The American dream is almost a curse to those who understand it like Gatsby. Gatsby’s life long excursion to fulfill his dream becomes hazy, just as Myrtle’s dream for that of higher living comes to a halt. Myrtle calls Tom to pick her up from the garage. Myrtle runs desperately at Gatsby’s yellow car, assuming Tom was driving, and dies. The accident kills not only Myrtle’s dream of higher living but it is also the start of the departing of Gatsby and his dream as well. Myrtle’s husband George sets out to find who is responsible for his wife’s death. He narrows his suspects down, not quite to the end however, and shoots Gatsby in belief that he was the person driving the yellow car. According to Casie E. Hermanson, this perception of “predetermined destiny contributes to the novel as tragedy” (79). Fitzgerald did not make it to obvious who was driving the car. The unknown driver of the yellow car contributes to the tragedy. However, revealing the true driver is even more of an addition because we never would suspected it. The novel is almost expecting to unravel into the fulfillment of the American dream. Instead, the embodiment of the American dream dissolves into a tragedy.

Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson are two characters who reach for higher living. Myrtle is a wife of a mechanic and lives above their garage. Myrtle tries to escape her lifestyle at the garage by having an affair with Tom. In the novel, Tom Buchanan picks Myrtle up and drives to New York where her apartment is, but on the way Myrtle pleads for Tom to buy her a police dog. Myrtle knows Tom has enough money for the dog so she does not feel at all disobedient for asking. Gatsby reaches for higher living to obtain his dream. Gatsby learns from Dan Cody that with money you can obtain anything. When Gatsby tries to win Daisy back, he knows he will have to gain wealth because rich girls do not marry poor boys. He sees money as the first resort for a higher living.

Gatsby looks at situations differently when they include Daisy. Gatsby usually never appears at his costly parties. However, when Gatsby invites Tom and Daisy, he is by Daisy’s side all night long. He has a way of seeing Daisy for who she once was and not for whom she is now. If he captures reality he would not love her as he does because she is full of unreality also. She is very naïve to reality. Gatsby tries to regain the past relations Daisy and him shared and begins to show positive outlook. However, this outlook can not be foreseen because there is an “inability

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