Gatsby Is better

“They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together” (162), are the words that describe Gatsby the best as put by Nick. In the context of the book, Nick is saying that Gatsby is better than the people that he has come to associate himself with, and that they are not worth his time. Nick sees through all of the rumors about Gatsby directly into his heart. He sees the man that Gatsby really is, and the cause for which he has worked a good portion of his life.

Right from the very beginning of the Great Gatsby, Nick tells us that Gatsby is more than a simple man. He tells us that Gatsby is an important, valuable person who is more than what people say about him. After we first hear of Gatsby in the beginning of the story, we learn less and less of him. He becomes a mystery, and Fitzgerald puts us in suspense by having characters talk and speculate about Gatsby’s past in the form of rumors from things like Gatsby being a Nazi conspirator to saying that his parents died and left him a great sum of money.

Finally, when all seems lost in our quest to find out

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In the end, after all of his working to get her back, to show her how much he loved her, she could not be with him because of her own insecurities and skewed sense of happiness. Daisy is the reason for his standing out at night with his arms outstretched towards the green light on the opposite shore of the water. who Gatsby really is, and what his past really was, we meet him staring out towards a green light over the water towards East Egg, which, as we learn later, is where Daisy lives, his long time love.

Gatsby was better than the rest of them. We also learn the most important parts of Gatsby’s life, and that is that Daisy is his long time love, for which he has been working for since he went into the army and was forced to leave her in Louisville. She just wanted to have a stable life with money, and that could not be done by leaving Tom and being with Gatsby, whether Gatsby loved more than Tom or not, she insisted on staying where she had been trained to be.

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Fitzgerald, F. That someone, we later find out, is Daisy. After this we begin to become more familiar with Gatsby, we learn that he has lavish catered parties very often on his estate, yet never joins them, only watches as if waiting for someone to arrive. That is what makes Gatsby “worth the whole damn bunch” (162). That is the reason for his lush parties, and his extravagant lifestyle, he wanted to attract her back to him, but did not want to go directly to her, because she was married, and was better than that.

Gatsby is nothing more than a very love-struck young man. That is when it all came together and the reader saw just what Gatsby really was, a loving hardworking man, dedicated to having what he wanted and what made him happy. He was true to what he wanted, and to himself by working for his goal.

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