Great Gatsby Romantic Hero

In the book, The Great Gatsby, Mr. Gatsby himself was a romantic character that was in a world of reality. He funded all of his enterprise, not caring about the means to get there, just in order to impress a woman with his wealth. All of the relationships that he had acquired and decisions that he had made in his life were mainly just to have this woman, Daisy Buchanan, to be his lover. In …

…was more accepted than fate, Gatsby could not keep up his made up life. And also it was shown that not everything has a picture perfect ending, especially in the real world, with the guy getting the girl. This book overall ushered in an age of realism, showing that such a character as Jay Gatsby would not be able to function as a part of the actual world and therefore probably could not even exist.