The High-Bouncing Lover
The Great Gatsby has been popular for many years. it is a story of a young man in the 1920s who lives in a materialistic world made up of new and the old rich. He is a boy who rose from a devastated puberty in country North Dakota to grow up remarkably rich. He attained this grandiose goal by participating in organized crime, including appropriating unlawful alcohol and trading in stolen securities. From his initial youth, Gatsby loathed poverty and longed for prosperity and sophistication. Such a short title, The Great Gatsby raises a lot of questions. There are two ways to read the title. One is to see it as an ironic and another is to understand it directly. Gatsby rises to the high class of society in a dishonest way; he's earned his fortune through illegal activities and tries his best to hide his past. He is a liar, but he is an idealist. He uses his wealth just to make his dream become a reality. He wants to be with his love, Daisy. In a money-oriented world where people pursue amoral materialistic things, Gatsby’s power to dream lifts him above the meaningless
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He died for his love and dream. He did not deserve to die, even he was not guilty, because it was daisy that killed Myrtle. He lived his whole life as an idealist dreamer and was able to reach his goal but at the end, He becomes a victim of Tom and Daisy's selfish, shallow addiction to their wealth and lifestyle. After his death, nobody respects and even remembers him except Nick. Nick is the only person who believes that Gatsby is truly a good, generous, loyal, and friendly person. Nick is able to see his willpower to make his dream come true. He is the only one who truly respects Gatsby’s greatness and is able to see that in the materialistic and amoral world, it is rare to find a person who unworldly loves someone and is ready to die for