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Truly, The Great Gatsby - Online Term Paper

Truly, The Great Gatsby

Usually, the title of a book gives the reader a brief foreshadowing on the book. What did Frances Scott Fitzgerald mean when he titled his book The Great Gatsby? On one level, Jay Gatsby seems great because of his immense wealth, but on another level, his greatness comes from his virtues and innocence, which preceded greed and pride.
Gatsby’s virtues were clean and honest: make money to get Daisy. He did not cloud his virtues with greed, he just wished to impress Daisy. Gatsby thinks that he can go back to a time when Daisy loved him. "Can’t repeat the past?....Why of course you can!"(pg.116) Daisy was roughly Gatsby’s "green dream" at the end of the bay. "Gatsby ...

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her, and even died for her. "It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such--such beautiful shirts before."(pg.98) What made that gesture sweet was not because Gatsby displayed the beautiful shirts for Daisy, but because he bought the shirts just to show Daisy. His greatest deed for Daisy was taking the blame for Myrtle Wilson’s death. "But of course I’ll say I was."(pg.150) That was the ultimate sacrifice. His concern for others, and selfless giving, made him great.
It was sad how Gatsby tried to bring back his fantasy from five years past, the arrogance of his purpose made him obtuse to the people around him. He gave asking nothing in return and allowed the party goers to take advantage of him. His fantasy blocked his good judgement, which failed to tell him that Daisy was so snobbish and egotistical. "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or ...

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Added: 10/17/2004 07:28:42 AM
Category: English
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