Great Gatsby

Nick caraways admiration for Gatsby is not completely misplaced in my opinion. I think Gatsby is an admirable person. Through the characterization of Gatsby, he is a character who is out of reach with reality, his so called “friends” are just people who show up to his parties, and even though he achieved his money illegally it doesn’t make him not admirable.

Gatsby is characterized as someone who is out of reach with reality and stuck believing his dreams, which are out of reach, can come true. Gatsby’s life dream is to be with Daisy. He believes this this is possible thinking that she still loves him and doesn’t love Tom. This would never happen because in reality Daisy did once love Gatsby but that is in the past and she loves Tom. “Just tell the truth- that you never loved him- and it’s all wiped away forever”. Gatsby wanted to be convinced that Daisy never loved Tom but she could not say she never loved Tom because it was not true. Gatsby stays true to his dreams even if they are out of reach, which is an admirable trait to have in a person.

Gatsby did not have any true friendships, his so called friends were random party goers that he didn’t even know the majority of. “I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited”. Nick Caraway was one of the only people to ever receive an invitation to one of Gatsby’s parties. He became friends with Nick after they met at his party and Gatsby took Nick to different places such as out to lunch and they flew his plane. I believe nick was the only one who actually had interest in getting to know Gatsby and understand his reasoning behind certain things.

All of Gatsby’s wealth was reached through his illegal distribution of alcohol, but this did not make him a bad person. In the book Tom says “I picked him for a bootlegger from the first time I saw him, and I wasn’t far wrong”. But Tom also has alcohol of his own so without people like Gatsby he would not...