The Many Flaws of the Great Gatsby There are some, very rare, moments when Fitzgerald allows some insights into the characters in his novel, The Great Gatsby. These occasions should be marked in red. In most cases, the story annoys the reader with imaginary images of the golden 1920s, which in reality were never so golden, or images of our hero, Gatsby. All the wonderful things that critics see in the story: the romance of manners, love, the American dream, and romance were played into the story long after the fact. There are some slight hints at these topics, but they are not really developed by Fitzgerald (for example the love between J. Gatz and Daisy Fay). The missing relationship between Gatsby and Daisy is but one of the novel's flaws. Fitzgerald shows a lack of care in developing Gatsby as a "New Money" person, dreaming all day, having and being in bad taste in everything he has and is, as well as being a criminal (although there is no real evidence to regard). that), and developing Daisy as a character, coming from a well-known "Old Money" family and not guilty ("white", to use Fitzgerald's ridiculous color symbolism). It was simply impossible for a mediocre writer like Fitzgerald to develop a relationship between such different people (even if they have one thing in common: lack of taste). The Great Gatsby is an absurd story. This "masterpiece" cannot be considered as a love story: the only love is that of a shy daydreamer, who admires an upper-class lady and does every stupid thing possible to win her over, but who, after Failing to do so, he becomes a "tragic" hero." Simply blindly applying old, worn-out plots does not make a good book. You cannot consider it a simple account of the lifestyle of the 1920s because it simply is not. To assume that is a symbol of the American dream (which is not only dreamed by Americans) is simply ridiculous. These things are not definable by some characters written on a blank sheet of paper (color symbolism!!!). consider The Great Gatsby a romantic novel: screwing people who buy alcohol, hoarding that dark money (colour symbolism!!!) and then filling a swimming pool with it, just to impress a teenage love is not very romantic in the opinion of most of people.