why the great gatsby ended the way it did
I think it's because Gatsby really believed in the American Dream and so he had to die to make Fitzgerald's point. The American Dream, at least in that time and place, was dead and so Gatsby had to die because he embodied that dream. Daisy went back to Tom as a way of emphasizing this point.Answer #5). Gatsby, in his romaticizing of the American Dream, is a tragic figure. He dies in a Christ-like posture, the sacrificial victim of the materialistic Buchanans and all the other superficial people who did not even bother to attend his funeral.