Jay Gatsby Moral Compass

There are many different characters throughout the novel of The Great Gatsby, but two personalities stand out among the rest. These characters exhibit traits that make one seem to be greater and worse than the latter. The character with a strong moral compass is Jay Gatsby for the reasons of him wanting to achieve his goals through the American dream and his unwavering stance on being able to live in the past, however, Daisy is quite the opposite as she manipulates people into giving her wealth for unknown reasons and is extremely materialistic. Daisy and Gatsby, while being wound up in practices that seem to say the opposite, are the most morally unjust and proper people in the entire novel. Gatsby uses his wealth to make the people happy.
In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is the man that wants to please everyone to catch the …show more content…
This statement shows the true nature of Gatsby as the way he treats people isn’t affected by the way they treat him back. The nature of the upper class in the novel was always very disconnected and only caring about oneself and not being gracious of that given to you. While Gatsby at times may exhibit this behavior, he shows an unwavering sense of loyalty to provide the life that people want to live through the few parties throughout the book. The only true give back of society is the fame associated with those parties, turning the West Egg from being new styles of getting rich to being known as the locations for Gatsby’s parties. Another trait that Gatsby portrays is his sense of the American dream living on through the corruption of the modern day society. When Gatsby’s past is first being revealed Nick says, “The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s