The Great Gatsby Character Analysis

After it is discovered what really happened in Gatsby's past, he is seen as great for different reasons, one is his infatuation with his old girlfriend, Daisy. For all the mysteries that surround Jay Gatsby, his only goal is theoretically simple: win Daisy over. Everything that Gatsby has done in the past five years has been to try and impress Daisy. Gatsby is completely selfless and selfish at the same time. He would give up everything to give Daisy what she wants, but he wants Daisy to give up everything for him, as well. Nick is surprised that Gatsby, who usually seems so cool and collected, is so nervous around Daisy. Nick also views Gatsby as great because of his ability to ignore the past. Although Gatsby has been living in the past for five years, he is able to completely disregard his childhood and Daisy’s past with Tom because he has the perfect future imagined for Daisy and himself, “Your wife doesn’t love you...She’s never loved you. She loves me” (Fitzgerald 130). Gatsby embodies some part of everyone, a part that just wants to be happy and tries to achieve that happiness by simultaneously trying to forget the past while holding on to it too tight. Although, in the end, if this controls people, it’s impossible for them to survive, and more importantly, thrive,

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald is telling his readers that being rich and having huge parties is not all there is to life. Fitzgerald also wrote Gatsby the way he did to show how it can seem like someone has the perfect life, money, a nice house, and, seemingly, a lot of friends, but they can still be miserable. The life that Fitzgerald lived was very similar to Gatsby’s. Gatsby loved Daisy, and she turned out not to be the “golden girl” that Gatsby had expected, like how Fitzgerald and Zelda had problems, such as affairs, in their relationship, and how Zelda eventually had to be admitted to an