F. Scott Fitzgerald's book The Great Gatsby was an amazing book. Fitzgerald made the characters in the book as real and personal as possible. Three characteristics struck me in the novel. Tom's jealousy of Gatsby's relationship with his wife, Gatsby's lies about who he is and his life, and Daisy's ways of tempting Gatsby into falling in love with her. The novel was inspired by how he fell in love with his wife Zelda. The novel The Great Gatsby displays deception in many of its characters. Deception leads many of the characters to their downfall. Gatsby had the greatest downfall of all because he took his life. In The Great Gatsby, "Gatsby goes to great lengths to try to realize what Nick calls 'his incorruptible dream' of recapturing the past by winning the love of Daisy Buchannan" (Sutton). Gatsby always had an infatuation with Daisy, said Jordan Baker, “Gatsby bought that house so Daisy would be right across the bay” (Fitzgerald 83). Gatsby and Daisy had a past together. While Jordan played golf, "The officer looked at Daisy as he spoke in a way that every young girl would like to be looked at at some point[...]His name was Jay Gatsby and I hadn't seen him in over four years - even after he met on Long Island I didn't realize it was the same man” (Fitzgerald 80). Daisy is now in an abusive relationship with Tom Buchannan, “Nick Carraway attends a small party and publicly blames Tom for the bruise on his knuckle” (Sutton). ) When they meet again, Gatsby showers Daisy with love and affection, wanting her to leave her husband Tom, but she does not want to do so in their society Tom and Gatsby argue and Tom tells Daisy about Gatsby's smuggling which led him to wealth. Tom shouted: “He is… a piece of paper… a difference in fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald . Jelena Kristovic. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 15, 2014. Sutton, Brian. "Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby." Explainer 59.1 (Fall 2000): 37-39. Rpt. in twentieth-century literary criticism. Ed. Linda Pavlovski. vol. 157. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 15, 2014. "The Great Gatsby." Literary criticism of the twentieth century. Ed. Linda Pavlovski. vol. 157. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 15, 2014. Trask, David F. “A Note on Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby.” University Review 33.3 (March 1967): 197-202. Rpt. in Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen. vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 15. 2014.