How Does Gatsby Deserve His Title

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Gold is like the Great Gatsby because he’s rich and popular. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby is known for his big parties and having a lot of money. Even though he came from a poor past, his personality has changed for the better. In the Great Gatsby J. Gatsby does deserve his title.
One of the reasons why Gatsby does deserve his title because he’s a popular man and throws over the top parties and doesn't care who comes.“I had been actually invited. A chauffeur in a uniform of robins-egg blue crossed my lawn early that saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer: the honor would be entirely Gatsby’s, it said, if i would attend his ‘little party’ that night.” (41) Gatsby goes over the top to invite people and that’s why his parties are a big deal because so many people attend his parties. “Daisy and Gatsby danced. I remember being surprised by his graceful, conservative fox-trot-I had never seen him dance before.” (105) At Gatsby’s parties they would dance and drink the whole night. All in all Gatsby’s parties were a pretty big deal and a lot of people wanted to go to them.
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Also, it says, “My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen a season.” (5) This proves that Gatsby has more money than most people in his town because he is telling people how much his house is because he wants to brag about it. After all, Gatsby was known by most people because of the things that he had, not by the way he was towards

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