The Great Gatsby Response

After reading The Great Gatsby, I can say that I think the book was mediocre in my opinion. The ending of the book was not my favorite. I guess I just love a happy ending, and the ending was not the slightest bit happy. I believe Gatsby was a good man and should not have been shot from a wrongful accusation. Daisy should not have picked Tom over Gatsby because Gatsby was willing to go to the extreme to obtain her. While on the other hand, Tom did not care for her and was having an affair on the side of his marriage. Some questions I would ask the author would be “What exactly is the American Dream in your opinion?”, “What do you think is great about Gatsby hence the title?”, “Was Gatsby truly a former good man?”, and “Why did Daisy choose

I would say this is true for the majority of the characters excluding a few. I had first thought Wilson was a kind, quiet man. I thought he was unmasculine, and drawn back. When he became a madman, that’s when my sense of being “all knowing” was gone. I had no idea he would have the will to kill Gatsby and then himself. It was truly shocking. I had also thought Daisy was in love with Gatsby when she in fact did not even come to his funeral. I had hoped she had a little bit of a heart to her, when in fact she is stone cold and

The most important point is that he is a self made man, and was self made starting at age seventeen. He was also great in the sense of what he had accomplished. He started as a very poor boy and ended up being a millionaire at a young age. Although, he was a man of little substance. His life was consumed by nightly parties with movie stars and his passion to get Daisy to love him back. Towards the end of the book, I started having a conclusion of how the book would end when Wilson became deranged. When he had started talking to Michaelis he started to grow quieter. “About three o’clock the quality of Wilson’s incoherent muttering changed - he grew quieter and began to talk about the yellow car”. Michaelis also mentioned to Wilson while they were talking that he was “morbid” for what he was speaking of. Shortly after ”the holocaust was complete”. The characters triumph over there barriers in many different ways. One of the main barriers being the way Gatsby accumulated his wealth. Gatsby had first lied about his background to Daisy, claiming he was from a wealthy family to convince her that he was worthy of her. He then dedicated himself to her after the war and made sure he became wealthy, even if it was