The Great Gatsby is a classic American novel written by F Scott Fitzgerald. It is a novel best described as a Satire on the American ideals of the 1920s. The novel has been set up in the time of early 20th century in the American society where people least cared about each other․ The Great Gatsby is a novel about a man who tries to win over a woman he had lost many years ago. Jay Gatsby is the hero in this novel because he stands out amongst the rich. Unlike the rest of the rich people in this novel Gatsby has moral values, and the rest of them can only grasp things of material value. Gatsby spends his whole life trying to hide the fact that he wasn’t like the others. Gatsby never fits in among them because what he perceives of them is all wrong, they were as uncivil as anyone else. Nick calls Jay Gatsby “great” because that is how Nick and a bunch of other people see him. Everyone seems to know the name Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby lives a life that about anyone would want to live in, because he has a lot of money, and before his death wins back the girl of his dreams. All of the rich in the novel aren’t searching for anything, none of the rich can love anything unless it is of material value. It seems like they love each other, but they only do out of each other’s wealth. Tom does not love Daisy he cheats on her all the time. Daisy did not love Tom, she married him for wealth, or else she would have married Gatsby if he were not confronted. Gatsby was into bootlegging, which was illegal, he could lose his riches at any time, and if Daisy were with him she would end up poor. Gatsby was in search of the American Dream, the only thing he had left to clench in it was a loving family. Daisy was the flaw in the American Dream. Gatsby wanted to marry out of love and not out of wealth like all the others. He knew he had to live the American
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