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Examples Of Perseverance In The Great Gatsby

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Carlie Weishaar
Mr. Mennenoh
English III Honors
10 March 2023 Loyalty and perseverance are great qualities. Jay Gatbsy is from poor farmers from South Dakota, but he sets off to do greater things and it results in him going to college, dropping out, working on a fishing boat, joining the army, and working on a boat, with a rich man, Dan Cody. In amidst of travelling the world and doing different things, Gatsby meets Daisy Buchanen and falls in love with her, but they were separated once he left for war. Years later, Gatsby becomes a successful man by doing illegal trade and resides in New York City. In F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a great man who is loyal to others and will do anything to reach his goals. Claim: …show more content…

Gatsby grew up with poor parents who were farmers in North Dakota. Gatsbys “parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people” (Fitzgerald 98). After Gatsby left North Dakota, he continuously pushes himself to become a better man, and after finding Dan Cody, he becomes obsessed with the idea of becoming rich. As a result of his great perseverance, he ends up finding his wealth from bootlegging liquor and fake stocks. Although he found wealth by corrupt means, Gatsby's constant commitment to becoming rich shows how he is a great man with great ambition. After the EVENTS that Daisy and Gatsby went through, they are separated but the next day she leaves Gatsby waiting for her call. “At two o’clock Gatsby put on his bathing-suit and left word with the butler that if anyone phoned word was to be brought to him at the pool” (Fitzgerald 161). After waiting for Daisy to call the next day, he can never talk to her because he is killed. Even in his final moments when waiting for Daisy to acknowledge and talk to him, Gatsby is still obsessed with her even after the traumatic events that they went through. Gatsby spends every day, including his last, thinking about how to get her back and make her. Gatsby is aware that Daisy may no longer be in love with him, but he still wants to keep trying to impress Daisy to one day impress her and make her part of his

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