The Great Gatsby Analysis

The “Greatness” of Gatsby is also suggestive of the admiration of his intense materialistic wealth After all, even though Gatsby is a hollow shell of a man who’s propped up by laundered money, Nick firmly believes that he stands head and shoulders above the East Egg inhabitants because of everything Gatsby does. Gatsby is great because he is the rich, drives the best car and throws the most banging parties when Gatsby is all mysterious rumors, swirling success, and unimaginable luxury, and when Nick is in his thrall.Nick starts out being on the fence about Gatsby, comes to think of his love for Daisy as something that elevates Gatsby. Also as Nick realizes that the Eastern part of the country is composed of the corrupt insensitive individuals who are a “rotten crowd” and the “bunch put together” (Fitzgerald. Chapter 8) , his respect for Gatsby through his love for Daisy increases.

They learn that Gatsby’s money comes from crime. His party's, house and material wealth doesn't make him happy. He’s a moral bankrupt that hates his true self and has created a whole new fake persona living in his dreamtown of teenage fantasy that “ a seventeen year old boy would likely invent” and “sprang from his Platonic image” to which “he was faithful to the end” as though “he was the son of God”.(Fitzgerald.Chapter 6).Through the parallel between Gatsby and Jesus, Fitzgerald points to a suggestive comparison as Gatsby transforms himself into the ideal he envisioned and commits to the obstacles along the path to the fulfillment of his American dream As people got to know about the real Gatsby, they distance themselves. The characters come to the understanding of the idea of “ the Great Gatsby” through a rather mocking and ironic way as they understand that the once infatuation with the materialistic image that Gatsby wears to realize that he wasn't the great that they once though he