【正文】 time he has dealings with Tom, but Gatsby is always open and aboveboard. He dares to say to Tom frankly that he loves Daisy and Daisy also loves him. “She’s never loved you. She loves me,” says Gatsby, “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me! (160)” While Tom has no such courage and guts to speak out in public the relationship between him and Mrs. Wilson. Another good example of this kind is that when Daisy kills Mrs. Wilson on a road by driving a car, Gatsby bears the responsibility bravely. He says to Nick that, of course, he will say he is driving the car. He is worried about Daisy while she is hiding behind a tree to check up there’s no trouble inside. Here, we can see his love to Daisy is so true, and it is another way to see how much he wants to regain Daisy, and he can realize his dream of love. However, his love can not bring him happiness and the reciprocal love from Daisy. On the contrary, he gains a dirty trick played by Tom and Daisy. When Tom finds his lover Mrs. Wilson killed by a car and the car doesn’t stop, he shouts “The God damned coward!” and “He didn’t even stop his car”. It seems that he is a hero who is ready to take up the cudgels for a just cause. But when he senses the murderer is probably his wife Daisy, he says with an axe to grind that the car doing it is a yellow car for he knows clearly that the yellow car belongs to Gatsby. Particularly, when Tom is sure that it is Daisy who mits the crime, he schemes with Daisy to shirk the responsibility and shift the blame onto Gatsby. In the novel, a very vivid description of this reads, “Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table, with a plate of clod fried chicken between them and two bottles of ale. He was talking intently across the table at her, and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her. Once in a while she looked up at him and nodded in agreement”. “There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together(176).” It’s just as Nick says to Gatsby that “They are a rotten crowd”, and “you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together”. Through the contrast of Gatsby with Tom and Daisy, we can see Tom is sinister and sly. “They were careless people,” as Nick describes them. “Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creature and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess—they had made(181)…” In the end, Gatsby is killed by the dead woman’s husband who is deceived into thinking that Gatsby is responsible.It is his death that shows Gatsby’s contradictions between ideal and reality. Gatsby sinks into this kind of unreal dream so deeply that he can not wake up. The final result of Gatsby is inevitably miserable. The reason why he fails in the end is that he is so childlike, innocent and infatuated that he’s still in a dream until he dies. So we may say that Gatsby is a dreamer. As a matter of fact, liking reverie is human nature and through reverie man can create miracles and develop the society. Reverie expresses man’s wish to look forward to a wonderful ideal and a happy life, and meanwhile, it shows that mankind finds sustenance in spirit. Usually reverie includes two sides. One is realistic and the other is unrealistic. The former can e true, but the latter cannot. Gatsby’s reverie belongs to the latter. From the story, we can see that all kinds of reveries appear repeatedly in his life. Gatsby’s reverie is the sign of innocence, for he does not know that some people are sinister and ruthless. He just looks upon the whole world as beauty and he regards his conceits as reality. So when he lies in bed at night, “the most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him” and “A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain(120)”. Because Gatsby’s dream is so innocent, sincere and infatuated that as a result Gatsby is broken up like glass against Tom’s hard malice, and the long secret extravaganza was played out. One of the reasons why he fails is that Gatsby is quite selfconfident. Confidence is a necessary motive force for one to do things. If a person is sure of himself, he will be full of vigor. And it will be possible for him to realize his ideals. But, if a person can’t face reality correctly, his confidence will be blind, so is Gatsby’s selfconfidence. Very clear evidence can be found in the novel that Gatsby is sure of himself through a talk between Nick and him. When Gatsby hears Nick’s words that Gatsby can’t repeat the past, he cries incredulously. Because of his selfconfidence, Gatsby struggles with all his strength. He buys luxurious mansion near Daisy’s place. But in the end his love dream fails. When Daisy runs over and kills Mrs. Wilson at the wheel of Gatsby’s car, Daisy is so timid and selfish that at the moment of crisis she rejects Gatsby and retreats with Tom into safety of their money, making Gatsby her scapegoat. The final result of Gatsby shows that his selfconfidence is blind and he doesn’t really know Daisy very well. Gatsby can not notice the change in Daisy and continues to see her as the once nice and innocent one and further idealizes her by his transcendental view. He does not know that Daisy has grown up into a vacant, bored and sophisticated woman. In fact, Daisy is not worthy if being loved by Gatsby, for she is a mere mediocre female who has beauty. But Gatsby is drawn to Daisy because she represents his dream to him. Gatsby idealizes her in his mind. So his broken dream of love indicates that American dream is shattered. Owing to his unrealistic dream, Gatsby’s fate turns out to be a tragedy. As for Gatsby’s death, it seems that Gatsby gets bad value, for Daisy does not go to his funeral and she does not even send a m