I chose the article about why Jay Gatsby is so great. As I read the book, it was the impression of Jay Gatsby that I developed and imagined in my head. I was like, “man, this guy is awesome, he’s got everything going for him.” After doing this analysis of Jay Gatsby, I began to wonder why he was so great. People think Jay Gatsby is so great, probably because of the mysterious man he is portrayed as. It all begins in Jay Gatsby's childhood. He started life with little, as the son of fairly unsuccessful farmers. By the time he was a young man, he had even less, having willfully avoided his family, unable to accept the lot he had been given in life. While on his own, he had the opportunity to reinvent himself, and that's exactly what he did, James Gatz became Jay Gatsby. As such, life became very different, Jay Gatsby was no longer tied to his early years, but could imagine the past he desired. And then Jay Gatsby fell in love with Daisy Buchanan, an incident that would change the course of his life. forever. After meeting Da...