The key to greatness (great ga
The key to greatness (great gaThe Key To Greatness
Happiness is the key to life. Money is the key to happiness, or is it love? Many people have different opinions on what happiness is. Maybe this is because happiness is many different things for many different people, but in the end it all comes down to what the person loves. Some people spend their whole lives trying to succeed in the business world only to gain vast sums of money an die rich and unhappy. Why are these people wasting away their time only to gain material belongings and not love? In the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, mistress, marriage, and true love were the different kinds of love that existed.
Tom Buchanan was married to a woman named Daisy, but had a mistress who lived in the Valley of Ashes. The mistress's name was Myrtle Wilson. She would wear a tight, brown dress to give the impression that she were rich. Myrtle was not happy with where she was at. She was married to a dirty, greasy mechanic named George Wilson. Myrtle would use Tom to get into the upper-class. Tom in return would go out and show off his girl. "Tom's got some woman in New York. . . She might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner time. Don't you think?"(Fitzgerald 16). Everyone knew about Tom's woman, including Daisy. Daisy would not let he feelings about the situation show through to Tom. Tom and Myrtle's love would soon bring Myrtle to her own death. Myrtle thought she saw Tom and was hit by a car as she ran into the street to flag him down. The car that hit Myrtle was being driven by Daisy Buchanan. Daisy and Tom were then forever to be together.
Daisy and Tom were a married couple living in East Egg. The two moved from Chicago. Tom was a polo player and Daisy would move wherever her husband's polo playing would take them. "They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together" (Fitzgerald 6). The two owned an elaborate Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay. The bay separated East Egg from West Egg which was where Jay Gatsby lived.
Although Daisy was married to Tom, she had a love from many years before with Jay Gatsby. Gatsby and Daisy shared something very magical, but Gatsby was sent off to war and by the time he got back, Daisy had found a new love with Tom. Yet Gatsby will never forget his love with Daisy....
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