Jay Gatsby as a Pathetic Character in "The great Gatsby" by Fitzgerald

Pathetic is a term used to describe someone who is pitifully unsuccessful. Success is not necessarily measured in wealth or fame, but it is measured by how much one has accomplished in life. A successful person is one who has set many goals for himself and then goes out in life and accomplishes some of them, but goes on living even if failing on others. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a …

…adolescent incapacity to distinguish between dream and reality, between the terms demanded of life and the terms offered.'(Troy 21-22) Works Cited Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Macmillan, 1992. Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Great Gatsby. Ed. Ernest H. Lockridge. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1968. Troy, William. 'Scott Fitzgerald - The Authority of Failure.' F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Arthur Mizener. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1963. 21-22.