Essay Question #3

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, a character played a role in where they met someone from his past. This girl was a positive influence for him, but also affected him badly. In this work of literature, Jay Gatsby moved to West egg, to become closer to his love from his childhood.
Jay Gatsby moved to West Egg to see his love from his childhood. This was a good thing to him because he hadn’t seen her since when he went away to the war. He thinks it would be good to see her and that once she saw him, everything would be the same again. Also, he wanted to go further into the relationship with her. He thought that she was waiting for him to get back from the war so they could still be together.
That wasn’t the case though. Once he moved to West Egg, he realized that she was married to a man named Tom Buchanan and they lived in East Egg, which was right across the water. Jay met his neighbor, Nick Carraway and Nick told him all about Daisy and Tom’s relationship; how they are not very trustworthy to each other. But Jay didn’t care; all he cared about was seeing Daisy again for the first time, in a long time. Nick set up a date so that Jay and Daisy could see each other, and then Daisy started having an affair. At the same time, Tom was having an affair with Myrtle, who was with someone at the time.
How this affected him positively and negatively is, it was positive for him because he rekindled with his childhood sweetheart from a while back. That made Jay very happy, but then there was a bad part. The bad part was that she was married to Tom and she had a life with him. She started sneaking around with him, and in the end, he ended up dieing because of her.
All and all, Jay Gatsby was affected positively and negatively to Daisy. It went from really positive to really negative towards the end of the novel. Jay cared so much about this girl that he would do anything for her, but she wouldn’t do anything like that for Jay. In the end he ended up taking the blame for something she did, and ends up getting killed for his childhood sweetheart he could not wait to see again.