Owen McClarren Ducceschi and Somers March 31, 2023 Critical paper 2023 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about the journey Mr.gatsby takes to reconnect with the love of his life. Some argue that Gatsby is not great because he was involved in bootlegging and other illegal stuff. Although this may be true, Gatsby is great. Gatsby is hard-working. At the beginning of the book While nick is at gatsby's party he says to nick “Almost at the moment when Mr. Gatsby identified himself, a butler hurried toward him with the information that Chicago was calling him on the wire. He excused himself with a small bow that included each of us in turn” ((Fitzgerald 48) This is showing how he never stops working no matter what’s going on he always …show more content…
It was Gatsby's mansion” (Fitzgerald 5). This shows gatsby is a very successful person if he can afford such an extravagant house. Another time in the book when it shows gatsby is financially successful is when gatsby is showing nick around his house gatsby says to nick “‘I've got a man in England who buys me clothes. He sends over a selection of things at the beginning of each season, spring and fall.’ He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them one by one before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray. While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher - shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple green and lavender and faint orange with monograms of Indian blue” (Fitzgerald 92). It shows how he can spend his money on all the fancy clothes he probably won't wear but because of how financially successful he is he doesn't really