Core Question:
1. If the Great Gatsby took place today, would daisy have divorced Tom and Married Gatsby ?
If the Great Gatsby took place today, Daisy would divorce Tom and Marry Gatsby. Daisy loved Gatsby, but at the time Gatsby was poor. Women at that time did not work, Daisy went after the money not love. Daisy realizes that she didn't love TOmen when she says, "The only crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in and never told me about it" (page 39). Daisy realized marrying him was a mistake and that she didn't really love him and he didn't love Tom didn't love her either.
2. How would Gatsby's life differ if he was born into a family of wealth and class rather than scamming his way through life?
Gatsby would be married to Daisy and they would both be happy. The whole story was this triangle based on love, betrayal and their background. If a person wasn't in the upper class, they couldn't be associated with them. Gatsby was the one to take action and change his life. Although Gatsby's method wasn't legal, he wanted to become a rich successful man to capture Daisy's heart once again. In the book it shows us how Gatsby felt about his situation, "His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people-his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was the son of God….and he must be about his fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end" (page 91-92).
Closing Question: Nick had a kind of obsession with Gatsby, To what extent was Gatsby really "great"?
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