o’clock she came to the window and stood there for a minute and then turned out the light” (Fitzgerald 147). Daisy ignoring Gatsby symbolizes his dream fading away gradually. Gatsby becomes engulfed with getting Daisy back that it causes him to be shot by George Wilson. While Daisy and Gatsby were driving home from New York, Daisy hits Myrtle, Mr. Wilson's wife, and keeps on driving. Mr. Wilson comes to the conclusion that it was Gatsby that took the love of his wife away and shot