Jay Gatsby is a Sympathetic Character in Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby

Jay Gatsby is an enormously rich man, and in the flashy years of the jazz age, wealth defined importance. Gatsby has endless wealth, power and influence but never uses material objects selfishly. Everything he owns exists only to attain his vision. Nick feels

Following the war, Gatsby attempted to receive an education by studying at Oxford. From this point on, Gatsby dedicates him self to gain the love of Daisy back. He did this by acquiring millions of dollars, a gaudy mansion in West Egg, and his extravagant parties. As the group of friends, Nick Caraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, and Jordan Baker, travel into the city, Gatsby and Daisy make their love for each other obvious. Daisy and Gatsby ride in a car, separate from the group, to the city. Gatsby has the belief that Daisy is truly in love with him, and not with her husband. Upon arrival to the hotel, the group began sitting and conversing, when Gatsby tells Tom, “She never loved you.” This is referring to Daisy and Tom’s marriage. This is where a heated dispute begins and Daisy finally explains to Gatsby that, “Rich girls don’t marry poor boys.”

Gatsby had no home and no money for food, so, he would try to get any job he could find so he had food and somewhere to sleep for the day. Gatsby was also an emotional wreck to a point that it would haunt him in his sleep. After, when the two met, Gatsby’s world changed in front of his eyes, “To young Gatz, resting his oars and looking up at the railed deck, that yacht represented all the beauty and glamour in the world…At any rate Cody asked him a few questions and found that he was quick, and extravagantly ambitious”(Fitzgerald 106). At this moment, a new world flash in Gatsby’s eyes and showed him the world of the rich. After the five years with Dan Cody, Gatsby became a new man with riches and this began his journey of his personal ambition of the American Dream.

Jay Gatsby, taken in by a bittersweet fruit, drags himself through filth. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby becomes wealthy to achieve his American Dream, but he fails to achieve it because of the corruption and disillusioning effects of materialistic society.

Jay Gatsby is renowned for throwing the biggest parties in New York to display his wealth. In reality, these parties are meant to impress one person, Daisy, the love of his life. Daisy’s friend, Jordan Baker, confirms this when she tells Nick, “I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night, but she never did. Then he began asking people casually if they knew her, and I was the first one he found” (F, 80). Unfortunately, Gatsby lost his chance to marry Daisy because of his low social class. His hope to be reunited with Daisy is the ambition behind his wealth. However, the parties he throws fail to attract Daisy’s attention and results in his self-doubt; this is seen through his attempt to ask people about Daisy. His uncertainty makes him desperate, which conducts him to use his wealth to throw parties for their use value. Even though Gatsby is now accepted as a bourgeoisie, he remains unhappy because he cannot be with the person who makes him truly

Fitzgerald displays Gatsby as man who came from nothing, with an unrelenting passion to obtain material success, or the 1920’s American Dream. Radical transformation was one of Mr. Gatsby’s most outstanding characteristics, taking his desire to change from the once impoverished man to the point of changing his name. Certainly Gatsby possesses admirable traits, as his will power is once again displayed through the longing for his lost love, Daisy. The misconceptions of the time period are illustrated as Fitzgerald displays that Gatsby’s underlying desire for money is to win over Daisy through impressing her with his wealth. Within Adam Cohen’s piece “Jay Gatsby Is a Man for Our Times”, Cohen discusses the worthiness of Gatsby’s goal: “The callow Daisy, whose voice is ‘full of money,’ may not be a worthy goal. But Gatsby’s longing for her, and his willingness to sell his soul to pursue her, are the purest thing in this sordid tale.” Essentially, Fitzgerald demonstrates that Gatsby, nor his relentless will to succeed, are not the issue. It is the time period, along with the misconceptions of a dream, which corrupt the character. Gatsby’s wealth is obtained through unethical ways, like many others who followed the path of easy money. The corruption of bonds does bring Gatsby the wealth he had always longed for, along with extravagant and lavish parties at his mansion. Consequently, we learn that reaching the goal of obtaining wealth ultimately does not lead to

Everything that Gatsby ever did, his wealth, his social status, and his complete new personality, have all been for Daisy. The corrupted and illegal ways in which Gatsby achieved his great wealth make it unclear whether good or evil notions drive him. Nick notes his immense wealth when he exclaims that Gatsby’s mansion is a “colossal affair by any standard” (5). Nick later learns from Jordan that “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (79). These two quotes show that Gatsby’s wealth is not just for his own personal

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby believes money will secure love and class but it inevitably brings him only superficial relationships. As a young boy, Gatsby desires to be sophisticated and admired, and he planned on achieving this by becoming wealthy. Jay Gatsby, originally named James Gatz, was from a poor family in the Midwest but he dreamed of a different life where he was rich and well-liked. Nick Carraway narrates what he has learned about Gatsby's past, including his habits of imagination: "Each night he added to the pattern of his fantasies....

In this novel, The Great Gatsby wrote by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he wants you to understand many things. Fitzgerald mainly wants you to grasp that not everyone or everything in this world can make you happy. Money makes the world go around, or at least makes things seem better. With the risk of consequences of being wealthy and having a bunch of money, Jay Gatsby would rather take that risk and be happy than to be sad. Gatsby was startled and in all contempt for the babbled slander of his garden as if he had “killed a man.” (Fitzgerald pg. 119). Nick sits on the shoreline, reflecting on Gatsby’s life, “He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it,” he speaks admiringly

Everyone wants something they don’t have for most people that is money, In Gatsby’s situation that’s attention and the need for love and happiness. Gatsby is one man with a house who can fit plenty. Throughout the novel Gatsby finds himself at a loss for he has no real friends has nobody who loves him nor does he have any true happiness. “It was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, [with] a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy” (5).

He lived the American Dream, yet he was still not satisfied. He desperately ached for the love of Daisy. Throughout the past several years, no object or monetary amount would make him feel the way Daisy did. Gatsby’s true identity is far from rich and lively; on the inside he is extremely troubled and vulnerable. He tries to force happiness and to be content, but to no avail. Once Daisy explained that she could not leave Tom for Gatsby, he felt lonelier than before. “He stayed there a week, walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together through the November night and revisiting the out-of-the-way places to which they had driven in her white car”, explains how Jay Gatsby reminisced over his time with Daisy. Gatsby had no family to go to for support or friends; the people that went to his parties were strangers. It seems as if he desperately needed love and attention, and Daisy gave him the perfect amount. Without her, he becomes vulnerable and

This is evidence that he is newly rich because one of the main reasons he acts like this is because he is not accustomed to having such a large amount of money. This is not who Gatsby really is. This is a person who has been created out of money and the freedom to do whatever he wants with it.

In the book, Jay Gatsby seems to be a loyal and determined man. Five years before the plot of the story began, in a flashback, we learn that Jay and Daisy met before. Not only have the meet previously before tea at Nick’s house, they were once in love. Gatsby has never been in love with anyone else in those five years, when he was separated from Daisy. He was in love with Daisy so much that he changed his life around; so he could live in a house across the bay from Daisy’s (Fitzgerald 78). Even though it took several years to grasp Daisy’s attention, Gatsby never stopped thinking about the women he loved. In fact, he created and kept a book full of newspaper clippings about Daisy (93). Determination helped create Jay’s loyalty to others.

SparkNote on The Great Gatsby is a complete outline and analysis on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It offers an analysis on every character and an explanation of the fundamental topics, motifs and symbol offer in this exceptional novel. Spark notes examines Gatsby’s character accentuating what I think is the defining moment in Gatsby’s road to wealth, “working for a millionaire made him dedicate his life to the achievement of wealth”

Time tells us that success often comes with a price. Often money will create more problems than it can solve. The richness of a person’s soul can be hidden in the folds of money. Such is the case of Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is constantly altering in the readers mind due to the various puzzling events that transpire in the novel creating a level of mystery.