Gatsby Is better
“They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together” (162), are the words that describe Gatsby the best as put by Nick. In the context of the book, Nick is saying that Gatsby is better than the people that he has come to associate himself with, and that they are not worth his time. Nick sees through all of the rumors about Gatsby directly into his heart. He sees the man that Gatsby really is, and the cause for which he has worked a good portion of his life. Right from the very beginning of the Great Gatsby, Nick tells us that Gatsby is more than a simple man. He tells us that Gatsby is an important, valuable person who is more than what people say about him. After we first hear of Gatsby in the beginning of the story, we learn less and less of him. He becomes a mystery, and Fitzgerald puts us in suspense by having characters talk and speculate about Gatsby’s past in the form of rumors from things like Gatsby being a Nazi conspirator to saying that his parents died and left him a great sum of money. Finally, when all seems lost in our quest to find out
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Approximate Word count = 766
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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