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Nick generally dodges Gatsby’s controversial sides and focuses on what he considers his greatness, this blind romantic trust in the power of his freewill, which eventually drives him to his downfall.

“The Great Gatsby is a tragedy of the will.” Gatsby’s blind search of an idyllic past clash with the reality of its impossibility; he takes .

In a corrupted unequal individualistic society, the American Dream loses its meaning: Gatsby (like America) started, as we see in his childhood schedule, with the honorable intention of achieving virtue through hard work and self-improvement.

However, with the past of time he ends up being a huge fraud, getting involve in criminal activities and following unworthy childish dreams; Gatsby’s life symbolizes the decay of the American dream.

Nick finds Gatsby’s greatness in his perseverance which is rare in those days; however, if we put aside Nick’s romanticization of him we see that his ambition is quite destructive: Gatsby is not great, he just have the characteristic charm of a dreamer.

At the end of the book(in this decadency), Fitzgerald suggests that in the same way Gatsby longs for his precious past, the decayed modern America tries uselessly to go back to its majestic beginning, a time where “the new world” seemed able to make all our dreams true.