The Great Gatsby: Being Successful The Great Gatsby is considered an American classic, or as Noel Perrin says in his story “one novel that nearly all educated Americans have read.” I found the book very hard to get through. It contained many confusing story elements; for example, the valley of death that they drive through on their way to Manhattan and the man they meet there for lunch. Despite some very confusing story plot the book is unmistakably about one man, Jay Gatsby. The whole novel is about him and his associated, established rich but mainly about his crusade to regain love lost with Daisy Buchanan. There are several eleme