The review that I read by Charles E. Shain said
that gatsby was no more great the any other man of his time. The reason for this is that Gatsby was trying
to live in the past, to try to recapture what he once had. Sure he had very much money,
"gonnections", and many
acquaintances, but this does not make a man great. The only thing Gatsby doesn't have is Daisy,
his old lover. Daisy live across the
lake from Gatsby with her husband Nick.
Gatsby's main mistake is that he is trying to recreate the past to
recapture Daisy, rather than live in the present and face the reality that she
is married. Even though Gatsby has what
seems to be almost everything, he does not have Daisy. The American Dream is brought up in the
criticism I read, and Gatsby has everything involved with American Dream,
except for the happy marriage, kids and the white picket fence. This is the reason that Gatsby can never
truly fulfill the American Dream. Gatsby
died a lonely washed up gangster with nothing but money and an empty mansion.
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