In any book that we may read, we will always find a character that is extremely hopeful in some way, shape or form. Sometimes the hope isn't straight forward, & we have to dig deep, but we will find it. That’s not the case in The Great Gatsby, right off the bat we are told by a character that another character is “the most hopeful person he’s ever met.” Nick Carraway quotes that, and immediately sets the stage for what is about to come. This novel seems doomed from the beginning, but we grasp that “Gatsby hope”. The problem is that while the story unfolds, Gatsby, an optimistic person, mixes that optimism with ambition. It’s one thing to be hopeful but when a hopeful person becomes ambitious, & obsessed with a false identity, they tend to end
