A Great Character

One of the greatest American literary characters is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jay Gatsby. He was really laid back and polite didn’t want a single trouble from anyone. I think he would make a great friend because he has that air of dependability. But what amazed me the most was most of everything he did when he obtained his riches was create an air of intrigue for one single woman he faithfully loved years before. That was one of the traits I both loved and hated about because I see the integrity of his character as well as his foolishness. Because Daisy, the women he was in love was already married (but not happily) and had a child. But even all that he still loved her and offered himself again to her. But Daisy stayed with her cheating husband and being confused on which of those two, Gatsby or her husband she really loved. She was a completely an incisive and childish character as well as her husband just as Nick said in the book. I mean she didn’t even go to Gatsby funeral and I really don’t get why Gatsby was in love her any other women would love to have that kind of guy to love them back like Gatsby. But other than his infatuation with Daisy he was a well accomplished man who came from nothing, surviving through war and still be able to make himself into something without losing his integrity. It was too bad he died that was probably the most surprising ending of a book I have read so far this year. But he was a great character no the greatest of the American literary story so far.