... F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is considered a novel thatembodies America in the 1920s. In it, the narrator, Nick Carroway, helpshis neighbor Jay Gatsby reunite with Daisy Buchanan, ... years before, during World War I. The affairbetween the two fails, however, and ends in Gatsby being shot and killed. The reason that this was inevitable is that Gatsby created a fantasy sothoroughly ... camecrashing down. The basis of all of this is Gatsby& apos;s obsession withDaisy and with meeting her. He did not want to deal with the reality thatconfronted him upon returning from the war. Fortunately,...