There are many kinds of heroes; Batman, Super Man, Daril Devil, and others. All this heroes fight crime, literally, Gatsby in other way doesn`t. For me Jay Gatsby is a hero, just because, and only because I admire him for the kind of person he is in a decade that everything was grotesque and banal. He didn`t care if the world was ending, he just wanted to met Daisy again. Ok, that the way he did met Daisy again was wrong, given though she was married and having a “good life” (saying about the American dream). Come on, look how Fitzgerald describe the Buchanan`s house.
“Their house was even more elaborate than I expected a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens-finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run. The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon” ((E-book, Great Gatsby, Scott F. Fitzgerald)
“Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction-Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures”
(E-book, Great Gatsby, Scott F. Fitzgerald)
“His responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament.”-it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No-Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men”
(E-book, Great Gatsby, Scott F. Fitzgerald)
“And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter-to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning–
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (E-book, Great Gatsby, Scott F. Fitzgerald)
” “There’s something funny about a fellow that’ll do a thing like that,” said the other girl eagerly. “He doesn’t want any trouble with ANYbody.”
“Who doesn’t?” I inquired.
“Gatsby. Somebody told me–“
The two girls and Jordan leaned together confidentially.
“Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.”
A thrill passed over all of us. The three Mr. Mumbles bent forward and listened eagerly.
“I don’t think it’s so much THAT,” argued Lucille sceptically; “it’s more that he was a German spy during the war.”
One of the men nodded in confirmation.
“I heard that from a man who knew all about him, grew up with him in Germany,” he assured us positively.
“Oh, no,” said the first girl, “it couldn’t be that, because he was in the American army during the war.” As our credulity switched back to her she leaned forward with enthusiasm. “You look at him sometimes when he thinks nobody’s looking at him. I’ll bet he killed a man.” (E-book, Great Gatsby, Scott F. Fitzgerald)
“I never care what I do, so I always have a good time. When I was here last I tore my gown on a chair, and he asked me my name and address-inside of a week I got a package from Croirier’s with a new evening gown in it.”
“Did you keep it?” asked Jordan.
“Sure I did. I was going to wear it to-night, but it was too big in the bust and had to be altered. It was gas blue with lavender beads. Two hundred and sixty-five dollars.” (E-book, Great Gatsby, Scott F. Fitzgerald)
“Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever….Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one” (E-book, Great Gatsby, Scott F. Fitzgerald)
“a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air” (E-book, Great Gatsby, Scott F. Fitzgerald)
“God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me but you can’t fool God! …God sees everything” (E-book, Great Gatsby, Scott F. Fitzgerald)
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