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Essay Archive - The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby Is Set Apart From the Common Man
The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby Is Set Apart From the Common Man
Doesn't it always seem as though rich and famous people, such as
actors and actresses, are larger-than-life and virtually impossible to
touch, almost as if they were a fantasy? In The Great Gatsby, set in two
tremendously wealthy communities, East Egg and West Egg, F. Scott
Fitzgerald portrays Jay Gatsby as a Romantic, larger-than-life, figure by
setting him apart from the common person.
Fitzgerald sets Gatsby in a fantasy world that, based on illusion,
is of his own making. Gatsby's possessions start to this illusi....
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