... goals tend to be too ambitious, as is in Gatsby's case, in which he wants to achieve something that is impossible. Fitzgerald shows Gatsby's ambitions through the thoughts of Nick Carraway, a close friend of Gatsby's, "He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: I never loved you. After, they could go back to Louisville and ... mysterious and enticing nature, and the tragic results even if the previous three loopholes are patched. Fitzgerald uses the character of Nick Carraway to show the corruption of the upper class, or the ends of the American Dream. Nick ...

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• Grade Level: High School