Jealousy In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The book “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, has many interesting characters. None are as interesting and complex as James Gatsby. The author used many character traits or ingredients to create this character. To bake this character the ingredients needed are seven cups of jealousy, three cups of naivety, four cups of determination, one half cup of mystery, four tablespoons of dissatisfaction, one bottle of whiskey, and two cups of lavishness. The first ingredient is seven cups of jealousy, this is because Gatsby was always jealous of Tom Buchanan and his life. Tom got his money from a dead relative and he had “old money”. Gatsby wanting to have his life lies about how he gets his money because he knew he got his money by himself. He had “new money” but wanted to inherit it from a

This proves his jealousy because Gatsby wants Daisy who has been married to Tom for five years to say that she never loved him. The next ingredient ingredient is three cups of naivety. This is shown in Gatsby’s backyard where there is a green light across the bay on Daisy’s porch and he is always reaching out for it as Nick states, “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther” (180). The green light represents Gatsby’s goal, Daisy, and Gatsby always thinks she will come back too him. An example of this is seen when Daisy and Tom were talking to each other and connecting while Gatsby watches them so Tom does not hurt her. When Tom and Daisy goes to bed she closes the curtain that Gatsby is looking through and does not acknowledge Gatsby at all telling the reader that Gatsby’s green light “dream” is unreachable. Another ingredient is four cups of