The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby was a very interesting tale about one man, finding truth in his life. Nick had moved east from his home in the Midwest to embark on a new beginning. Upon his settling, he is reunited with his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan. The couple's relationship was very unhealthy, but they simply did nothing about it. Though there once was a burning fire, now their relationship lay in ashes. I can tell this because if Daisy and Gatsby were so in love, that she was willing to forget about him to marry Tom, than the love they shared must be stronger than that of the bond between her and Jay.

I think that Nick moving to the east taught him a very valuable lesson. People who have a higher rank on the financial ladder tend to use their money as a rebound or a getaway from what they put up with to attain their wealth. Such as Tom and Daisy. The two people who are well over the status of being financially stable, but deep down inside they were both insecure about themselves and each other. Therefore they delve themselves into infidelity and other unmoral things. Another example of this idea is Jay Gatsby. He dropped out of college because he could not withstand the humiliation of working at the school as a janitor to pay his tuition, and went on to pursue a luxurious lifestyle that was introduced to him by Dan Cody. Now, he is one of the most wealthy men in the area. He throws these highly lavished parties in which he barely even attends. But he throws them to attempt to lure his sweetheart Daisy back to him. At the very beginning of the book, Nick was telling us how his father had taught him to never judge people because they might not have gotten the privileges he had. Nick proves that he abides by this idea because he does not judge Tom for cheating on Daisy, or judging Daisy for leaving Jay for Tom, or Judging Gatsby for trying to win his love back from Tom with his money. This, I feel is honorable.

To conclude, The Great Gatsby was a very good book, and i recommend it to anyone who wishes to read a good story.