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The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is considered a novel that represents America in the 1920s. In it, the narrator, Nick Carroway, helps his neighbor Jay Gatsby reunite with Daisy Buchanan, which he has been in love with since 5 years before, during World War I. The affair between them fails, however, and ends in Gatsby being shot and killed. The reason that this was unavoidable is that Gatsby created a fantasy so thoroughly that he became part of it, and he fell with it when reality came crashing down. The basis of all of this is Gatsby's obsession with Daisy and with meeting her. He did not want to deal with the reality that confronted him upon returning from the war. Fortunately he found in Daisy someone to focus this on. She is perfection to him, so he puts all of his energy into finding her again. He uses his inherited money to travel around the country, searching; when he runs out, he goes into the drug business, then oil, then liquor