The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby: An exam of selected relationships. According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, relationships between men and women do not always work; something always goes wrong. He illustrates this premise quite well in his development of four major relationships influencing the plot of what can be considered his greatest work, The Great Gatsby. The first marital relationship introduced in the novel is that of Tom Buchanan and Daisy Buchanan. Tom is a very powerful man …

…her mind and was put in an institution. Similarly, Myrtle acted irrational and just might have gone crazy in the end, had she not been killed. Fitzgerald responded to his wife’s mental state by drinking. He, like Gatsby and Wilson, couldn’t deal with reality. He chose to seclude himself and write a masterpiece in which he expressed his opinion about relationships in general and why they can’t work, hence: The Great Gatsby.