The Great Gatsby Analysis

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Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is one of the most meticulously structured stories of all time. When visually examining the main character Jay Gatsby one can visually perceive many personality’s and ideals. There is the hopeless romantic, the malefactor bootlegger, the kindest host, and beneath it all, there is James Gatz, a minuscule boy from North Dakota who grew up in penuriousness and had immensely colossal dreams of becoming great. There are many questions about what made Gatsby so great. The designation The Great Gatsby can be open to many different interpretations. As the narrator, the audience gets a deep insight into how Nick feels about Gatsby. Nick views Gatsby as an estimable figure, and cerebrates that Gatsby’s capacity …show more content…

For the longest time Gatsby was gainsaid the one thing he wanted most in the world, Daisy. While she was disposed to wait for him until after the war, Gatsby did not optate to return to her as a poor man. He wanted to compose something out of himself so she was the motivation abaft his quest for immense wealth through malefactor activity. Nick designates how Gatsby is unable to peregrinate from the past, “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes afore us. It eluded us then, but that’s no mater-tomorrow we will run raster, stretch our arms father. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” The metaphoric language used conveys how humans are unable to move forward from the past. Gatsby never looses his optimism while endeavoring to transform his dreams into authenticity. He expends all of his energy to the pursuit of what will make him blissful. Gatsby is endeavoring to recuperate the past. What makes Gatsby great is his faith that what he desires will come to him if he exerts himself strenuously enough. Gatsby reflects how he will, “Go back to Louisville and be espoused from her house just as if it were five years