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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is considered a novel that embodies America in the 1920s. In it, the narrator Nick Carraway helps his neighbor Jay Gatsby reunite with Daisy Buchanan, with whom he has been in love with since 5 years before, during World War I. The affair between the two fails, however, and ends in Gatsby being shot and killed. Gatsby created a fantasy so thorough, that he became part of it, and he fell with it when reality finally came crashing down on him. The basis of all of this is Gatsby's obsession with Daisy. He did not want to deal with the reality that confronted him upon returning from the war. She married Tom, becoming to too impatient to wait for him. She is perfection to him, something for which he can strive, and so he puts all of his energy into finding her again. He uses his money to travel around the country, searching; and when he runs out, he turns to illegal methods of earning more, although they are not specified. He clips o