'Gatsby turned out all right at the end' Pg 8. How does F.Scott Fitzgerald justify this claim, in spite of Carraway's 'unaffected scorn' for Gatsby?

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The Great Gatsby.

Gatsby turned out all right at the end’ Pg 8.

        How does F.Scott Fitzgerald justify this claim, in spite of Carraway’s ‘unaffected scorn’ for Gatsby?

        

        For the first chapter we see how Carraway has a negative reaction to his experiences in New York, which would eventually lead to his return to the Midwest. Carraway highlights Gatsby straight away as Fitzgerald initially presents Gatsby as the enigmatic host of the opulent parties thrown every week at his mansion. This mansion was across the garden from Carraway’s rented house. Fitzgerald demonstrates to us the two different social locations, West and East Egg. East Egg is associated with the rich that have earn inherited their money through their family, where as West Egg is associated with the ‘newly rich’ who haven’t acquired their money through inheritance, but through crime amongst other things. This difference in social living areas will eventually lead to the unfolding catastrophe.

        There are three different worlds to be considered from this novel. Firstly there is Gatsby’s which shows the shallow, senseless and aimless life which consists only of parties. The second is the world of the snobbish Tom Buchanan who looks down on the party goers, though he to does not know what to do with his wealth. The third and most important is that of Nick Carraway who is not poor but is nowhere near as well of as Gatsby and the Buchanans, as he has to work for his living. Nick does not believe that Gatsby is true to his word. This is given to us for the first time on page forty-nine, where he meets Gatsby for the first time. ‘I’d got the impression he was picking his words with care’ which demonstrates to us that Gatsby is trying to give a good impression rather than giving us the natural Gatsby, what ever that was.

        Carraway’s view of Gatsby was one of ‘I like you personally’ but I do not like what you have done in life to make your money. Carraway said to Gatsby on the night before his death ‘you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together’ by which he means that Gatsby is a better person than Daisy and Tom, both of whom had no care in the world for other people. They just went out to make their way on life. The Buchanans had no morals; Gatsby also seemed to have no morals due to his criminal connections, but Gatsby did not really seem to notice them as he was obsessed with his goal of winning Daisy back. Gatsby gives Carraway the one way of liking by doing everything he has done in the name of love. This gave Carraway a view of the real Gatsby for which he admired but on the other hand despised and had ‘unaffected scorn for’. Gatsby

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        Both Gatsby and Carraway were exceptions for their period in American life, the 1920’s. Gatsby wished to win his only love not to make money. The only way though for him to win his love was to have money to show he could look after Daisy. When he saw this dream was over he gave up to the world and let destiny take its course. Fitzgerald wrote this in Gatsby's dying pages to confirm that all Gatsby wanted was to be with daisy, which was his single dream.

        ‘If that was true he must have felt that he had ...

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