How Is Gatsby Selfish

I truthfully only liked Gatsby when he was acting as a suave and successful businessman. I thought that the parties he threw sounded fantastic and the mystery around who he was and his demeanor made him a worldly character that would intrigue me throughout the book. An example from the book is that at the first party that night Nick attended Gatsby just observed and watched the party like he was at the top of the world a man that was satisfied and dignified. I love the 1920’s attitude of being aloof and living in the moment which Gatsby embodied as he took Nick on plane rides and threw parties where no one knew each other's name but after that there wasn’t much that I had liked about Gatsby. I didn't like Gatsby towards the middle and end of the book when you began to see his true personality. I thought that he was delusional and a weak minded individual to define his …show more content…
I believe that are past as much as we would like to change them are just that the past and are things that define us in the present, we can certainly amend things of the past and learn from them but the way Gatsby thinks is completely selfish and delusional from my point of view. Gatsby can do anything he wants to and he did with buying a luxury house across the bay from Daisy going into bootlegging with Wolfsheim to support his lavish lifestyle and have all the fine shirts in the world but that does not erase that Daisy is no longer the girl he loves and has a life of her own. Gatsby even starts to acknowledge and see that things are not as simple as he believes when he meets Daisy’s daughter, a physical representation of the time that has passed and her relationship with Tom, but still disregards its it and continues to follow a crumbling dream. Gatsby reminded me of the character A form the book that I am