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characters and uses their actions to show their selfish desire that eventually leads to ruin. Fitzgerald ridicules the American dream through the characters in his work The Great Gatsby. He uses Jay Gatsby as a modern twist on the classic tragic hero to show us how Gatsby’s American dream is flawed. Jay Gatsby, being who the story is named after is a very good example of the American dream. He also represents what most people living in 1920s America were striving for, notably, he has become so rich

known as Jay Gatsby. When I first moved here to West Egg a few years ago I quickly took notice of Jay and was determined to find out more about him. To my own surprise, Gatsby grew on me and as time progressed our friendship prospered. You see, Gatsby was different from the people of West Egg, he was better and he deserved better than what he got. He also threw the most outstanding parties in history. {chuckles lightly} Day by day, my respect for this extraordinary man grew and grew stronger. Jay had

Jay asked me to write this, said I would be the only person aside from Daisy that would have something to say, something honest. I never thought I would be standing here, saying all this without Jay. Have you ever met someone who changed your whole world? I did and that man was called Jay Gatsby. If you don’t know who I am, well I’m Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby was my best friend, my brother, he was someone I looked up to. No actually he was someone who everyone looked up to, we all admired

Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and of course, the enigmatic Jay Gatsby himself. While all of these characters are equally susceptible to literary analysis, as they all have been deciphered thoroughly over the past 92 years by literary critics, teachers, and students alike, Gatsby in particular is a character that continues to mystify audiences today as everyone is trying to answer the same question posed by the novel: who is Jay Gatsby? This essay will hope to reveal the answer to this question

While Jay Gatsby was a man of mystery he was also one consumed with superficiality. We do not know much about him until we delve deeper into his background and how it affected him his whole life. Growing up in poverty inclined him to view a wealthy lifestyle with hungry eyes, willing to do anything to achieve it, not thinking twice about the consequences. Wealth was one of many goals Jay Gatsby set in his lifetime, but it was not the most important one. Daisy Buchanan was his last goal and his longest

in the worlds of fashion, entertainment, sports, and technology, Hip Hop artist Jay Z has etched himself into the collective conscience of America as an icon of black success. One of the consequences of this revered status is that his art, whether it be in the form of music, documentary films, or books resonates on a level beyond that of his peers. As comedian Jerrod Carmichael joked in his latest comedy special, "Jay Z means way more than me to Dr. Martin Luther King." Hunger for individual advancement

decay, Jay Gatsby encompases it all. At first he is a mystery, an enigma shaded by flashing lights and the upper class, the mysterious gentleman who holds elaborate parties and is only known as Gatsby. As the story progresses he is come to be known as Jay Gatsby a man deeply infatuated with the idea of Ms. Daisy Buchanan, come from a bootleg propelled fortune, and the dream of the former James Gatz. Above all Jay Gatsby is a dreamer, from when he became Gatsby from Gatz from North Dakota. Jay Gatsby

suffers throughout his life must, therefore, resort to illusions to cope. Jay Gatsby, was a poor youth from North Dakota who could never accept the fate that he was given in life. He never had enough money to marry the woman he loved and was forced to pay for his college by working as a janitor. As a result of all the defeats and drawbacks that Gatsby suffered through during his youth, he began to despise the life that he lived. Jay Gatsby was a man that “defie[d] oppressive society by trying to conform

with good intentions in mind. His decision in doing this is extremely important to the themes portrayed in the novel. The Great Gatsby brought a lot of the social issues that were going on in the 20’s into the light, and in a brilliant way. Writing Jay Gatsby as a static character was an integral part of the themes that Fitzgerald hoped to depict with the The Great Gatsby, and an extremely effective way to expose the general public of the 20s for whom Fitzgerald truly saw

To everyone Jay Gatsby had it all: the money, liquor, fame and success. However Jay himself knew he had nothing. The money, the fame and even his business never meant anything to Jay. He only wanted one thing and Jay chased his desire obsessively. Nevertheless nobody knew this to be the great Gatsby many came to “know” except for a few. Throughout the story the reader sees a transition of the fake great Gatsby to the real James Gatz. In the beginning Jay Gatsby is established as a charming and gracious