To be successful you must be at the top of your profession. The top of the pyramid isn’t for every person in life, yet some may get to this point by luck, past fortune, or even just hard work. No matter how someone gets to the top its always met by the same challenges and disadvantages. The fortune of being at the top comes with competition that’ll do anything to get the upper hand over you. It may come with people who pose as friends but only want to get a piece of the fortune and much more. To be at the top means that you are set to be lonely. Once you get to the top of a pyramid there is no other part to go up to. It is a constant need to watch your own back to keep safe from harm. This can be potentially harming to mental help.
Gatsby must live with the pain of being lonely until he meets Nick. He throws the parties to hide the fact that he is lonely even though people don’t even know him personally. He never sees the love but always sees the hate from others in the story. Sadly, in the case of Gatsby he starts out alone and ends up alone as the one he loves leaves him after he took the fall for a murder he didn’t commit. Even after death no one shows up to his funeral besides Nick who truly was his friend. Though he had the money and the success the top had its like, yet the dark side takes over in the end.