We have always been told that our imagination is the key to success. It's how we contribute and add knowledge to the world. It is that thought in our mind that takes us beyond reality. Imagination is necessary to thrive as a human race. But how far can we imagine before we start confusing reality with our hopes and dreams? In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald we see how dreaming too far can bring unhappiness. Jay Gatsby, the protagonist of our novel is a young, elegant, mysterious millionaire in New York in the 1920s. He lives in a mansion in West Egg where he throws extravagant parties that all of New York can attend, but in reality he only wants the presence of one person in particular, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby met Daisy long ago at a house party while at Camp Taylor before the war. Gatsby states that it was love at first sight when he and she first met. Both Daisy and Gatsby wrote letters to each other as the war wore on, but Daisy soon waited no longer and married Tom Buchanan, a strapping polo player from a very wealthy family. Daisy and Tom, without knowing it, lived right across the street from Gatsby's house on East Egg, where Gatsby reached out to the green light that flashed from their dock. Many people knew what Gatsby looked like and even fewer actually knew who he was. era. People gossiped among themselves about who he was and where he came from and that sort of thing, but he was a real mystery to almost everyone, even our narrator Nick Caraway feels uncertain about Gatsby for much of the novel. Gatsby first tells Nick that he belongs to a wealthy family from the Mid-West and that they have all moved away leaving him large amounts of wealth. He adds that he is an Oxford……middle of paper……who never loved Tom, because, even if it were true or not, it's easy to lie for the one you love unless you really don't. The most concrete evidence we have that Daisy loved Tom and not Gatsby is because she never called. The night he hit the girl, Daisy agreed to call Gatsby in the morning, but never did. As a result of all this Gatsby ends up dying. The boy who dreamed with the stars at night and imagined a glorious life in the future, in the end, dies with his hopes. Gatsby was never satisfied, he must have always felt unhappy. Gatsby thought that money could bring him happiness. Then, when he had wealth, he thought he needed Daisy to be complete. We will never know how it would have turned out or how far he would have gone with his vast imagination. Gatsby serves as an example for all of us to keep imagination and reality close to each other.