In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the main character, Jay Gatz, appears to be a role model for many but the question remains the same; is Gatsby really all that great? No, Gatsby is delusional. He carried on a bunch of false qualities and comes off as someone that he isn’t, only to find himself losing everything in the end. Gatsby was not great for many reasons; he was a criminal, he was very dishonest and lonely, and he had no true friends. To begin, Gatsby was capable of many things, including crime. He may have been wealthy but that was only because made money by committing crimes. Gatsby was a bootlegger; he transported and sold alcohol illegally. “…I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn’t far wrong.” This quote