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“The Great Gatsby” is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald set in the 1920’s and is a recollection of a man named Nick Carraway's memories of the summer he met Jay Gatsby the person he could not judge. Jay Gatsby changed the most throughout the novel because He started the novel as a rich and extravagant man with a mysterious background, but it was revealed that he didn't start his life this way, James Gatz was a seventeen-year-old fisherman on Lake Superior who had big dreams that he thought he never could make a reality. But he adopted a persona that modelled the ideal person through the eyes of a seventeen-year-old, and met his good companion and friend Mr. Dan Cody. But towards the end of the book the window that is Jay Gatsby is shattered

In the novel The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main character Jay Gatsby, was great. Gatsby was great due to his ambition, optimism, and for being passionate in the novel. The Great Gatsby was set in the 1920’s, based upon Jay Gatsby, in Nick Carraway’s perspective.

Jay Gatsby, the title character of the novel is an incredibly wealthy young man, living in a medieval mansion in West Egg on an imaginary area of Long Island. Gatsby has many laudable traits. For example, he is filled with optimism and the ability to transform his dreams into reality. Jay is also extremely faithful to his true love, Daisy Buchanan, even to the point of death. When we first meet Gatsby, he is the aloof host of the fantastically opulent parties thrown every weekend at his mansion. It appears he is surrounded by wondrous luxury and is courted by beautiful women and the rich and powerful men of the time. Jay is also a very admirable character due to his status of wealth and being a hero of War World I, “In the Argonne Forest I took two machine gun detachments so far forward that there was half a mile gap on either side… I was promoted to be a major, and every Allied government gave me a decoration- even Montenegro”. However, Nick who narrates the book views Gatsby as a flawed man who is dishonest, deceitful, a liar, and a dreamer whom is searching for answers in the past, “he talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself, perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy… if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was…”

The single most admirable thing about Gatsby is his utilization of romance. Jay Gatsby is not just a failure, he’s also a massive success. After all he is the great Gatsby. But why was he able to become the great Gatsby? He is able to use his dream of a life with Daisy. If there is one thing that you learn as a child it is that you can use your dreams to do great things. Gatsby

The theme at the heart of the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F Scott Fitzgerald lies in the doomed relationship between the protagonist, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Narrated by Nick Carraway, the friend of Gatsby’s whom Gatsby finally confides in at the most tragic moment of his life, the story unfolds against the backdrop of the roaring 20’s.

As a young boy, Gatsby has a yearning for wealth and success. He went as far as to changing his name from Jimmy Gatz to Jay Gatsby to sound more professional. The young Gatz strives daily to become his self-created character. Jimmy’s father says “Jimmy is bound to get ahead. He always had some resolves like this or something” (Fitzgerald 173). From the beginning of his childhood, young Jimmy is determined to not be like his family. Gatz wants more in his life rather than being poor farmers like his parents. Jimmy Gatz has a plan as shown in his letter about how he is going to attain wealth and prestige. He is constantly working on how he can improve and make a better future

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is the story of one man searching for a long-lost love and the struggles he goes through to get her back. It is the story of Jay Gatsby, his wealth, and most importantly, his awe-inspiring love for Daisy Buchanan, his first and only true love. Gatsby spends all of his time trying to build up a life to impress Daisy and win her back from her rich, jealous, and aggressive husband, Tom Buchanan.

In the well-known love novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby is a mysterious yet bold man. He is a man of poor background, yet his wealth topples even the richest of New York. His wealth stems from his shady and criminal relations to Wolfsheim and his associates. Over this time of business with Wolfsheim, Gatsby has acquired a good number of “friends”. The story reveals Gatsby as a popular man who knew many people ranging from police commissioners, to Wolfsheim himself.

To everyone else, Gatsby was an “Oxford man,” as he called himself, mysterious, and extremely private about his personal life, and thus many rumors circulated around him. Nobody knew of the real Jay Gatsby, small town James Gatz, because he was simply unglamorous and uninteresting to the American public of the 1920s. Furthermore, everything that he did was for Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby tried to win her love back and failed, a nonsensical belief on his part; however, he pursued it anyway. It was his obsession with her ultimately led to his death since he would do anything to protect the girl that he loved even though she would not reciprocate his feelings completely or do the same for him. Jay Gatsby would be undoubtedly deserving of being called “great” had it not been for Daisy Buchanan who was like his

“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald is shows the American society in the 1920’s. The main character is Jay Gatsby, a wealthy man from New York who throws very lavish parties. The story is narrated by Nick Carraway who is Gatsby’s neighbor. Daisy Buchanan is the woman that Jay loves. She was initially supposed to wait for Jay’s return from the army, but married a man with a greater wealth.

The book, The Great Gatsby, takes place in the early 1900s. Scott Fitzgerald the author of the novel, portrayed a man who was very wealthy in the mist to find his true love. Jay Gatsby was on a mission to find his true lover Daisy Buchanan. Daisy and Gatsby go way back dating back to when they first met while they were teenagers. They were deeply in love and once Gatsby went off to war they said that they would wait for each other, to get married.

In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, we meet a character named Jay Gatsby, the main character, and he is carried away by a woman who he has loved for years. The novel narrates the tragic tale of a wealthy man who tries to throw parties, and his house would bring her back. In the book, Gatsby attempts to remake the past by altering his identity and accumulating riches in order to win over his lost love, who married Buchanan while Gatsby was away fighting in WW1. The narrator of the novel, Nick Carraway, who is world weary and cynical, connected with all the main characters, and has the ability to see the good in him. Gatsby tries to win back the love of his life and he tries to get help from Nick. Moreover, if Jimmy Gatz evolves into James Gatsby, he had a chance to reinvent himself and due solely to his own ingenuity.

Gatsby has another side to him - he is a very ambitious and motivated person. This is epitomized by the strict daily regimen he imposed on himself at a young age. He was never satisfied with his status-quo and worked tirelessly for a lifestyle better than the one he was born into, a dream that came into reality. Throughout the novel, we see Gatsby as a ‘flat’ character, his character does not develop, as Nick’s does. His self-image was set in stone at age 17, when he changed his name and persona from Jimmy Gatz to Jay Gatsby. This new person he became didn’t grow or develop throughout his life.

The novel ¨The Great Gatsby”, by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place in East Egg and in West Egg. Tom Buchanan and Daisy Buchanan and a married couple living in East Egg. Jay Gatsby is a character trying to reunite with Daisy Buchanan after 5 years who lives in West Egg. Nick is a character that helps Jay Gatsby reunite with Daisy his cousin. In this novel, The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that the American Dream is pointless through his depiction of Gatsby's love life.

Gatsby the Greatest Greatness comes from a person’s character, not from one's environment. Jay Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby”, a man who started from nothing, and worked his way to the top throughout his entire life. Now he is one of the most notorious entrepreneurs of his time. A man who became lovestruck only to have it taken away by The Great War. He became a very honored and decorated war veteran, then came home to reconnect with his young love again.