Great Gatsby
...e the world, just as it was when he first met Daisy before he went off to war. Since Gatsby constantly tries to reconstruct the world for himself, he is hopeless because not everything is going to change for his own will in a realistic world. “As Gatsby created in his imagination a world that did not exist, Marius (from Marius the Epicurean) does also.” (Pg. 63-The Great Gatsby: The Limits of Wonder) This shows how Jay tried to create his own perfect world only for himself, which merely existed in just his imagination. A way that he helped to create another world for himself was through embellishing reality. Another main reason for Jay Gatsby's demise is the fact that he constantly is exaggerating the truth in order to impress the people he is talking to. An example of this is when Gatsby produces his medal from Montenegro that he won from the war. “My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines. “That's the one form Montenegro”’'(Pg. 71) This just shows how Gatsby tried to make a worthy impression upon the people who he was just starting to get to know and carried a medal around in his pocket just to impress them. His constant exaggeration can also be clearly seen when he invited Daisy over to his house and began to show her all of the shirts that he receives every season from a man in England. “He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them one by one before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in a many-colored disarray.” (Pg. 97) This shows how Gatsby is trying to portray to Daisy that money is no object, by throwing expensive shirts carelessly. He is then predestined to die because in a realistic world his exaggeration of himself, which is Jay Gatsby, cannot exist. “It is not Just Jay Gatsby, but the “idea” of “Jay Gatsby” (as Fitzgerald’s quotation marks suggest) that is destroyed by Tom Buchanan.” (Pg. 65-The Great Gatsby: The Limits of Wonder) This demonstrates how Tom, a realist in the book, destroyed Jay’s idea of himself, which is clearly romanticist. The major factor of Jay’s romanticist feelings are towards his true love Daisy Buchanan. The final major reason for Jay’s eventual destruction is that throughout the entire book he is completely preoccupied with Daisy. One of the major points that accurately substantiates this, is that his major reason for throwing all of the huge parties was the he expected Daisy to show up at one of them. ‘“I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night,” went on Jordan, “but she never did. Then he began asking people casually if they knew her, and I was the first one he found.”’ (Pg.84) This proves the fact because his only reasoning for throwing these gigantic parties, which cost him a lot of money, was just the hope that Daisy might have shown to one of them. His major reason for actually buying his huge house in east egg was the fact that he would be living across the bay from Daisy. “He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. In...