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Myrtle's Unending Hope In The Great Gatsby

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In the novel, “The Great Gatsby”, by F.Scott Fitzgerald there is plenty of unending hope to go around. For example, Myrtles unending hope to be with Tom isn't as interesting as Gatsby's unending hope for Daisy. Gatsby goes over the top just to get Daisy's attention, first he buys a Mansion just to throw parties for her, he also gets to know Nick just to use him to get to Daisy, and lastly he forces Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him. Gatsby had already planned every single step in his head that he never realized how bizarre his unending hope for Daisy actually was. “There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among whispering and champagne and the stars. …show more content…
It was Gatsby's mansion.” (Fitzgerald, 5) To think this huge mansion just for one person to be living in it. Or was it intended to have more people fill it up? Gatsby had always planned to impress and woo Daisy with his luxurious and beautiful house, while at tea Gatsby throws the idea out that they should go to his house and they do. Daisy expresses herself when seeing Gatsby's house , “I love it…” (Fitzgerald, 90). Gatsby’s plan worked he wood her with his beautiful house and after that day they start getting serious. Gatsby's unending hope was turning into a reality as he and Daisy started seeing each other more and having affairs. Towards the end of the book time has come to tell Tom about the affairs of Gatsby and Daisy, Gatsby in a way brainwashes Daisy and says, “Just tell him the truth-that you never loved him-and it’s all wiped out forever… You never loved him” (Fitzgerald, 132). Daisy then listens to Gatsby and says she never loved Tom, this is all going good for Gatsby because that was his intention all these years. His hopes his dreams and his plans were slowly becoming reality. Until Daisy finally says the

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