Gatsby is Not Really Great Essay -- The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgera

Is Gatsby Really Great?The first thing you see when you pick up this book is the Title The Great GatsbySo already you expect Gatsby to great before you have even opened the book. As the first chapter unravels The Narrator and Gatsbys Neighbor Nick Carraway, tells us just that he loathes Gatsby, however by the end of the paragraph he describes Gatsbys character as gorgeous. He also saysNo Gatsby turned knocked out(p) alright in the end.From now we begin to wonder about how great Gatsby really is? On one hand he is vile because Carraway tell us he has Unaffected scorn for him while on the other hand he is gorgeous. We consider Nicks opinions to be very accurate as he is a fair and sensitive person who is also the probably the only person that really knew Gatsby.Gatsby is the stories protagonist when we first meet him he is very mystifying and God Like which adds to his sense of greatness. Nick says Gatsby has come out to determine what share of our local heavens .The first thing we see Gatsby doing is reaching for a green light. This green light represents his dream. A dream he is striving to achieve.When considering Gatsbys Greatness, we must remember always that this is the 1920s the Jazz Age. And Gatsby was a young successful man with lots of money. Not only is this the ideal of the American dream, but he also through gigantic parties every Saturday in his gothic mansion, where all the rich and famous would gather. He was a perf...