The Great Gatsby Dreams

Pathetic is a term used to describe someone who is pitifully unsuccessful.
Success is not necessarily measured in wealth or fame, but it is measured
by how much one has accomplished in life. A successful person is one who
has set many goals for himself and then goes out in life and accomplishes
some of them, but goes on living even if failing on others. In the novel
The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a pathetic character because he wasted his
whole life chasing an unrealistic dream.
Gatsby's dream is
unrealistic because "it depends for its success upon Daisy's discontent
with her marriage and her willingness to exchange it for a life of love.
But Daisy's discontent, like her sophistication, is a pose."(Aldridge 36)
The fact is, Daisy has almost all of the things that a woman could want
out of a marriage. She is very wealthy, she has a beautiful daughter, and
her relationship with her husband is of a comfortable nature. It is true
that her life is not very exciting, but i...