Selfless Man In The Great Gatsby

The way he treats his milieu also exposes his narcissism. Although he regularly hosts gigantic parties in the hopes of attracting Daisy, he doesn’t treat any of the other individual guests with grace. People start streaming in early in the day and swim in his pool, and stay far past midnight, yet none of these patrons know who the mysterious Gatsby is. When Nick firsts encounters him,

“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

I’ve only known Gatsby for a few months, and so I’ll start with my first impression. It was summer, and many people came to enjoy his premises. He held huge parties at his mansion every Saturday.1 They were the most opulent and ostentatious parties, typical of the West Egg. All sorts of people came, from the city or just across the lake, looking to mingle and join the wealthy. They basked in Gatsby’s display of wealth, enjoying the alcohol, the music, and the atmosphere. They enjoyed so much of his parties, yet they never got to meet

We begin to hear rumors from other people. For example we begin to get the impression that Gatsby and Wolfsheim are involved in some type of illegal activity, which is where he may be getting his money. Also Catherine says that she heard that Gatsby had inherited his money from either a nephew or a cousin. Gatsby also does another strange thing, he wants to meet with Jordan Baker at his party. We then find out a few days later that Gatsby, Nick, and Daisy are all having tea at Nick’s house. Nick and Gatsby also are becoming closer friends, maybe it’s because Gatsby just wants something.

Since he died for taking the wrath of something he did not do. Gatsby is a man who struggled to get what he wants and who much reach a certain status before marrying the woman he is in love with. He was basically an outsider who comes from an uncertain past. Gatsby was able to win the hearts of many of the people around him with his tales of adventures and showing off his wealth. Yet, there is not a view that shows the success of Gatsby. He tries to convince Nick about his upbringings and his heroic exploits. Gatsby’s stories seemed extraordinary to the point where people questioned it but they still believe

Fitzgerald uses Gatsby's parties and the way in which Nick views them to reveal that whilst Gatsby is surrounded by shallow and vulgar people, he is above this. Fitzgerald also uses these parties to expose Gatsby's isolation which leads us to feel sympathy toward Gatsby. Despite the amount of people at the party, Nick observes Gatsby's seclusion and loneliness, "my eyes fell to Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps". This evokes a great deal of sympathy from us as although Nick describes Gatsby in a warm and friendly way, "It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life", we now can see that Gatsby is a lonely figure. This sympathy is accentuated when Nick is the only person to turn up to Gatsby's funeral, as we know that Gatsby is a decent and honourable character and thus our sympathies are emphasised by Gatsby's isolation. When Nick first meets Gatsby, he reveals Gatsby to be a fascinating character that we would like to know more about. The warm and assuring smile that Nick describes is in antithesis to the

Gatsby exemplifies this trait because he cared for others, even if he barely knew them. At one of his parties, Nick overhears a woman saying, “‘when I was here last I tore my gown on a chair, and he asked my name and address -- inside of a week I got a package from Croirier’s with a new evening gown in it’” (43). Gatsby barely knew this person, and yet replaced her expensive, ruined gown for her, even though it wasn’t his fault it got ripped. This shows that Gatsby is caring and wants to please everyone. Nick also recognizes Gatsby’s caring manner for people he doesn’t know when he describes that Gatsby had “waited five years and and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths” (78). Nick means that Gatsby had bought this super expensive mansion, which he worked very hard to get, and then used it to provide happiness to dull rich partygoers he didn’t even know. Gatsby loves to please people and cares for them which certainly brings out the blue in

In the end, even the greatest of the characters in the Great Gatsby are conformed by their appearance. They may appear to live in such perfection and wealth but in reality money can’t buy

When Nick is describing Gatsby’s elaborate parties, he says, “People were not invited – they went there… Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby” (Fitzgerald 41). Gatsby does not care who attends his parties, rather his sole purpose is to attract people and to make himself known in the community. In contrast, when Dorian hosts dinners, he carefully selects people to attend and handpicks the decorations. Through attending, people feel that Dorian has “all the grace and distinction and perfect manner of a citizen of the world” (Wilde 130). Dorian’s hosts dinners not to gain popularity, but to strengthen the admiration that people have for him. In general, Gatsby and Dorian differ in their aspirations for personal motives and images in society.

In this story, “The Great Gatsby” there is a character who we don’t really for sure who he is he comes and goes. I think from what I have heard from him he is a very nice person. Throughout this story we find out bits and pieces to who Gatsby really is. We find out rumors about the person who is, Great Gatsby he has done many things to help us identify on who he really is throughout the chapters. People think he has killed a guy because his facial expression and was in war. He was a German Spy. He had an amazing party they tons of people went to and this was this girl there at his party that she had ripped her dress and Gatsby had gotten her a brand new dress that was like $4,000 on. He can be a very caring person in a way. He is a loner who

Gatsby does well in the war and he then tries to go back to Daisy but is unable to and is sent to Oxford instead. When he comes back, he is absolutely broke and then he tries to find a job. He shows his selfishness again when he tries to get money. Gatsby meets Meyer Wolfshiem while searching for a job. He ends up getting involved in some shady, illegal business and becomes a bootlegger. Gatsby was so adamant in getting money and rising up in society that he was willing to do whatever it took to get money. His greed and selfishness led him to do illegal things that he shouldn’t have been doing. Gatsby ends up buying a house across from Daisy where he was hoping to reconnect with her again. He again shows his selfishness by wanting to reconnect and rekindle his love with her even though she is already married to Tom Buchanan. Daisy is clearly taken and Gatsby wants her to leave Tom and go away with him since now Gatsby isn’t poor and can provide for her. Even now, he still selfishly hides the truth by lying about his education and not telling the truth about the source of his wealth. He even confronts Tom about his love for her saying “she never loved you. She loves me.” (Fitzgerald 137) Gatsby’s selfishness ends up costing him his life at the very end. He does end up showing some selflessness by taking the blame for the accident even though Daisy was the one driving.

He fell in love with the wealthy debutante Daisy Fay shortly before he was to leave for war. When Gatsby returned, he discovered that Daisy had married Tom Buchanan, a wealthy Duke University scholar, making him want to achieve his dream even more. This point marks James Gatz’s transformation to Jay Gatsby. From a distance, Gatsby’s imagination was fulfilled by his dream to be with Daisy. Gatsby’s entire life is spent changing and becoming wealthy only so he could become a part of Daisy’s life. Gatsby is so convinced that Daisy is deeply in love with him that Nick Carraway, the narrator, narrates “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you.” (Fitzgerald 125). This vision of Daisy, his dream, shows how Gatsby cannot tell the difference between dream and reality. Dan Cody, an extraordinarily wealthy old man, shows Gatsby that he can pursue his dream. When Gatsby saw Dan Cody's yacht anchor at a dangerous point in Lake Superior, he saw an opportunity to leave his old life behind and took it. Cody also showed Gatsby that money would help him achieve his dream. Dan Cody acted as a type of mentor for Gatsby. Cody taught Gatsby valuable social lessons. He also improved Gatsby’s understanding of alcohol and the effect it can have on people, as well as how much money a person can make by selling it, which was illegal at the time. Cody’s inspiration and teachings made Gatsby more determined than ever to accomplish his dreams. Later in the novel, Gatsby to Nick Carraway: “Can‘t repeat the past?...Why of course you can!...I‘m going to fix everything just the way it was before....She‘ll see‘‖” (110 - 111). This shows how much Gatsby is willing to change to reach his dream. He is a man of tremendous romanticism, and he has created a vision of Daisy that she could never meet, even if she were perfect, which she is

Initially, Gatsby stirs up sympathetic feelings because of his obsession with wealth. Ever since meeting Dan Cody, his fascination for wealth has increased dramatically. He even uses illegal unmoral methods to obtain hefty amounts of wealth to spend on buying a house with “ Marie Antoinette music-rooms, Restoration Salons, dressing rooms and poolrooms, and bath rooms with sunken baths.”

Gatsby was a man who did not wish to live his family's life, a man who wanted to go above the level of his parents. Jay Gatsby's legal names was James Gatz, "he had it changed at the age of seventeen at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career"(Fitzgerald 104). By doing this Gatsby was trying to put as much space between him and his parents who were shiftless and unsuccessful farmers. To escape his family’s life of poverty hr became the right hand man of Dan Cody. He managed to accomplish this feature by earning his trust slowly throughout the five years that Gatsby was with Cody. Dan Cody was a man made of money. His family was there for every metal rush since the seventy- five, and from him Gatsby learned the proper education of a high society man. Gatsby by doing this left his parents behind to become a new

First off, Jay Gatsby comes off as a nice man who throws huge, florid parties and lets everyone come over even if he doesn’t know who they are. He seems mysterious, reticent, and rather elegant but know one knows who he once was. Gatsby was in the war as everyone knew, but no one knew his secret love. He didn’t get rich in a correct way but more so a corrupt way. He sold fake bonds and was a bootlegger and did it all for one girl. The light at the end of her dock was glowing green brightly and he would stare at it from his, reaching for