Gatsby “Great” or “Not”

Taylor McDonald
Mrs. Zinsitz
English III- 1
19 Feb 2010

Gatsby “Great” or “Not”

Jay Gatsby is a man of many characteristics. He has a good and a bad side to him. His good side would be that he loved Daisy and tried his best to get her to take him back.
His bad side is where he lies about how he gets his money and his way of life in general. The one thing that sticks out the most is his good side with what he does throughout the story, but in the end it did not matter because it did not make a difference to the one it mattered the most.
Jay Gatsby deserves to be called “Great” due to the fact that he dedicates his whole life into making his dreams a reality, which is reuniting with his true love, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby reveals that “ I can’t describe to you how surprised I was find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she’d throw me over, but she didn’t, because she was in love with me too…” (Fitzgerald 157). Another reason why Gatsby deserve to be called “Great” because he told Tom that “Your wife doesn’t love you, She never loved you. She loves me” (Fitzgerald 137). Telling Tom about this makes Gatsby “Great” because then Daisy no longer needs to stay with her husband whom she never loved, and instead can enjoy her life with the person she truly loves which is Jay Gatsby.
The most important reason why Gatsby deserves to be called “Great” is when he reveals that “ but of course I’ll say I was. You see, when we left New York she was very nervous and she thought it would steady her to drive-and this woman rushed out at us just as we were passing a car coming the other way” ( Fitzgerald 151). Do to the fact that he declares that he will take the blame for Daisy’s tragic accident makes him great. He is willing to put his life in jeopardy in order to share his life with Daisy. Gatsby’s incontestable love for Daisy is so endearing that he “read a Chicago paper for years just on the chance of catching a glimpse of Daisy’s name”...