Great Gastby in Full Effect Character analysis of Gatsby
Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, is largely about the American Dream. ... Fitzgerald’s hero, Gatsby, lives out this dream. ... Gatz then stumbles across a millionaire by the name of Dan Cody, and becomes Gatsby. Having toured the seas with Cody for five years, Gatsby gains the determined spirit of a millionaire. ... Everything about Gatsby is more or less a mystery. Gatsby is always passing himself off as something he is not. ... But, also, it is this aura of fakeness that Gatsby creates around himself that in the end of the book leaves Gatsby with nothing genuine – no friends except Nick, and all that Gatsby has built his life upon crumbles when Daisy admits she has not loved only Gatsby.