The Great Gatsby: Nobody Is Really Happy

Part I of Essay
The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a wonderful model to show that rich people do not live the great “life” that most people assume they do. Throughout the novel, many of the characters possess a good fortune and live rather extravagant lives. On the contrar ....

Part II of Essay
.... brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten…(39,40) Gatsby did all of this for a woman he knew years ago. “…he half expected her [the woman he loved] to wander into one of his parties, some night.” (80) Finally, he arranged to meet this woman, named Daisy, at his neighbor’s house next door. They were excited to see each other again for it had been almost five years. Later in the novel, Fitzgerald explains that Gatsby had bought this mansion which was right across the bay from Daisy just so he ....