"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 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. 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 someone, we later find out, is Daisy. One night, Nick tells us that he finds the courage to go to one of Gatsby's lavish house parties, and that is the point when we really begin to learn about Gastby and his life.
             From that party until the end of the book, we discover many things about Gatsby and his past. We learn that he was not a Nazi conspirator, that his parents not die and leave him a large sum of mo
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