d and scrapes by, but he is living the life he wants, “I am oneof the few honest men that I have ever known.”(64). He’s sensible and thinks out hisactions. He doesn’t have the green gleam in his eye that everyone else seems to have. Heis an observer to the situation, and when he talks of Gatsby believing in the Green Light,he sums up Gatsby’s philosophy and possibly what was written in the back of his mostrecent edition of “Hopalong Cassidy”; the way to live his life dedicated to Daisy. Hiswhole life was devoted to re-wooing Daisy and finally have that “one fine morning” whenshe would be his completely. I do not think that he knew when to stop. Once Gatsby achieves his dreams and Daisy is now seeing him on a regular basis,he doesn’t know what to do. This whole time he wanted her so much and he couldn’t gether, he was dreaming. Dreaming that the green light would shine on him, and once it did,he couldn’t help but go further, stretch his arms just a little further, and ask Daisy to leaveher husband. On page 139 in the hotel scene Daisy says to Jay, “Oh, you want to much! Ilove you know---isn’t that enough?” But for Gatsby it isn’t enough, he wants more andmore and really it is this dream of “one fine morning” that is the reason he is killed. Helives his life as a dream. He accomplishes the “American Dream” by coming from nothingand getting everything but all his profit go to Daisy, she is his dream all along, and it isfrom this situation that in the end he is killed, caught in the tangled web of the Buchanansmarriage.Tom is a good example of not knowing when to stop. He was born into wealthand went to a prominent college. His life is set up, he has wealth, a beautiful wife, a child,a lavish lifestyle, and no worries. His decision to have extra-marital affairs is a keyexample of “stretching his a...
