After reading the The Great Gatsby

Gates’s love for Daisy was doomed. Daisy’s birth and appearance were predestined for a life of luxury that she could not endure. So Gates didn’t go back immediately after the war. He knew that even if he did go back as a hero, Daisy would never marry him. He couldn’t give Daisy a rich life. To put it cruelly, even if Gates came back rich, and Daisy didn’t marry, she wouldn’t necessarily marry him. It’s like when Gates died, none of his traveling friends showed up for his funeral. He started out as a poor boy, and all his parties were a cover for his poor past. He didn’t make a friend or even a lover, Daisy, who really cared about him. Daisy knows that her husband is having an affair, but she still won’t leave him because she loves the luxury he offers her. He and Daisy are one with unlimited wealth, one with unsurpassed beauty, but they both have ugly souls. Their mistake was ultimately paid for by the pure-hearted Gates. Without that shot, Gates’s soul would have died, too, and he would have fought so hard to have Daisy, that in the end Daisy wouldn’t shed a single tear, and all his efforts would have been for nothing. I think it also implies a fundamental problem that wealth is often accompanied by apathy, evil. Ordinary people do not want to pursue flashy things, not worth it.