STARTING OVER AND HAVING IT ALL The Edenic Myth in The Great Gatsby Picture this: You are the director of a high budget feature film. You are in the process of filming a brilliant scene in which a man and a woman have just escaped from a near-death situation and have found themselves atop a mountain in the pouring rain, but alas, safe and out of harm's way. In the midst of all the insanity, …showed first 75 words of 2220 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2220 total…will never turn back. There is not, nor will there ever be, a perfect world. There is just a world where we do the best that we can. Jay Gatsby could not accept this. He believed that if he wanted it bad enough, he could create a perfect world: A new Eden. He could not. And, because he chose to fight this internal war alone, that is how he died: Alone, and a beaten man.