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This essay is a close analysis of Gatsby’s first meeting with Gatsby, Daisy and Gatsby’s reunion at Nick’s, and Nick’s recount of Gatsby’s past.
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The eponymous subject of ‘The Great Gatsby’, Jay Gatz is, in many ways great. Contrasting the ‘rotten crowd’ with a man who ‘smiled understandingly’ Fitzgerald establishes in Gatsby, a character who exemplifies everything that the ‘enormously wealthy’ inhabitants of East Egg, along with the celebrities who turn up uninvited to Gatsby’s party, are not. Critiquing the superficiality of an American Dream that is tied to the pursuit of material wealth, Fitzgerald’s scathing indictment of this lurid world of artifice is communicated through the observational lens of Nick Carraway whose assessment of Gatsby in the end, is unchanged despite the revelations about his past that threaten to expose Gatsby as ‘Mr. Nobody from Nowhere’.
