There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice. In, “The Great Gatsby”, Jay Gatsby the main character has this false hope of trying to relive his past again with his one true love, Daisy. F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the heroic elements of him being the tragic hero because he goes through this continuous cycle of false hope of getting the love of his life. Jay Gatsby came from a necessitous family and in rural North Dakota and wanted something much bigger from life. Gatsby absolutely despised the idea of him being in poverty, he had even worked a janitorial job to pay for his tuition but had to give it up because he was so embarrassed by it. As his dream was always to be rich, the only thing that really helped …show more content…
Daisy is seen as the innocent, feminine and beautiful lady that everyone seems to awe over, but in the end, it is all an act and she is just like Tom, the anti-hero. Firstly, in this quote, “As he left the room again she got up and went over to Gatsby and pulled his face down, kissing him on the mouth” (F. Scott Fitzgerald 111). It seems as if here she does love Gatsby and is expecting to leave tom for him and proving him wrong. “’Daisy’s leaving you.’ ‘Nonsense’ ‘I am, though,’ she said with visible effort” (F. Scott Fitzgerald 127), in this quote Daisy admits she is leaving Tom and that she can finally live happily with Gatsby as she claims to be in love with him. As their love story goes on, a terrible accident happens and Gatsby is taking blame for her. Daisy’s real colors come through for example when “’Nothing happened,’ he said wanly. ‘I waited and about four o’clock she stood for there a minute and then turned out the light.’” (F. Scott Fitzgerald 140) Daisy and stood up Gatsby and did not even bother to come out once to tell him anything but just continued to avoid and did not mean any of the things she had said. Gatsby in these terms can be called a tragic hero because, seeing as everything that has happened, he went through a cycle of wanting something and then trying to achieve it and once he did he lost it, as the green light had stated. When Gatsby was murdered, even then Daisy had nothing to say about the situation, she did not even call, they just moved far, far away from everyone. In the end, all Daisy and Tom really want is to increase their wealth and all they care about are