FREE ESSAY ON THE GREAT GATSBY

THE GREAT GATSBY

Psychological evaluation
Patient: Nick Carraway
Session: 1
Time: 5:00 Wednesday
Toady a new patient came in named Nick Carraway. Carraway is a struggling bond salesman
that just moved next to that big place on the island, Gatsby's place. He seems to like
his new home, but he often talks about how the homesickness he feels is relating back to
his fathers conduct. Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a
little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested
and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at
birth(Fitzgerald 6). It kind of struck me how Carraway's attitude could be shaped by a
simple code of conduct. He began to talk about how this person eluded some moral
standards. I wanted to no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human
heart . Only Gastby, was exempt from my reaction(6). He said that he gave this a reason
because Gatsby was, basically, everything Carraway hoped to be. I thought a while before
I gave my reply. I explained to him that life was about how rich a man was in experience,
not how much material he has. He kind of shrugged it off like it was a cheap psychiatrist
line. The more he told me about Gastby, it seemed the more he felt he needed to emulate
him. He then began to talk of a Mr. Tom Buchannan. Tom was not to Carraway's liking. He
seemed harsh and too masculine to have any relation in Nick's life. Nick is simple,
innocent, and he is just starting out. From what he has told me about him, Tom seems to
be a bigot of sorts, not to fond of Nick's existence in this side of town at all. How
does tom fit in to all this, I asked myself. Tom is Daisy's husband; Daisy is Nick's
cousin. Kind of confusing, eh? Carraway started to finish up the session with a story of
how he and Tom took a trip to Manhattan. On the way they stopped at Wilson's Gas Station
to meet Tom's girl. I was shocked by this finding. Nick carried a new burden upon his
shoulders. Should he tell Daisy about they affair? I told him not to worry and to wait
until next week.
Session: 2
Time: 5:00 Wednesday (a week later)
The session began usually how all others do. Some preliminary banter settled the mood;
however, Carraway quickly rose to the point that had been troubling him. The same point
that ended the conversation last week. 
What can I do? He asked. I mean do I tell Daisy or not. It's kind of important…her
well being I mean. If tom isn't happy she should know, right?
I can't tell you what to do, I retorted however I can help you with options. He sat there
with a blank face. What I mean is this, I began again maybe you don't have to tell Daisy.
It is not your job to get into their affairs, but family is family. Please continue about
Tom's girl. She's Wilson's wife, correct? 
Yes, he answered. She is in her middle thirties. And faintly stout, but she carries her
surplus flesh sensuously as some women can(29). 
Continue, I asked him.
Her name is Myrtle. That's really about it.
Well maybe you could help Tom realize what he is doing. He is supposed to love Daisy.
From what you told me Tom is the kind of person that will do the good if good is called
for.
Will he? he answered. He broke Myrtle's nose that afternoon.
I asked Carraway about his relationship with Gastby. He told me it really hadn't changed.
Parties become more and more frequent.
Session: 3
Time: See above time (two weeks later)
Nick seemed more troubled than before. He had told he that the man that held his hopes
and his dreams in the palm of his hand let him down. Gatsby, that man, was a bootlegger.

A lot of people have been bootleggers. I'm not justifying the behavior I'm just saying it
was the thing to do, I told him
People say 'One time he killed a man'(65). He explained to me that Gatsby is an Oxford
man. Nick didn't really believe him. He also received a Metal of Valor, Gatsby did, for
his service in World War One. All this seemed to calm nick down. He focused on the better
things rather than the bad. He then informed me about Gatsby's desperate fight for Daisy.
It has gone so far that Gatsby asked for a tea party to be arranged so he might
accidentally stop by and run into Daisy. Gatsby's feelings grew to the extent that he
fired his staff to spend more time in is pursuit of Daisy. 
Myrtle's dead, he told me. I sat there dumbfounded. That's why I took a week off. 'Auto
hit her. Ins'antly killed'(146). He continued and explained how this started a new spark
between Gatsby and Tom. Between all the parties and runs to the city, Carraway really
didn't know what to make of his life. I responded by telling him things will clear up.
This is the storm. The clouds will part and you will see that all of this is happening
for a greater good
Session: 4 
Time: The next day. 
I was awakened by a freighted call. Carraway sounded torn and all out of faith. I told
him to come down and once. He came down and informed me that Gatsby is dead. Wilson,
Myrtle's husband, killed him and then killed himself. Tom told him that that Gatsby was
having an affair with Myrtle and he, Wilson, killed Gatsby. Daisy receded with Tom and
things were back to where they were before. Parties became less frequent. Nick was
beginning to sober up. He noticed that the society around him was not what he wanted, but
it intrigued him so much that it killed him not to be a part from it. The can't live with
it can't live with out it scenario. Carraway has reached an understanding that dreams are
in the eye of the beholder and hopes is the lens that those eyes gaze through to look
upon the dream.