Before Gatsby dies, Nick Carraway tells him, "They're a rotten crowd," and adds that Gatsby is "worth the whole damn bunch put together".
In the end, however, Nick comes to the realization that Gatsby is "worth the whole damn bunch put together." It's not really a comment on Gatsby's fate (to die), but rather his character (to remain true to his love for Daisy over many years).
The gardener arrives, who tells Gatsby that he will drain the pool as the season is over. Gatsby tells him to wait because he hasn't used the pool. Nick leaves to catch a train but doesn't want to leave Gatsby. He tells Gatsby that he is worth more than the whole 'rotten crowd' put together.
Gatsby reveals details of his and Daisy's long ago courtship. He was enthralled by her wealth, her big house, and the idea of men loving her. To be with Daisy, he pretended to be of the same social standing as her. One night, they slept together, and he felt like they were married.
Nick's final words to Gatsby are, "They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together," which reflect his recognition of Gatsby's inherent value over the moral decay of the wealthy elite.
The Great Gatsby isn't explicitly LGBTQ+, but it's frequently read through a queer theory lens, particularly focusing on narrator Nick Carraway's complex feelings for Gatsby, suggesting homoerotic undertones, closeted sexuality, and intense, possibly romantic, longing that transcends typical friendship in a repressive era. While F. Scott Fitzgerald never confirmed Nick as gay, interpretations point to Nick's detailed descriptions of men, his avoidance of intimacy with women like Jordan, and his fascination with Gatsby as hints of his hidden sexuality.
Nick reflects on all that he has experienced with Gatsby and the rest of the characters, summarizing his experience in the final line: ''So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Mansell Pattison's network schema suggests that Gatsby was a seriously deranged individual, in the range of a Skid Row alcoholic, an institutionalized psychotic, or a disabled borderline, whose efforts at resolution had run their course (1, 2).
This not only shows that relationships in the1920's were fake but were very patriarchal. Another relationship that Fitzgerald talks about is between Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson. Tom is cheating on his wife, Daisy, with Myrtle. In the book it says, “Neither of them can stand the person they married”(33).
The fact that Daisy, a woman of wealth and class, has chosen him makes her even more desirable in Gatsby's eyes (Fitzgerald 155). Even though he has not reached the social status needed to marry her, Gatsby sees her as his wife: “He felt married to her, that was all” (Fitzgerald 155).
Tom realises that it was Gatsby's car that struck and killed Myrtle. Back at Daisy and Tom's home, Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy was driving the car that killed Myrtle but he will take the blame.
Wilson eventually goes to Gatsby's house, where he finds Gatsby lying on an air mattress in the pool, floating in the water and looking up at the sky. Wilson shoots Gatsby, killing him instantly, then shoots himself. Nick hurries back to West Egg and finds Gatsby floating dead in his pool.
After the lunch in New York, Nick sees Jordan Baker, who finally tells him the details of her mysterious conversation with Gatsby at the party. She relates that Gatsby told her that he is in love with Daisy Buchanan.
Greg Olear argues that Nick idealizes Gatsby in a similar way to how Gatsby idealizes Daisy, whereas Fitzgerald scholar Tracy Fessenden posits that Nick's attraction to Gatsby serves to contrast the love story between Gatsby and Daisy.
Jay Gatsby travels the journey to achieve the American dream, but his dream is corrupted and outside forces prevent him from ever fully attaining it.
The novel uses symbols, such as neighborhoods like the East Egg and West Egg, to highlight social divisions and tensions. Tom and Daisy Buchanan live in East Egg, a high-class, old money town on Long Island. Jay Gatsby lives in West Egg, a less classy, new money town on the Island.
Yet Daisy isn't just a shallow gold digger. She's more tragic: a loving woman who has been corrupted by greed. She chooses the comfort and security of money over real love, but she does so knowingly.
In the course of the novel, and no doubt the new film version, we find out what Gatsby is hiding: not only his criminal bootlegging, but also his family name, Gatz, and his poor, ethnic-American roots, which in the end exclude him from the upper-class Anglo-American social circles he hoped to enter.
October 1917. Gatsby is stationed at Camp Taylor in Louisville, where he meets Daisy Fay (he is 27, she is 18). They are together for a month, and he is shocked by how much in love with her he falls.
It was quite negative and derogatory during the time of the story, commonly referred to as the Roaring Twenties. F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporates aspects of homosexuality in The Great Gatsby through the narrator, Nick Carraway, and his interactions with other male characters throughout the novel.
Unquestionably Nick had sex with McKee, but it's dry, unsentimental, nothing like the sex Gatsby wants to have with Daisy, or Tom with his mistress. Nick's "gayness" is a foil for Gatsby and the crowd.
Gatsby's vision is based on his belief that the past can be repeated. To become worthy of Daisy, Gatsby accumulates his wealth and with the evidence of material success he wanted to rewrite the past and Daisy will be his. Gatsby's downfall is choosing Daisy to represent his great vision. Gatsby dies with faith.
Nick Carraway Quotes
The green light. Nick first sees Gatsby stretching his arms towards a green light at the end of Daisy's dock. Here, the green light is a symbol of hope.
A confrontation between Tom and Gatsby ensues over Daisy's love. Though Gatsby insists that Daisy never loved Tom, Daisy admits that she loved both Tom and Gatsby. The confrontation ends with Daisy leaving with Gatsby in his yellow car, while Tom departs with Nick and Jordan.