Relationship dynamics are essentially the driving plot point within the Great Gatsby. Not to mention that you can vaguely answer most questions about characters with a simple statement. Why did Gatsby move to New York? The answer is love. Why did Tom and Gatsby have a fight in the hotel room? In a sense, the simple answer is still love. It’s quite interesting to see how much these relationships affect the mind’s of people in this novel. 

 I should probably expand on that last point, and if you haven’t noticed by this point there are going to be major plot points from the Great Gatsby revealed in this short little essay. Take Gatsby’s untimely death for instance. He was killed by George who had witnessed his own wife essentially getting run over by Daisy. However, George doesn’t know that, he believes that Gatsby ran her over, and the next day, Gatsby was shot while in his pool. Which brings me on to my next point. Gatsby had little to no sympathy for the accident Daisy had caused. He was so infatuated with the prospect of a future with Daisy that he simply did not care about the path of destruction he left behind. His plan?, to run away from the accident, from Tom, and in a sense, his own past life once again. He never really did understand the consequences of his actions until it was all too late.

Of course not all relationships are romantic in this novel. The one between Nick and Gatsby was quite a special one. The melancholic life Gatsby created for himself essentially lives on in the memory of Nick Carraway, who he at first befriended just to get closer to Daisy. Yet, over the course of the whole novel, I would say that they grew fond of one another as great friends. Take the very last line of the novel for example.

    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”   

It’s a great way to summarize the following events of the novel. It’s by no means a “good” ending in the sense that everyone is happy. It’s more of a cold ending, an ending that finishes the end of a tragic story. Nick and all the people Gatsby had affected in his life will never  truly be the same after his death. Because, despite his behavior and border-line unhealthy obsession, he was a staple to the daily lives of many living within the novel.