C.+Gatsby+Essay

Dale Johnson 11/17/10   Bell 1a

“Americans have always believed in possibilities. And they have consistently said over time that they can start poor in this country and become rich.” //The Great Gatsby// proves that. One of the characters called Gatsby was poor and had nothing. Now he lives in a big house by the water. Gatsby started out poor and became rich. He believed in his possibilities, and never gave up. So there are possibilities. Gatsby was a poor boy growing up and daisy was a rich girl that liked guys with lots of money ,but Gatsby did not give up because of that. When they got together finally Gatsby had to leave for the war. Which meant he had to leave her behind? She was hurt, so she started dating all of these guys. Later that year she got married to tom and had a kid. Years pasted and Gatsby got out of the war finally. When he made it back he wanted to achieve his dream by getting daisy into his life again. He heard that she got married to a rich man named tom. Gatsby did not let this stop him from achieving his dream. So he picked up some jobs and money a lot off of them. Then all of sudden he become super rich at bootlegging and finally decided that now is the time to get daisy back. So he moved into a big house right in front of daisy’s house to show off his money. Daisy saw his big house and fell back in love with him. One day as Tom, Gatsby, Jordan, Nick, and Daisy went into town. On the way back Daisy hit a girl named Myrtle. Gatsby did not want Daisy to get into trouble. So Gatsby took the blame for it. Myrtle’s husband was very upset about all of this so he went to Gatsby house and killed him. So Gatsby did not get to achieve his American dream, but also did not give up on it.