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The Great Gatsby Is a Tragic Hero
Title: The Great Gatsby Is a Tragic Hero
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 919 | Pages: 3.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Great Gatsby Is a Tragic Hero
A tragic hero can best be defined as a person of significance, who has a tragic flaw and who meets his or her fate with courage and nobility of spirit. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a tragic hero.
Jay Gatsby is an enormously rich man, and in the flashy years of the jazz age, wealth defined importance. Gatsby has endless wealth, power and influence but never uses material objects selfishly. Everything he owns …showed first 75 words of 919 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 919 total…man of extreme capabilities but he fails to see the inevitability of his vision's failure, and in his inability to see this, he keeps trying to attain it. He does everything in his power to accomplish this vision, until his death. Daisy indirectly causes Gatsby's death, making her more than ever, unworthy of Gatsby's affections. Ironically, Gatsby lived for Daisy and and up to his death, believed and had faith in her and his vision.
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