pitifully unsuccessful. Success is not necessarily measured in wealth or

fame, but it is measured by how much one has accomplished in life. A

successful person is one who has set many goals for himself and then goes

out in life and accomplishes some of them, but goes on living even if

failing on others. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a

pathetic character because he wasted his whole life chasing an unrealistic

dream. Gatsby's dream is unrealistic because "it depends for its

success upon Daisy's discontent with her marriage and her willingness to

exchange it for a life of love. But Daisy's discontent, like her

sophistication, is a pose."(Aldridge 36) The fact is, Daisy has almost

all of the things that a woman could want out of a marriage. She is very

wealthy, she has a beautiful daughter, and her relationship with her

husband is of a comfortable nature. It is true that her life is not very

exciting, but it is unreasonable to think that she would trade all that

she had in her marriage to Tom Buchanan for Jay Gatsby. At that time,

divorce was very uncommon, and it was very unlikely that any woman would

he behaves like a child and he cannot handle adult situations like an

Jordan Baker said, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just

to New York and bought his very expensive mansion because of Daisy.

a story of failure - the prolongation of the adolescent incapacity to

live his life according to a plan that he considered to be flawless. In

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