The Great Gatsby focuses on three main characters. F. Scott Fitzgerald examines the characters of Gatsby, Nick, and Daisy in The Great Gatsby. Each of these characters is different in many ways. Daisy is in an unhappy marriage, but is happy until she meets Gatsby again. Gatsby and Nick love Daisy in different ways and want to see her happy. However, despite their best efforts, the three characters grow apart and there is no happy ending for them. Jay Gatsby is the main character of The Great Gatsby. He is the mysterious character around whom the story revolves. Nick is his neighbor who gets invited to Gatsby's party where Gatsby is a mysterious person who has so many people talking about him and talking about different stories about Gatsby which reveals how big the mystery of Gatsby is. In The Great Gatsby, “Gatsby's notoriety, spread by the hundreds of people who had accepted his hospitality and who had thus become authorities on his past, had increased throughout the summer until it fell almost short of being a news” (Fitzgerald 105). In the sixth chapter the real truth about the great Gatsby is revealed. The stories of the mysterious Gatsby at parties were not true. Stories about Gatsby also went around New York, which prompted Nick to ask Gatsby about his past ("The Great Gatsby", Fitzgerald). Nick also asked about Gatsby's past hoping that Nick would finally hear the truth. According to The Great Gatsby, “This was the night, says Carraway, that Gatsby told him the story (its actual details were told earlier in the novel) of his early life. The purpose of the story here is not to reveal facts but to try to understand the character of Gatsby's passion. Final understanding is reserved for one of those exactly right statements... in the center of the paper... Literary Biographies section. Ed. Leonardo Unger. vol. 2: Ralph Waldo Emerson to Carson McCullers. New York: Sons of Charles Scribner, 1974. 77-100. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 14, 2014. Washington, Bryan R. “The Daisy Chain: The Great Gatsby and Daisy Miller or the Politics of Privacy.” The Politics of Exile: Ideology in Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Baldwin. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995. 35-54. Rpt. in twentieth-century literary criticism. Ed. Linda Pavlovski. vol. 157. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 14, 2014.Wershoven, Carol. "Insatiable girls." Child brides and intruders. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993. 92-99. Rpt. in twentieth-century literary criticism. Ed. Linda Pavlovski. vol. 157. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 14. 2014.