understand each other, “There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together” (101). Tom is very self-centered and old fashion but he cheated on his wife with some other woman who was later killed by Daisy. Later, Tom goes to the husband of the woman killed and tells him that Gatsby was the one who killed her because he was the driving. During the last few pages of the novel, the man that Tom talked to goes and kills himself and Gatsby because he could stand to live without his wife. These events showed how Fitzgerald can make us understand how ruthless Daisy and Tom were. “So, I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight-watching over nothing.” (101). By this point of the novel, Gatsby could not see that his love for Daisy was killing him literally and figuratively. In just minutes, everything he worked so hard to achieve was all gone. At the end of the story, Nick who became Gatsby’s best friend tries to bring people to Gatsby funeral but no one shows up only his father. This shows that most of the people who came to his parties were only there to have fun. No one really cared about who Gatsby really was. Fitzgerald does a decent job showing how this is the life we live in. Not that many people care about anyone they just show up to events to show off.

Throughout the novel, the idea of the American Dream is shown by all the dishonesty in privacy of the characters. Fitzgerald was one of the most true dreamers in the 20s because he could portray and bring alive this idea that anyone could become rich but at the same time he was able to be realistic and show how they got rich. Also he was able to show that having a lot of money does not mean you are happy. “Fitzgerald embodied in his tissues and nervous system the fluid polarities of American experiences: success and failure, illusion and disillusion, dream and nightmare.” (Callahan John, pp.1). The search of happiness for Gatsby was to go back with Daisy because he thought this was his destiny. Gatsby couldn’t see the reality of his actions, he achieved the American Dream but he lost everything because of his obsession for Daisy. He never really knew what he had achieved in his life until he was all taken away from him because of his love to some woman. Gatsby never understood what they really could do to him because he never realized what the people in