Truly, The Great Gatsby Usually, the title of a book gives the reader a brief foreshadowing on the book. What did Frances Scott Fitzgerald mean when he titled his book The Great Gatsby? On one level, Jay Gatsby seems great because of his immense wealth, but on another level, his greatness comes from his virtues and innocence, which preceded greed and pride. Gatsby’s virtues were clean and honest: make money to get Daisy. He did not cloud his virtues with greed, he just wished to impress Daisy. Gatsby thinks that he can go back to a time when Daisy loved him. "Can’t repeat the past?....Why of course you can!"(pg.116) Daisy was roughly Gatsby’s "green dream" at the end of the bay. "Gatsby believed in the green light...."(189) The green light represents the dream o....

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