The Great Gatsby Title Analysis

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, you meet several different characters such as Nick, the narrator, Tom and Daisy, Jordan, Myrtle and Wilson, and Mr. Gatsby. Nick and Gatsby live on the new money side of town while Tom and Daisy live on the old money side. Gatsby throws parties for everyone every Saturday and we find out that he is in love with Daisy. Tom and Daisy are together, but Daisy is torn between Tom and Gatsby. While Nick watches everything from the sidelines, his unbiased narration giving us enough information to make our own judgements. The title, The Great Gatsby, reflects Gatsby’s facade as well as lures the reader in and blindsiding them from the rest of the story. Throughout the story, you get introduced to Mr. Gatsby, who has created a mysterious facade around himself. No one knows much about Mr. Gatsby and the things we do know we can’t promise they are true. The title adds on to his mysterious facade as it makes him sound like a great person with nothing to hide. The title makes you think that Gatsby is a

The reader doesn’t officially meet Gatsby until a few chapters into the book, so we only hear what others have heard or think of him. We know that he throws large parties every weekend, lives in a huge house, and is rich but other than that we don’t know anything about him. Not meeting the character right away motivates the reader to keep on reading so they’ll be able to figure out just what is so great about Gatsby. The rumors help the title lure you in as well because you don’t meet him right away and it makes you wonder if they are true and if they are why do people think he is so great? Daisy tell Nick that “you must know Gatsby” (pg 11) which tells us that, like the title suggests, Gatsby is a very well known person and given the rumors added to that, can make you wonder if the title may be