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I believe what the book is saying is that the lifestyle of the rich and famous is not always the lifestyle that one needs. The book says that even though Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy have many material things in their life. Their lives are not healthy, by any means, they are all blinded by money. Gatsby is a person who has gained his money by doing things unethical and illegal, such as bootlegging. He only sees one thing in his mind and uses people like Nick to get what he wants

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Daisy contradicts herself constantly. Mostly it occurs when she acts mad at Tom for cheating on her but then goes and cheats on him. This contradiction is accentuated by the fact that when she is "confiding" in Nick (AKA whining to him) Nick seems to think she comes off as insincere. This insincerity is an issue when you decide to wonder why. The most obvious solution is that she isn't actually mad or sad she just wishes Tom would love her because they are in a "secret society" together.

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All of the characters in this book are presented with flaws, and I think Fitzgerald did this not to make us hate all of the characters but instead to present a realistic story. In order to make likable characters, authors often hide or don’t include their flaws. Instead, Fitzgerald establishes flaws in even Nick, who I think is a tolerable character, the only difference is that he recognizes those flaws and at the end of the book and attempts to clean up messes made as a result of those flaws.

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Although Tom was cheating on Daisy, I think he still cared about her and what she did. He was threatened by Gatsby because he didn't want Gatsby to take Daisy away from him. If Tom didn't care about Daisy, then he wouldn't have cared that she was having an affair with Gatsby. However, I also think Tom didn't want Daisy to do the same thing he was doing because he wanted to have authority over her. But if he didn't care about her, he also wouldn't care about having authority over Daisy and could've just left. I don't think it's fair to say that Tom never cared about Daisy because he was cheating on her.

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For the last part i wanted to talk about how women were seen as something more of a keepsake or object than a human being that is to be respected and treated fair. Many times women were treated or even talk to or about in a way that makes them an object or something of lesser importance than a male. Daisy was treated this way by how Tom and Gatsby referred to her at different times in the book.

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Why couldn’t Gatsby do his own dirty work to see Daisy? Why couldn’t Gatsby throw a tea party and himself invite Daisy? I get that he felt he’d have a higher chance of her appearance, if Nick invited her and had the party because they're cousins. Then have the tea party at Gatsby’s mansion and Nick bring her. I feel as Nick just did as Gatsby ordered, while feeling he couldn’t say no to him. If Gatsby had the guts to call Daisy earlier, instead of Nick doing it for him. I think they could have seen each other way earlier and it possibly would have changed the outcome of the story.

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Nick is the only redeemable and respectable character in this story in my opinion. Of all the main characters in this book (Daisy, Tom, Nick and Gatsby) Nick is the only one to ever take care of the problems he causes. He is the only one of the main characters that shows up to Gatsby's funeral, and he even went so far as to plan his funeral even though  Gatsby had used him for his personal gain. At the end of the book Nick even fixed all of his problems with Jordan before up and leaving like Tom and Daisy did.

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Nick’s character is the most interesting in this whole book because he has the conflicting principles and he is always thinking more about these events, than any other character in this book. The author of “The Great Gatsby” (F. Scott Fitzgerald) gave Nick the most depth probably because he’s the character that the reader spends the most time with. You can’t have the narrator of the book just be a straight laced good person. The critiques of Nick are all valid but Fitzgerald knows their valid.

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I think Tom is smarter than people give him credit for. The way he exposes Gatsby was smart and I think he was the smartest person in the room at the time. He's obviously no genius and oblivious at times but I think it is unfair to call him "stupid". I still think, however, that he is selfish guy that doesn't care about ruining others.

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Gatsby befriends Nick initially because of his relationship with daisy, however it seems as though Gatsby enjoys Nick which is interesting based on the fact that he doesn’t really have close company besides his servants. However, the closeness of the two is not Gatsby’s doing at all. Their relationship may be due to the fact that Nick is utterly intrigued by Gatsby, as Nick seems to act like he is only intrigued by the exotic traits of Gatsby, Nick truly likes him. Their relationship is unique in the sense that Gatsby has not had a friend like Nick.

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The eyes of Doctor T.J.  Eckleburg as an advertisement is symbolic of a capitalistic lifestyle, and the characters in the story clearly worship their money. When George Wilson is referencing these eyes, he is also referencing God. There is this idea that the through the choices they are making, the characters in the story are creating their fates through their own, albeit poor, choices. Through the replacement of religion with money and the lifestyles demonstrated in the story, Fitzgerald creates a story in which morality seems to be no longer questioned.

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If you look at Gatsby's life, everything is done for the hope of ending up with Daisy. He comes back from the war, and buys a mansion, and hosts parties where people don't even know his name, just for the hope that she will show up. Daisy being a married woman does not stop him from trying to pursue her, everything he does is for her, he doesn't try to get someone else, he only wants Daisy.

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Daisy is such a stupid, black hole, embarrassment to females everywhere. ‘Oh poor me I’m being cheated on in a consensual relationship that I have the money and position in society to leave but I’m too weak and spineless.’ Daisy uses everything that happens to her in order to victimize herself and gain sympathy and attention. There is nothing honorable in manipulating problems you've caused, or allowed to happen, in order to make yourself look like the victim.

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Throughout this story Daisy constantly plays the victim in scenarios like the beginning scene with Nick and at Gatsby's party. She constantly talks about how bad her life is because her husband is a cheater and a terrible human being. However, after confiding in Nick about how hard her life is because of Tom's affairs she smirks, and to make things worse later on she is in an affair as well the very thing she is mad about Tom having. Then later on after the confrontation scene in Tom's apartment she then wants to leave with Tom the "horrible" man that she can't stand.

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Gatsby and Daisy would have never ended up in the end, even if he didn't died. Gatsby loves Daisy in a way that he built up his entire life for her attention and favor but Daisy doesn't share the same intensity of live that Gatsby has. Gatsby loves what Daisy represents and one could say he was a bit obsessive but even showering her in love she was never going to leave her lifestyle for him. She would still be with Tom although he is cheating on her. In the end, Gatsby will realize that his “green light” was just an unattainable dream that he could never complete.

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The switching of the vehicles before the major conflict of the book

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The switching of the vehicles before the major conflict of the book

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I understand that a book, such as The Great Gatsby, needs to be able to set up the major conflict in which many of the characters are finally allowed to express their feelings. However, I don't think, even 100 years ago, that someone (Gatsby) who is having affair with another person (Daisy) would let the “cheated on” person (Tom) drive their own car, and vice versa. It bewilders me. If I was in Gatsby’s mind, I would have completely said no. There’s no need to switch cars, especially when both of the original drivers are there with their own vehicles. I think Tom could have been setting up Gatsby as to mock him in his own vehicle with everyone else, but after Gatsby refuses, I don't see any need to have the characters go into the vehicles the way that they did other than "this is how the book needs to be set up."

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Tom and Daisy are the same type of people. They both believe they can do whatever they want, while they’re making a mess of everyone else’s lives, and at the end of the day they don’t care about what damage they have done. They retreat back into their money, without feeling any remorse for what they have done. Tom and Daisy let good people clean up the messes they have caused, while they continue to be awful people and do nothing but damage.

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In the novel “The Great Gatsby”, Daisy and Jordan’s relationship doesn’t seem very genuine. I believe that this is partially because the women are in the upper class, and they are friends because they are in similar rich lifestyles. The upper class I feel like, especially in this instance, doesn’t take relationships wholeheartedly, but it is more about relationships of convenience. In addition to this, Jordan is known to be dishonest, so most likely she is “lying” about her friendship with Daisy as well.