The Great Gatsby Quote Analysis

The Great Gatsby is full of hidden messages and will mean different things to different people. To me the book is saying that when people are too focused on themselves they tend to hurt everyone around them. I believe that you, yourself can be your biggest enemy. Too many people don’t realize that they aren’t the only people in this world, then when they need somebody they have nobody. For example, when Gatsby died, he had no one, he had nobody to show up to his funeral, and to witness his passing. Here are some other examples of people and their self-centeredness in The Great Gatsby. In The Great Gatsby most of the characters follow my theme very well, majority of them are very self-centered and self-absorbed. You can see this theme in …show more content…
Although he seems very kind and just a friendly guy, he also has multiple stories about his past. Hi story was that he went to school as an Oxford man and that he just inherited all of his wealth. When really he worked for a millionaire as a young man who gave him his money after his death, and Gatsby never really went to school. His past also suggests that he was involved in illegal activity. Just as Tom suggested on page 133 of the Great Gatsby, “I found out what your ‘drug-stores’ were.”… “He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter.” Gatsby is also very obsessed with Daisy. He has been living an extravagant lifestyle in hopes of impressing her and winning her back. He has lied and cheated his life through the majority of his life. Jay Gatsby was even going to lie and take the blame for Daisy in the murder of Myrtle Wilson. As Gatsby said on page 143, “Well, I tried to swing the wheel-“He broke off, and suddenly I guessed at the truth. “Was Daisy driving?” “Yes,” He said after a moment… You can see that he is hurting everyone around him because his life is completely focused on Daisy, so focused that he will literally do anything to get her