The Great Gatsby - Paragraph Help

Although Gatsby is seen as a thief and is portrayed as a man in self-ideal man, it is through him that we see a harsh reality of his dream, emerging from its rise to its end. At the end of the novel, after Gatsby was murdered, none of the people that he knew showed any sympathy, including Daisy - who chooses her cheating husband over him - even though Gatsby sacrificed his all. When Nick states, “at first I… else was interested” (Fitzgerald 175), it illustrates the resentment and irresponsible mentality of the Americans.

Could you provide the quote so I get a better understanding of that last part?

sure, "At first I was surprised and confused; then,
as he lay in his house and didn’t move or breathe or speak
hour upon hour it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested—"

I don't see how that quote relates to what you're suggesting it means there's also too little there for me to analyze it further

Have you read the story? and also it's supposed to be a short essay so that's why there isn't much info in the paragraph.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy–they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” does this quote sound better with my paragraph?

I actually fixed my paragraph and changed it this,
Although Gatsby is seen as a thief and is portrayed as a self-ideal man with whom he came from deprivation, it is through him that we see a harsh reality of his dream, emerging from its rise and its end. At the end of the novel, where Gatsby was shot and dead, none of the people that he knew showed sympathy for him, one of them being Daisy, who even chooses Tom over him, even though Gatsby had sacrificed majority of his life for her. Later then, Nick states, “They were careless… they had made” (Fitzgerald 175), reveals that both Daisy and Tom, lack compassion for others, when they appear to be a selfish group of thoughtless people. This is seen to be true after Gatsby's death, in which Gatsby struggles to understand a person's ideals and morality, and which the author, Fitzgerald, suggested that concentrating on more essential things such as relationships, will offer true happiness, rather than striving for materialistic things.

... it illustrates the reckless and irresponsible mentality of the upper social class of that time.

You could use that instead... Yes.


Yes, I'm familiar with the story and the movie.

oh okay, I also changed my paragraph and quote, what do you think about it?

Why didn't you used my editted version shown below? I noticed you kept using your version instead

Oh, I thought the quote I used didn't work well with my paragraph so I changed it, but I now just saw your edited version, thank you for that.

Definitely, it added some fancy touches to it