Unrequited Love

Unrequited love is a term that means someone may love another very deeply but the feeling isn't recipricated back. Such as in the case of Gatsby and Daisy where Daisy lost feelings for Gatsby right away but he was still madly in love with her. Tom stated Daisy loves me and doesn't love you. Well the truth is she did love Gatsby but only for his extreme wealth and when things started to fall apart she came back to Tom and forgot about Gatsby. She didnt attend his funeral at all and decided to run away with Tom to who knows where.

Nick told Gatsby that they were terrible people and he's glad he had the chance to tell Gatsby what he thought of them before he was killed. Regarding the unrequited love part Gatsby would never stop loving Daisy because he always had hope in his future and happiness represented by the green light. Gatsby obsessed over Daisy and coul

dn't help it to always love her. Where as Tom cheated on Daisy and she knows it but doesn't leave him.

Poor Gatsby nev

er did any wrong to Daisy but she fell out of love with him right away. He was killed with the cuff links in his hand that Daisy had given him many years before which could have represented his never ending love and hope that things can go back to how they were in the past.

Selfish people in Gatsby

Tom is a great example of selfishness in The Great Gatsby. He is extremely selfish in the fact that he keeps a seprate girlfriend but is outraged when he fin

ds out about Daisy And Gatsby. He demonstrates his selfishness in another way as well. He hold everyone at such a high standard, he expects everyone to live moral filled lives even though he does not.

Myrtle Wilson is another example of selfishness. Mr. Wilson is very much in love with Myrtle but all Myrtle cares about is the fact that he has no money. She also cares for no one but h

erself she shows this in the fact that she gives no regard for Daisy's feelings by having an affair with Tom. She also disregards Tom's feelings when she starts screaming Daisy's name.

Gatsby is another example of selfishness in that he is never satisfied with the Daisy's love he is always saying why do you love Tom. Daisy says to Gatsby I love you both isnt that eneogh for you? Gatsby wasn't ever satisfied with himself. He believed Daisy never enjoyed his parties that he wasn't good eneogh or he had to impress her with his enormous

house. It is true she fell in love with the rich Gatsby not the poor Gatsby but either way he was selfish in some way or another.

Mafia Gangsters

In 1920 the 18th Amendment went into effect outlawing the production and sale of intoxicating alcohol; however, what most Americans did not realize was that prohibition would also promote a major increase in crime. Those promoting prohibition claimed families would be saved, health would improve and workers would perform better on the job, but the increase in organized crime and rise of gangster culture brought on by prohibition brought about more crime, corruption and immorality than members of the prohibition movement could have imagined.

The origins of organized crime are in Sicily. Sicily faced numerous invading armies, in the middle ages, and a secret organization made up of many small groups was organized to unite Sicilians against them. These groups were collectively called the Mafia and later on Cosa Nostra. Each of these groups or families had their own territory to serve, inform and protect. At some point the Mafia spread in Italy and began selling protection. The Mafia also engaged in other criminal acts but the individual groups still took care of their own.

During prohibition the demand for alcohol was at an all time high. There were more than twice the number of speakeasies than there had been saloons prior to prohibition. Underworld criminals were supplying Americans with whatever alcohol they desired. The fact that the average American tolerated organized criminal activity because it fulfilled their desire to drink benefited gangsters greatly. After all any American who was consuming or transporting alcohol was breaking the law also.

Prohibition coincided with a leadership change in one Chicago area gang. The Torrio gang. Alfonse Capone took over the operations and saw a great opportunity to earn wealth through supplying Chicago and the nation with alcohol. This brought about significant change in organized crime. Up until prohibition organized crime had been mostly a local business, Capone's operations during prohibition turned organized crime into an international industry. In addition to smuggling alcohol from other countries and his illegal brewery and distillery operations in Chicago, Capone organized the illegal production, distribution and sale of alcohol nationally and internationally. He organized his bootlegging business like a legitimate company would to distribute its product, complete with salesmen, truck drivers and security.