Eastern Desires (An essay on 'The Great Gatsby' by Fitzgerald)

Eastern Desires The roaring twenties. Cars were the things to have and a party was the place to be. Everybody wanted something. F. Scott Fitzgerald's book, The Great Gatsby, describes the events that happen to eight people during the summer of 1922. In the book, people went from west to east because something they desired was in the east; unfortunatly in the end those 'somethings' were unattainable. ...I decided to go east and learn the bond …

…refuge, someplace where they could start again, but they didn't find it. Tom botched it up again by seeing Myrtle and now Tom and Daisy have to return to the west to escape ôèéó predicament. In the end it was shown that the things that Nick, Gatsby, and the Buchanans wanted to have were out of their reach. The cars were still there, and the parties were still there, but what they had wanted was gone.