Jay’s Journey in “The Great Gatsby”
Jay goes through an important life journey in The Great Gatsby. He wants to live the perfect American dream life. Jay meets Daisy when he is drafted into the war. He meets her at a camp while he was in the first World War. He had to leave shortly after they meet and they don’t see each other for another five years.
Although he may think it is easy to get Daisy to be with him again, there are many obstacles he has to face. Of course the first one is actually reconnecting with Daisy and getting her to love him again. He thinks this will be easy since he thinks she loved him the entire time. She actually has a husband she loves as well. Jay gets Nick to invite Daisy over for tea and that is when they reconnect. They go out multiple times before Tom finds out. When Tom finds out he is furious and jealous. Jay tries to break them apart but it backfires and does not work out for him.
When Daisy kills Myrtle it is the last straw. Tom frames Jay as the person who was having an affair with her and killed her. When he tells Myrtle’s husband this he gets extremely angry and shoots Jay when he is swimming in his pool. The shot kills Jay and the husband commits suicide.
Jay didn’t realize how unrealistic his dreamlife was until the last moments before he died. He sees the world in a completely different view and that is when his journey is complete.
