The Great Gatsby: What does it all mean?

      
Throughout the novel, the Great Gatsby there is a lot of wanting but not being able to attain the thing being wanted.  This yearning for something is also considered the American Dream, or the pursuit of happiness and is very prominent in the book because ever character has some desire, and also the driving force of myself and my fellow Americans. 
       
        For one example of a character in the novel that has a desire it is obviously Mr.Gatsby, who wants to be with Daisy but she is married to Tom so she is unattainable. Mr.Gatsby tries desperately to get together with her and does but it is short lived and destroyed by Tom and obviously Jay Gatsby's death.  "So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight-watching over nothing".  Nick said that and it means that nothing will happen between Gatsby and Daisy.  I relate to his predicament because I once wanted to date a girl but she was dating another guy.  We both liked each other but her boyfriend was controlling.  Finally, when she broke up with him and we were going to date, her father was sent to a new base for the military and she left. 

        Another example of someone trying to achieve something and not being able to is Wilson wanting to leave with Myrtle because he knew she was having an affair with someone.  Before they were going to leave she was killed by Daisy in Gatsby's car which is very unfortunate.  "'Auto hit her. Ins'antly killed"' was what the policeman said to Tom when he arrived at the scene.  I can relate to this because when I got a new game for my Xbox 360 I loved it.  I played it all the time and nothing else.  I was about to download the game to my hard drive so I wouldn't lose it and it would run faster.  That very day before I did, my friend came over to play it.  He accidently kicked my Xbox while the game was running and this resulted in the disk being terribly scratched beyond repair.  I havn not been able to play the game since then.  In this case my friend represented Daisy, and his foot was the car. 

     All in all, I related to the characters of the Great Gatsby much more than I expected.  They were in different ways but still quite more meaningful to me than it may seem to others.  Desire without satisfaction was ramped throughout the novel and in my life as well as most Americans.  The characters in the book tried desperately to achieve something and could not, as I have done the same and we all had the same outcome or consequences.  Theirs may have been more severe but the resemblance remains, that we all wanted something and could not obtain it.