Why Is The Great Gatsby Great

The definition of being great is accomplishing something that benefits and helps someone else. Fitzgerald’s character, Jay Gatsby, is indeed great in those terms. The Great Gatsby is about out narrator, Nick, moves out to a small cottage on west egg in New York where the new money lives. Across the lake lives his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan. Nick later finds out about his mysterious neighbor Jay Gatsby. The reader later finds out that Gatsby moved across from Daisy to win her back by throwing extravagant parties and building a large mansion. Things don’t end up the way Gatsby wants them to, which ends in his death. The nagging question is whether Gatsby is great or not. I believe that he is great because in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay remains true to his friends, his true love, and his dreams. …show more content…
Jay is especially truthful to Nick Carraway. Even though Gatsby may not of been completely true in the beginning, there comes a point where Jay tells Nick everything. Fitzgerald writes, “He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving daisy” (Fitzgerald 117). This quote best describes Gatsby’s view on the truth. Nick had become very close and Jay felt comfortable telling Nick why he was throwing all the parties. In addition, he is true to his one love, Daisy Buchanan. He outwardly expresses his love for her in a very obvious fashion, “He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes” (Fitzgerald, 96). Ever since the day that Daisy and Jay met, he knew that she was his one true love. Never once has Gatsby been with another woman. He has stayed true, hoping that one day he will win her back live happily ever