Gatsby dying when his dream died

Pg. 169 “If it is true he must have felt the he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living with a single dream.”

 

-         Gatsby always wanted to be successful in life; it was one of his main reasons for living.  When there was no phone call he realized he had nothing left.

 

Pg. 104 “So he invented 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.”

 

- It was sort of a foreshadowing that Gatsby will die in the end of the book, and with him, so with his dreams of success and happiness.  But, he kept his identity of Jay Gatsby until the end.

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Beth Herdmann