People tend to think that they found the sense in their lives, when most of them actually didn’t, and they end up in an endless pursuit of happiness. The idea of happiness is the main reason people keep moving on, and try to achieve something, but once they can’t achieve happiness, their lives result in a chaos, as what happened to Jay Gatsby. Throughout the story “The Great Gatsby”, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows how people search for their happiness: by getting extremely successful, throwing or attending enormous parties, and/or searching for the love of their lives. As most of the people think that their happiness comes with success, they get extremely successful, in order to achieve their wants. “So we beat on boats against current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald 172). Jay Gatsby thought with his destiny of being poor, in order to get successful, so he can get the love of his life. Even though he is successful already, his past still messes up with the present, and it makes very hard for him to get his love. “They are a rotten crowd, you’re worth the whole bunch put together” (Fitzgerald 154). Nick referred to Gatsby as he is successful, and much better than others, and that he is the one that deserves to get his happiness. When Nick said this, we can feel sympathy in his words toward Gatsby, who got much more successful than others, yet he can’t achieve his happiness. Because love is an important factor of happiness, many successful people search it desperately, just like Jay Gatsby. “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired” (Fitzgerald 81). As Gatsby is pursuing his love, he is busy focusing on his love, trying to get Daisy. Daisy on the other side is tired of being pursued, and she is confused weather to stay with Tom, or achieve her happiness next to Gatsby. “’I suppose Daisy will call too’. He looked at me anxiously” (Fitzgerald 154). As he loved Daisy ver