The Great Gatsby vs Jay Gatsby
The Great Gatsby vs Jay Gatsby Normally, the title of a book is meant to make clear or define some part of the book, whether it’d be a character, an object, or a setting. However, in the Great Gatsby, the title much more serves to confuse or elude the reader to the subject of the book, rather than make it clear to them. Despite being titled “The Great Gatsby”, our POV character is not Gatsby himself, but Nick Carraway. Along with that, we don’t even meet Gatsby till the 3rd chapter, meaning that for the first 48 pages of this 180-page novel, or 1/4th of the entire book, we don’t even meet the man on the title. We only hear rumors or see hints of Gatsby for the beginning of the book, and once we meet him, he seems to be nothing like what the title has implied. Instead of a great and larger-than-life man, we meet someone who’s lonely, who doesn’t even have people on his shoulder or by his side, a man who’s parties are...