In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, revolves around the narrator, Nick Buchanan, who depicts the life of the separation of once old lovers and their relationships with varieties of characters, feelings, and ambitions that prevents them from being back together. Speaking of ambition, the characters in The Great Gatsby are never authentically happy with what they possess. They keep on dreaming about acquiring further materialistic replenishments. They are unhappy with not only the amount of money they own, but also their relationships, Identity, and their own homes. No matter how much money, luxury, or women/men you have in your life, It will never sincerely satisfy your own true unreachable aspirations.
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Similar to Myrtle, James Gatsby had done the same, except it was not with his lover, it was with his parents. Everyone would contemplate that James Gatsby is unconditionally gratified with his life, with his extravagant parties in his immoderate mansion. But then again, no one has really seen Gatsby sincerely happy. While people are unsatisfied with what class they are in and the amount of money they have, Gatsby is upset with his own identity. “James Gatz – that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career– when he saw Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior” (98). James Gatsby was unsatisfied with his whole existence. He had not wanted his parents to be his legit parents. In fact, “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people – his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all”(98). He had completely different imaginations of his dream