Gatsby's guide to getting the girl (well sorta)

In Great Gatsby we learn of a romantic love story of young Jay Gatsby who gains his wealth so to win the love of Daisy, a much richer and much sought after young debutante. Gatsby is distraught that he is much too poor to marry young Daisy and so they seal their love as he leaves to fight in World War 2 in hopes that when he returns, he can re kindle his love with Daisy. Too bad for Gatsby though, while fighting Nazis in Europe, Daisy was moving onto a more affluent field of bachelors. By the time smitten Gatsby set foot on American soil, his love of his life had gotten married to a much more financially secure man. Poor Gatsby is left with no money and no love, so he decides to gain his wealth and prove his worth to Daisy as a successful, popular, not to mention filthy rich man.  To Gatsby’s dismay, Daisy has forgotten her loving soldier and enters a state of utter materialistic, foolish bliss. She was flighty and unable to make up her mind for herself, she was immature in many situations and very emotionally insecure, her love for Gatsby stretched only as far as her security blanket, her misogynist, overbearing, loud,  not to mention cheating husband. When confronted with a dilemma she went the safe way and chose her husband over the enamored Gatsby. Fitzgerald portrays women as flighty and foolish, unable to think for themselves and completely absorbed in their materialistic and social needs. Fitzgerald’s rendition of a man trying his hardest to appease a woman so enchanted by parties and social events and foolish fancies, is a reflection of his relationship in real life. His opinion of women was greatly skewed due to his unpleasant and high life obsessed wife, giving no justice to the women of the 20’s.