Green Light in the Great Gatsby After the events of this story have unfolded, the narrator Nick, focuses on the man most like himself; Gatsby. Both Nick Carraway and Jay Gatz hail from the mid-west, where morals and the right way of getting ahead are instilled into them. They travel to New York, where the morals are paper-thin and everything seems turned upside down. The saps with morals stay in the ashheaps while the careless, …showed first 75 words of 2071 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2071 total…to him. The only thing he knows is that she’s there and he still loves her. Gatsby and Myrtle both try to break into the closed, old-money society of the East Egg. They don’t realize that some dreams, no-matter how you try, come true. America was based on the dream that anything can come true and Gatsby swallows this idea whole. In the end he went to far and it meant his demise.