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Gatsby is an absolutely tragic figure. In order to be a lover worthy of Daisy and a husband to provide her with the luxury of life, he spent his life trying to get into the upper class, to be rich, polite, and dressed like a gentleman. As a result, he succeeded in becoming one of the richest men in West Egg by means of perseverance and ambition. Although the upper class is extremely xenophobic, Daisy is also very cold, but he did not give up. He even did for his lover on the murder charge. Unfortunately, he waited for Daisy all morning that day, but what finally came before the phone call was the bullet that pierced his chest. At his funeral, almost no one came to mourn, and his lover and dream, Daisy, did not even come to see him, but fled New York first to escape his hit-and-run crime with Tom. In his entire life, he was around his unrealistic illusion, and he will not realize that dream eventually, but he was a tragic protagonist, dying with no friend.

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Doing everything they can to achieve the goal is a lie, it’s not realistic. Due to the corruption and old money, most of them would never achieve their dreams their entire life. When Daisy, Tom, or Jordan mess things up, their family would always make up for them, so that they can hide behind the protection of family’s wealth, fame, and power, and take no responsibilities to their mistakes, while normal people, the lower-class and the middle-class American, have to do anything to get the cake that Daisy only need to move some finger to get. The Gap between rich and poor is getting bigger and bigger, and that will someday crush everyone’s dream. Like the green light in everyone’s heart, it’s their hope and dream, however, the distance is always constant, never being shorter, but sometimes being longer. As Fitzgerald wrote in the end of the book, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. Gatsby beat on with ambition and persistence, however, he couldn’t resist the current.

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Myrtle and George, despite being married for twelve years, are strikingly different people. While Myrtle is outgoing and vivacious, George is shy and bland—in fact, his physical description takes just a couple of sentences while Myrtle has a paragraph-long introduction. Mr. Wilson was a good person, but he did two things wrong which caused his life into trouble: being poor, and pretending to be rich. From the beginning, he couldn’t offer Myrtle the life she wanted, the material life, living in a cute apartment in the rich zone, having a pet, and dressing in beautiful clothes. Unfortunately, he still loves this materialistic woman, who dreamed of being rich someday. When he found that she had a lover outside and was killed by her lover, reeling from his wife's violent death, he was mad and angry, and then made a stupid decision: find the driver of the yellow car and shooted him. His efforts paid off that he found Gatsby, while he’s the wrong guy. At last, he committed suicide after shooting Gatsby.

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The objects of eyes on the cover represent those of J.T. Eckberg on the Valley of Ashes billboard that stared everything under it, like an unbeatable barrier, or a god controlled everything. It symbolized the old money, no matter how hard people worked, they would never reach the top. The irises of these naked women lying in their eyes represent Jay Gatsby's vision and future of Daisy Buchanan that no future they will have. They also represent the old money because the book strips them of their shell and reveals their true nature. Eyes and lips also represent Daisy. Green tears represent the green light that may cause no happy ending. In the end, the blinding lights and signs represented the "Roaring" 20s and Jay Gatsby's big party, just a big game to make Daisy fall in love with him again, while he never succeeded till his death.

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Careless and selfish people

The only two accidents told in the book was because of two ladies, Daisy and Baker. Hit and run might be the most serious accusation among all traffic charges, and Daisy did it. And she showed no regret to it, making Gatsby, her young lover, take the blame with ease. For her, a life worth nothing, because old money's education didn’t tell them that people should take responsibility for their actions. Whereas, their powerful background, their wealthy family, took them over instead so that they could hide behind the protection of their family and never realize that the mistake they made was serious. Same thing happened to Daisy as well as Jordan Baker. Also, they were selfish, like Daisy didn’t care about what if Gatsby took the blame, and like Baker who always assumed that others would  cater to her. Furthermore, even though Gatsby did so much for Daisy, she still didn’t respond to his enthusiasm: the person she used to love, who took the charge of hit and run for her, and who waited all night under her room building.

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None of them knew what love was. For Gatsby, he only loved that illusion: he obsessed with the idea of who he thought Daisy was. Gatsby's dream of love symbolizes the death of love itself. His love towards Daisy and his affinity and admiration of her seems too idealized, and, therefore, futile, and unreal. For Daisy, she loved money more than anything. For Tom, he loved many women, including Daisy and Myrtle, but his love for Daisy was much less than the acquisitiveness for her. Nick was just a bystander: though he was a friend of Gatsby and respected him, he was cold eventually. Nick said that he is kind of into Jordan, but on the other hand, he looked down on her, thinking she was just one of those careless upper-class ladies. In conclusion, no love seems to last forever, not even Gatsby's’. Daisy abandoned her young lover and married Tom; Myrtle cheated on his husband and was the mistress of Tom. Love seems like an unattainable dream: something the characters believe in that never works out.

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No matter how much money Gatsby made or how much effort he made to be an upper-class gentleman, he would never win their respect, and Old money won’t accept new money and look down on them as well. Just like Tom Buchanan, who was born with wealth and fame, Old money are generally arrogant, careless, and the most significant trait, exclusive, even though some of the others were richer than them, like Gatsby, who owned the fanciest mansion in the West Egg. When the lady invited Gatsby to the party, the other two gentlemen showed no patience, and they rode away without waiting for Gatsby for only a few minutes. Fitzgerald criticized that Old money with an ironic tone that the gentlemen who called themselves polite are some hypocrites in fact. Who gave them the superior ability to laugh at people like Gatsby who work hard and earn money, while they make no effort to do it?

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Gatz was a son of poor farmers in the North Dakota farm, while Gatsby, the man he made up, was born in a wealthy family in San Francisco. Gatz studied in formal education, community college, only for 2 weeks, while Gatsby graduated from Oxford. Gatz got his money from working for Dan Cody, which may have involved some illegal business, while Gatsby got it from heritage. Moreover, he made Gatsby up as a War Hero in WWII, while Gatz only fought in WWI. From the time he joined Cody's fleet as a 17-year-old boy, and had helped him faithfully, Gatsby showed his ambition and motivation of joining the upper-class, otherwise, Dan Cody wouldn't have appreciated his work. Moreover, Gatsby was the only one aside from Cody who didn’t obsess over wealth and alcohol, which was the reason why Dan Cody chose to give his heritage to Gatsby, though the money was stolen by the woman. Ambition, motivation, persistence were the only few things that poor boy owned, and Dan Cody gave him the opportunity, he captured it. Though Gatsby might not realize his dream, he was indeed one of the few grassroots rich people at that time, which deserved respect.

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How much Gatsby did for offering Daisy a material life.
After retiring from the army, he started his way to win Daisy back, doing illegal business and moved to West Egg. Here, he hosted a big party welcoming everyone for visiting, hoping Daisy would come someday. Fortunately, though Daisy never came, her cousin, Nick, moved here and was his neighbor, so if Nick invited Daisy for a visit, he could invite her to his mansion by the way, and this did work. His dream came true: Daisy saw him and loved him again. Everything prepared for Daisy in these 5 years, his luxurious mansion, clothes, and the beautiful garden in his backyard, did move Daisy, reminding her young lover, and her love (well, maybe it’s the beautiful clothes that moved her). However, he didn’t consider that he, as a new money, still can’t offer the life Daisy wanted, and his dream may break again, after heard of her marriage. Gatsby was a wretch, his efforts and his nervousness, seen by Nick, were still useless in front of his Venus. The green light would only be a light, but become reality.

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In the end of chapter 1, Fitzgerald wrote of a person standing along the beach and embracing the Green light. Since green is the color of grass and leaves in our culture and world, it symbolizes growth and nature, so that it’s the color that brings Gatsby hope. For Gatsby, he hoped to be Daisy’s lover again and let her love him back. Therefore, he managed to be rich, in order to meet her requirements of material life, and kept working on business, illegal business as well, as long as it could bring his money. All of his passion and interest were for Daisy, his lover. However, from Nick’s point of view, Gatsby had already mad: his hope from having Daisy to get fantasy to reality. His fantasy was everything back to 5 years ago: Daisy was still his innocent lover, and he was still a handsome young boy, which was impossible, due to the marriage, to the daughter, and to the change of Daisy, being materialistic, so Nick, as Gatsby’s new friend, wanted to stop him for being so ridiculous, which didn’t work, however, that Gatsby’s unrealistic dream still rooted in his heart.

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All shall be well, Jack shall not have Jill

The huge contrast between Daisy’s behavior before and after marriage, as Jordan's memories, tell, Gatsby and Daisy, used to be in love five years ago, however, she married Tom Buchanan right next year, showed that Daisy wasn't an emotional person, but a material lady, that she couldn’t give up her luxurious life given by her husband, so she forced herself to love Tom, as Jordan seen in Santa Barbara, being a nice wife and then gave birth to Tom and her Daughter. Nonetheless, according to chapter 2, though she knew that Tom had already had a mistress, maybe more in other places, Daisy still chose to live with Tom, which all showed that the priority of money was much more important than her lover, her daughter, and even her feelings. In contrast to Gatsby, who moved to West Egg and hosted a huge party that welcomed everyone, wishing someday Daisy would come. For him, Daisy was on the Top priority: love was much more important than money. However, the significant difference between their values might not help Gatsby get his lover back. As long as Tom kept his wealth, Daisy won’t leave him.

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According to the information given by Gatsby, Mr. Wolfsheim was a local villain, also known as the person who Illegally fixed a baseball league, which showed that he wasn’t an honest business man, in other words, a man who did many illegal things. As one of his best friend, Gatsby was obviously same kind of  person who did illegal business for money as Mr. Wolfsheim, unlike the “Gatsby” that Gatsby wanted to show to the public, was the old rich, who had a wealthy and powerful background and graduated from a prestigious university. From the place he lived, the West Egg, we can tell that Gatsby was new money, and those old moneys looked down on him. Besides, his lies were easily exposed. For example, from the description of his experience in Oxford which wasn’t clear. Also, from the white card he gave to the police, which was given by the chief of police who he had helped before, it showed that he must do something illegal, otherwise, how could a chief give the passport to him, and Christmas card as well.

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Chapter 3: A strange party and a strange host

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Chapter 3: A strange party and a strange host

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I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited—they went there. They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island and somehow they ended up at Gatsby's door. Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks. Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.

Gatsby's party is extremely luxurious: guests marvel over his Rolls-Royce, his swimming pool, his beach, crates of fresh oranges and lemons, buffet tents in the gardens overflowing with a feast, and a live orchestra playing under the stars, and unbelievably, was open to everyone who came here: numerous guests came here, and enjoyed the food and services, without any payment, while they were looking down upon Gatsby, considering him a spy of Germany, or a murderer when knowing little about him.

As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

Maybe Gatsby was a generous host and wanted to show his wealth and justify slander of him? No, he was strange, too, invisibly, acting like he was a guest and no one knew that he was the host Gatsby, even Nick didn't know that. Besides, he didn't care about his fame, which was extremely terrible. I wondered his purposes of hosting such parties.

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Jordan was a selfish woman who only cares about her feelings and expects others to cater to her, just like Charlie Wentworth, who knew he won't get in trouble because he's a higher-class member and his parents had the wealth and power to make him not guilty, though this wealthy teen who was drunk driving had hit people and left them badly injured.

"You're a rotten driver," I protested. "Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn't to drive at all."
"I am careful."
"No, you're not."
"Well, other people are," she said lightly.
"What's that got to do with it?"
"They'll keep out of my way," she insisted. "It takes two to make an accident."
"Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself."
"I hope I never will," she answered. "I hate careless people. That's why I like you."

Jordan's behavior reflects that she's a definite higher-class: no sympathy for other people and the opinion of being absolutely unpunished. I can easily predict that if one day she hit someone, even though it is her fault, she will blame the person who was hit and succeed in getting away with the punishment because this had happened numerous times from her youth to adulthood, her family would take care of anything.

At her first big golf tournament there was a row that nearly reached the newspapers—a suggestion that she had moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi-final round. The thing approached the proportions of a scandal—then died away. A caddy retracted his statement and the only other witness admitted that he might have been mistaken. The incident and the name had remained together in my mind.

She's also a cheater. As an athlete, she violated the most basic of rules, no cheats, and used her family power to cover it up: caddy retracted and the witness denies the statement.

As Nick describe, Jordan wasn't a smart girl and had a lot of faults, careless and cheating, however, her family took care of anything, and that's higher-class, helping each other cover up their mistakes. That's the reason why Jordan has no sympathy for others: what she had done that hurts people wouldn't gain any punishment. However, when the cost of being careless and cheating reduced to zero, she would consider them a matter of course, leading to more mistakes and troubles.

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Chapter 2: Vain, but not worthy of that wealthy life

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Chapter 2: Vain, but not worthy of that wealthy life

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Without doubt, Mrs. Wilson, Tom's mistress, was a material girl.

"I married him because I thought he was a gentleman," she said finally. "I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe."

"The only crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out. She looked around to see who was listening: " 'Oh, is that your suit?' I said. 'This is the first I ever heard about it.' But I gave it to him and then I lay down and cried to beat the band all afternoon."

Her first man, Mr. Wilson, pretend that he was rich, dressing in nice clothes, according to her sister, Catherine, which was borrowed from others. Poor is the only mistake and reason that Myrtle didn't like her husband. According to her words, Mr. Wilson pretend to be like a gentlemen, however, her standard for gentle is whether they have money, very shallow.

Her second man, her lover, Tom Buchanan, was an extreme wealthy person, which was mentioned in my previous blog, Tom Buchanan- a rich and grumpy player, and she love him, because he can offer her material life.

"I like your dress," remarked Mrs. McKee, "I think it's adorable."
Mrs. Wilson rejected the compliment by raising her eyebrow in disdain.
"It's just a crazy old thing," she said. "I just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like."

Also, the great difference of her living in Mr. Wilson's house and Tom's apartment reveled her dream of being a higher-class woman, while she acted just like a upstart, showing off and doing parodies.

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Gatsby and Nick live in West egg; Mr. Buchanan and Daisy live in East egg
Gatsby, as far as Nick's know, was a wealthy person but seems to make money in a dishonest way. He's a new rich: his wealth was earned by himself.
Mr. Buchanan was an extremely rich person, who got his money from his family so he's an old rich, living in East egg.
In conclusion, residents in the west egg were new rich, who earn money from themselves., while residents in the East egg were old rich, who earn money from an inheritance.
Also, East egg was more fashionable, probably because of old rich is more aesthetic.

Second, the difference between Vally of Ashes and New York is easy to tell: Vally of Ashes is poor and full of ashes, while New York is rich and clean. Comparing to Mrs. Wilson and Mr. Wilson who live in Vally of Ashes and live poorly, Nick and Tom are living luxurious lives, where have beaches, parties, gardens, pools, etc.

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In chapter one, Gatsby only appeared for 3 times: as Nick's neighbor, in Becker's words which shocked Daisy, and being weird at the end of the chapter.

The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby’s mansion.

As Nick's neighbor, unlike Nick who live in a small house, Gatsby was rich and owns  the biggest and the most luxurious mansion in "the West Egg."

“You live in West Egg,” she remarked contemptuously. “I know somebody there.”
“I don’t know a single—”
“You must know Gatsby.”
“Gatsby?” demanded Daisy. “What Gatsby?”

Becker mentioned Gatsby with a contempt voice, which was contradict to his statue of a wealthy man. Even stranger, even Daisy knew Gatsby, and she seemed to be familiar with him, while she only move to here for only 3 months. I would make a suspicion that it must be something happened between them.

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Nick's impression of Tom Buchanan:

For instance, he’d brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest. It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that.

According to the author's words, Tom was not only a successful football player but also in an enormously wealthy family. Ever since he was a child, he has been living in a luxurious environment, which is why he is arrogant and thinks highly of himself.

Daisy's impression of her husband Tom:

“It’ll show you how I’ve gotten to feel about—things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘All right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’
“You see I think everything’s terrible anyhow,” she went on in a convinced way. “Everybody thinks so—the most advanced people. And I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.” Her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like Tom’s, and she laughed with thrilling scorn. “Sophisticated—God, I’m sophisticated!”

Daisy told Nick what happened when her daughter was born, and her reaction as well. She felt lonely and abandoned about her husband's ruthlessness, for he left as soon as his daughter was born. Also, according to Baker's words, it's because that Tom had a woman in New York. Unfortunately, Daisy was told that it was a girl, driving her into a greater upset. There's a contradiction between what she wanted her daughter to be like and what she thought she is now, between foolish and sophisticated: she didn't want her daughter to be like her.

Red stands for Tom Buchanan
When we think of Red, Red always represents Danger, Violence, and Love.
His house's theme colors are Red and White, which represent aggressive Tom and innocent Daisy. With an Aggressive look, muscles, and paternal contempt attitude to everyone, Tom's character tended to be more arrogant, as Nick said, was hated by men, however, he does have every right to be dangerous, for he was a successful football player and had an extraordinarily wealthy family as a backup.
Also, according to Becker's words and Nick's idea, he was a playboy, without doubt, having tons of love to give. That New York woman wouldn't be the only one, which hurts Daisy much, it's still unclear why Buchanan denied that criticism.