“What is so Great About Gatsby?”

We think of Gatsby as great, because of his dream. Jay Gatsby, born James Gatz, had the dream of becoming something more than he was. When James was taken under the wing of Dan Cody, a product of the silver fields, he got that opportunity. Now Jay Gatsby and a young officer at Camp Taylor in 1917, he fell in love with Daisy, then Daisy Fay. He was sent overseas, and she had eventually given him up and married Tom Buchanan, and had a daughter. When Gatsby finally returned from Europe he decided to win Daisy back. His first step was to buy a house in West Egg. From here he could look acro

The heart of the American dream itself is why it is so redeeming. The idea that you can achieve anything and that dreams really do come true is what has keep that it alive from the first day the settlers laid their eyes on this green land to the present. Even though most American know deep inside that is not always the case, as was demonstrated in the tragic events that ended the novel, it still does not stop us from dreaming it. To say that Gatsby does not exemplify the American dream is to corrupt the meaning of it. Gatsby’s dream of longing for a lost love is one that nearly everyone, not just American, have had or someday will. Gatsby gives us hope by showing us that any man, despite his beginnings, can rise to success. As future generations of American live out their lives, they too will dream of achieving greatness, and model their lives to attain that dream. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald, 189).

…[Gatsby] stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away… (Fitzgerald, 26)

What saves Gatsby, and what makes him a masterful literary achievement...is the driving force behind his well-orchestrated rise: that years earlier, he was a poor boy, jilted by the most popular young girl in Louisville in favor of a wealthier suitor, and he has spent a lifetime working to get her back...Gatsby's longing for her, and his willingness to sell his soul to pursue her, are the purest t

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