The Great Gatsby and the dangers of the American dream F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby affected me emotionally as well as physically. It contains both physical and emotional pain. All of Fitzgerald's characters had a dream, however the dream of one of the characters stood out, the main character, Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby was the only character in the entire novel that I found both painful and physical. By continuing with the emotional pain, Jay Gatsby exaggerates it. His American dream is to chase a lost love, a love that he thought would love him and stay with him until death separated them, but it didn't end that way. This dream, her love, she left him and ran away with another, her husband. This left Jay Gatsby alone, tormented, unhappy and devastated. His American dream abandoned him, destroyed him and ruined his life, his whole life. As a nurse, I also found in Jay Gatsby a wound, a physical pain that tormented him day and night. The pain that a nurse can look at and try to treat and heal, but yet is somehow impossible. It is the pain of denial. However, Jay Gatsby wasn't the only one who had an American dream and got hurt, there were others, others who died because they thought their American dream was real. Take for example a young woman named Myrtle. She was the wife and lover of another at the same time. She was the lover of Tom, who was Daisy's husband, and Daisy was the love of Jay Gatsby. There's a good connection there, right? Myrtle loved Tom, with all her heart. He was her American dream, yet next to him she did not find love, but death with his wife, who accidentally killed her. A tragedy for a young woman like Myrtle. Among other things, I find Gatsby to be rather vague. My eyes can never focus on him, his outlines are vague. Everything about Gatsby was more or less like a mystery, something you had to figure out on your own. Fitzgerald writes, “Gatsby had come a long way to this blue meadow, and his dream must have seemed so near that he could hardly help but grasp it. Little did he know that it was already behind him, somewhere in that vast darkness beyond the city. , where the dark fields of the republic stretched out in the night." At first Gatsby did not know that his dream, his American dream was far away, beyond him, far from everything he had possessed in life. This American dream cost him his life. He died with honor and pride. Yet, Daisy and Tom lived with remorse, regret, guilt, and hallucinations, due to the death Daisy had caused Myrtle, and Tom for lying to Myrtle's husband about the car that killed Myrtle. These lies and guilt were Tom and Daisy's American dreams after what they had caused. They played with fire and got burned. And it will always be like this. The American dream is dangerous. Gatsby took a risk and lost his dream. Daisy took a risk and lost half her strength and Tom his pride in being a strong man. They put all their heart and strength into following their dreams, yet in the end it all fell apart. Everything they had ever hoped for, everything they had ever wanted, has gone down the drain, to the point of loss and shame. As a nurse, I consider the American dream a dangerous dream, a dangerous dream, because you never know what can happen, what can happen to you in the end. My American dream is to heal and treat patients in need and make a good job out of it, but somehow sometimes it backfires on me and what I'm left with is guilt, like Daisy herself. I can't cure Gatsby of his American dream, but I have found a wound, the wound of denial, as I mentioned before. Daisy denied it and.