Great Gatsby HELP

I have to disagree as The Great Gatsby is a "Great" book. I feel that the messages put across in the book are very beneficial as they highlight to the reader how the failure of the American dream affected everyone. The themes of the hedonism of the rich, show that the lower classes are paying for the sins that were actually committed by the higher classes and the lower class people - whom live in the valley of ashes- were actually the people who lived the better lifestyle as they didn't has to worry about any hedonism. This is all told in a story about a man who has endless passion to achieve his goals and this is why Nick looks up to him, not the fact that he is gay as some readers think (this is only an image created my the more immature readers).

I think there is not one main villain but F. Scott Fitzgerald wants the reader to understand that everyone who led the hedonistic lifestyle was a villain. Tom and Daisy can be called villains because they do not appreciate how much they affect the people around them with their reckless lifestyle.

Winston xxx

Tom is the real villain as he is disloyal and untrustworthy. However, this is typical of the corruption at the time. Having affairs was commonplace. Gatsby was a gangster, bootlegging was frowned upon despite the fact everybody drinks. This makes Gatsby seem villainous when Tom is the real villain. This is how in my opinion Gatsby is brutally shot at the end.

i also dislike this book. I have no specific reason for this argument i just found the text boring and uninteresting. I am sure this is a great book if u like it but it did not appeal to me! :flare: x

There is no one main villain, but a conglomerate of them.

Gatsby is a villain but because he doesnt affect others but lets them use his house and cars for parties etc he can be considered a minor villain, compared to other folk who used and abused Gatsby.

How could you not love this book. It's beautifully written to start with which makes you want to read it even if it is about nothing. Additionally, the themes that he brings up such as hedonism are interesting and challenging to the reader. Shame you dislike it so much! Mrs DuVivier will be so disappointed. No cake for you!

In the past i think she did but she didn't want to be with him because he had no money. In the end both Tom and Gatsby are wealthy but she chooses to stay with tom which must mean she is no longer in love with gatsby xxxx

It is also apperent at Myrtles death that she was extremely jelous of Daisy. The reader can see that she runs onto the road as she belives it is Tom driving the car and she possibly wishes to tell Daisy about her affair so she could spend the rest of her life with her true love, Tom. This gives a sense of sadness not only towards Myrtle for being so attached to Tom, but George Wilson as well, as it is obvious that Myrtle does not have true love and passion for her husband.

Yes but she loved a man she oncve new a long time ago. When she meets Gatsby again he has changed but she does noit realise this until the end of the book when she chooses Tom over him. :yawnb: :( :lol: :flare: ;) :alien: :p :sick: :thumbs_up :)

i belive that Daisy did love Gatsby a long time ago however when he returned she did not truely ever love him and i think she just wanted to relive a past love and deep down she knew that it would never work out now that she was with and i think she was just with Gatsby so she could have the best of both worlds and have 2 men xxxx

good god you are a genius

In the past I think Daisy loved Gatsby as much as she could possibly love a person. However when they were reunited he was only a form of escapism from her reality that she had grown to dislike.

I agree with these posts - Daisy did once feel deeply for Gatsby (the hint provided by the scene the night before her wedding where she was drunk with the mysterious letter confirms this). But she and he were both young when they were "dating" - and a war was going on and the atmosphere of being young in such a time may have contributed to the romance of their relationship. Either way, by the time they re-met in the novel, things had clearly changed.

I think an interesting question would be the other side of the coin: did Gatsby ever really love Daisy, in the past or in the "present" in the novel when they get back together?

I don't believe Daisy ever truly loved Gatsby simply because Daisy was a very self-involved personality. It is unlikely she even truly loved her daughter judging by the way she treated the child as something of a show piece trotting her out to perform for guests and then sending her away. In the past Daisy might have felt an attraction to Gatsby possibly to the point of being infatuated with him but when push came to shove and she got Gatsby's letter the night before she married Tom, Daisy did not call off the wedding. While Daisy probably enjoyed the attention Gatsby bestowed on her, I don't believe Daisy ever had any intention of leaving Tom for Gatsby. She probably liked the idea of having another suitor again but she certainly never planned to leave her secure and respectable life with Tom and seemed genuinely dismayed when Gatsby tried to broach the subject with Tom in the Plaza Hotel.