The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby was a bit more upbeat than The Kite Runner, but not much. The Great Gatsby highlights the hypocrisy and the effect of misunderstandings in the upper class in the 1920's. The main example of this is Tom. He has a wife, Daisy, and a mistress, Myrtle, yet he is appalled to find that his wife is in love with a man, Gatsby, that she has not seen for 5 years, and that she wants to split up. Daisy is a bit whimsical; she abandons Gatsby at the first sign that Gatsby has a bad past. Gatsby is one of the only gentlemen in the whole book. His love of Daisy is such that he will do anything for her, included covering for her when she accidently hits and kills Myrtle while driving Gatsby's car. Tom believes Gatsby is responsible for killing Myrtle, so he tells his Myrtle's husband that Gatsby did it. The husband, Wilson believes that Gatsby is the person that was having an affair with Myrtle, and that Gatsby was angry with Myrtle, so he killed her. Wilson confronts Gatsby and both men end up dead. Nick, the narrator of the whole story, appears to be one of the only true friends Gatsby had even though Nick knew him the least. Nick is one of the few people to show up at Gatsby's funeral. Niether Tom nor Daisy realized the effect that thier actions had on the life of Gatsby. Nick ends up being disgusted with them and concludes that life is an endless struggle to the past with the hope that this time you'll be able to make, this time you'll get what missed the first time. That is what Gatsby was doing. He wanted to marry Daisy, to make things the way they were 5 years ago.