According to Macmillan Dictionary to be great is to be “very good, enjoyable, or attractive” or “someone who is nice and a pleasure to be with”. Gastby can be just this because he is hardworking, dedicated, and acts in selflessness but his greatness is compromised by his distant composure, his childish mindset, and his acts of selfishness.
In the english language there are many words that seem almost exactly the same but are complete opposites in meaning. One example to this is selfish to selfless, or specifically acts of selfishness and selflessness. Gatsby gives us reason to believe he is great through his selfless acts towards his love for Daisy and gives us reason to doubt his greatness in his selfish acts against the others around him. All throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, The Great Gatsby, it hints of many instances where Jay Gatsby has given every effort possible to gain the wealth he believed would give his only love Daisy everything she could ever want, resulting in her happiness. He had waited so faithfully for a married woman for five years, giving no chance for someone else to come along and make him see how foolish he has made himself to be. In his selfishness, he has assumed that once shown his success, Daisy would leave the life she had …show more content…
He opened up his luxurious home to hundreds of people night after night, he was a well known name throughout all of New York city, and he had been a very hard working, dedicated man. He was patient and faithful, but very mysterious. He was wealthy and worth a lot to some while he still lived, but in the end, underneath it all, Jay Gatsby was not a very great man. He was selfish, close minded, and very distant. He had no real friends and his enemies had reason to question him. He was foolish. His fantasies were childish and his ambitions hopeless. Very few cared about him and even less seemed to trust him. He was a sad man, living a sad dream, but it was his American
In the english language there are many words that seem almost exactly the same but are complete opposites in meaning. One example to this is selfish to selfless, or specifically acts of selfishness and selflessness. Gatsby gives us reason to believe he is great through his selfless acts towards his love for Daisy and gives us reason to doubt his greatness in his selfish acts against the others around him. All throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, The Great Gatsby, it hints of many instances where Jay Gatsby has given every effort possible to gain the wealth he believed would give his only love Daisy everything she could ever want, resulting in her happiness. He had waited so faithfully for a married woman for five years, giving no chance for someone else to come along and make him see how foolish he has made himself to be. In his selfishness, he has assumed that once shown his success, Daisy would leave the life she had …show more content…
He opened up his luxurious home to hundreds of people night after night, he was a well known name throughout all of New York city, and he had been a very hard working, dedicated man. He was patient and faithful, but very mysterious. He was wealthy and worth a lot to some while he still lived, but in the end, underneath it all, Jay Gatsby was not a very great man. He was selfish, close minded, and very distant. He had no real friends and his enemies had reason to question him. He was foolish. His fantasies were childish and his ambitions hopeless. Very few cared about him and even less seemed to trust him. He was a sad man, living a sad dream, but it was his American