Gatsby's virtues were clean and honest: make money to get Daisy. He did not cloud his virtues with greed, he just wished to impress Daisy. Gatsby thinks that he can go back to a time when Daisy loved him. "Can't repeat the past?....Why of course you can!"(pg.116) Daisy was roughly Gatsby's "green dream" at the end of the bay. "Gatsby believed in the green light...."(189) The gre

Gatsby's everlasting devotion to Daisy shows his innocence. Just as a child might buy an apple for his first crush; Gatsby did everything for Daisy's appeasement. Gatsby held his grand parties not to show off his wealth, but in hope that one day Daisy would grace one of them. He bought clothes to show to her, and even died for her. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before."(pg.98) What made that gesture sweet was not because Gatsby displayed the beautiful shirts for Daisy, but because he bought the shirts just to show Daisy. His greatest deed for Daisy was taking the blame for Myrtle Wilson's death. "But of course I'll say I was."(pg.150) That was the ultimate sacrifice. His concern for others, and selfles

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