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Success In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The idea of success is completely subjective, one person could think that someone is really successful while another person could believe that person is barely hanging on. The people of East Egg, a neighborhood just outside of New York City, believe that the people of West Egg, a neighborhood west of East Egg, are less successful than them while the people of West Egg believe they are more successful. Gatsby is a man who lives in West Egg and he is in love with Daisy, a married woman from East Egg, oftentimes Daisy’s husband, Tom Buchannon, and Gatsby butt heads about how they got their money and if they are really successful. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, despite his motives, actions, and ambitions, Jay Gatsby is great because of his faithfulness and optimism. …show more content…

Gatsby owns an illustrious home in West Egg and “[he] bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (Fitzgerald 78). Even though Daisy is married Gatsby stays loyal to her and buys a house across the bay so he can look at her house and attempt to win her over. In 1917 before Gatsby left to become a soldier in World War One, he and Daisy were in love, “[Gatsby] looked at Daisy … in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime” (Fitzgerald 75). Gatsby fell in love with Daisy in 1917 and was still loyal to her in 1922. Gastby’s friend and neighbor Nick Carraway does not have the best finances, so Gatsby offers to help him “pick up a nice bit of money” (Fitzgerald 83). Gatsby knew Carraway for less than a year and was already offering to help him earn money. When Gatsby died, only servants, his father, and Carraway went to his funeral. Carraway arranged the funeral because he knew that he was the only one that could do it due to Gatsby being loyal to only a few people. The people he is loyal to get a lot of loyalty from him. Loyalty to his friends allows Jay Gatsby to be

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