Jay. Daisy. Tom

I sat in the corner of the room, like any unassuming Butler would. They thought me to be one of their one, so I melted right in. Gatsby stared defiantly at the large framed Tom Buchanan, telling him that his wife didn't love him, and never did love him. I was right in the middle of a big life step for these people, so was Nick and Jordan. The three of us had no direct connection to the happenings, but yet we stayed and watched.

It was a horrible sight to see, a flaming love triangle finally falling apart in front of us. Gatsby tried getting Daisy to renounce her partial love for Tom, but it just wasn't going to happen. For everything Gatsby had, he seemed to be only missing a few things.. Things that money simply cannot buy. He believed that with enough determination, charm and wit he would be able to fight time itself. A full five years in the arms of another man is hard to erase, I think, and he didn't get the response from Daisy that he was looking for.

Unlike Thomas' biased view on the subject, I sympathize very much for Jay Gatsby. It looked, to me atleast, that Tom was very sure of himself in that argument when it had ended... He had little else to comment on than Gatsby's rise to power. He didn't at all agree with the methods in which Gatsby obtained his fortunes, even if it was for a noble cause in his eyes. Gatsby, on the other hand, was so sure that he had Daisy's love, and that's all that mattered to him.

Tom is from the same breed that the Andersons are from. That upper crust of society that has a warped view on the world. They don't accept people that make the final leap over their boundaries, because they've got nowhere else to go..

I think that Gatsby had a dream, an amazing dream of success and happiness, but he was fighting a force that couldn't be fought with material things. He was blinded by it, and he kept on fighting it. We will see where this will bring him.