gatjay Romantic Jay Gatsby of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby :: Great Gatsby Essays

The Romantic Jay Gatsby of The Great Gatsby           Doesnt it always seem as though wealthy and famous people are larger-than-life and virtually impossible to touch, most as if they were a fantasy?  In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays Jay Gatsby as a Romantic, larger-than-life, figure by setting him apart from the common person.         Fitzgerald sets Gatsby in a fantasy world that, based on illusion, is of his own making.  Gatsbys possessions start to this illusion.  He lives in an extremely lavish mansion.  It is a factual imitation of any(prenominal) Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking crude under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden.  (5) It models an extravagant castle with a European style.  Indoors it has Marie Antoinette music-rooms and restoration salons.  (92)  There is even a Merton College Library, panel with imported carved English oak and thousands of volumes of books.  (45)  There is even a private beach on his property.  He also has his own private hydroplane.  Gatsby also drives a highly imaginative, circus wagon,  car that everybody had seen.  It is a rich cream color with nickel and has a three-noted horn.  (64)  It has a nonsensical length with triumphant hat-boxes, supper-boxes, tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields and a green slash conservatory.  (64)         Amidst Gatsbys possessions, he develops his personal self.  His physical self appearance sets him apart body-build the other characters.  His smile is the type that comes across four or volt times in life.  One of those rare smiles with a quality of unfading reassurance in it.  (48)  He has a collection of tailored shirts from England.  They are set forth as s hirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel.  He has shirts with grade insignia and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, with monograms of Indian blue. (93)  Gatsby wears a unique(p) gorgeous pink rag of a suit that sets him apart as a bright spot.  (154) Gatsbys mannerisms are different too.  He gives the strong photograph that he picks his words with care.  Gatsby is an elegant young roughneck