How Is Jay Gatsby Remarkable

The Greatness of Gatsby Jay Gatsby was a man who lived a luxurious life. Jay Gatsby was truly great-remarkable would be a better description-, he was a generous, hopeful and successful man but like any other human being, he did possess some negative qualities that may lead others to think otherwise. Gatsby was very successful. He had started off life as a farmer's boy, his parents were unsuccessful farmers in North Dakota. Gatsby then joined the army and worked his way up to being a man who owned a mansion in West Egg and had everything he could possibly dream of (except for Daisy). He threw extravagant parties, “there was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars” (pg. 39), where people showed up by the hundreds and Gatsby provided all the alcohol and food at the parties which were usually held every other weekend. Gatsby was able to own many different types of

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity of the promises of life as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away."(pg 2), Nick did not judge Gatsby at all in the book (well he tried to not do so), because he saw so much in Gatsby. Gatsby believed he would reunite with Daisy after five years had passed, he did everything he could in hopes of getting back to her, he threw those parties thinking Daisy would one day walk through the doors of his mansion. He believed history could and would repeat itself. Gatsby was full of so much hope but that hope was a little bit of an obsession, which is never a good thing. He became rich just for Daisy, he moved to West Egg and bought a home there to just be across the bay from