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The Great Gatsby Essay

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F. Scott Fitzgeralds book "The Great Gatsby '' focuses on Jay Gatsby, who goes from young and troubled, to grown and understood. The character Jay Gatsby starts off as a young child who had dreams of becoming wealthy and living a lifestyle he never dreamed he could live. As the story moves along you start to see two repeating traits that Jay Gatsby has. First would be his obsession with his past and why all the things that happened did, and secondly Jay is a man of hope and his hope for the future is what drives him to be the way he is.
Gatsby's obsession with his past is what causes most of his actions throughout the book. Jay is first introduced as a mysterious figure, and with rumors spreading around of his mysterious past. The books narrator
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