The Man Behind Jay Gatsby In the Novel The Great Gatsby, not many people really knew the man known as Jay Gatsby. When he was rich and powerful, he was the man you "want to know." But when he was dead, life went on without him. It seemed as if nobody cared that he was the man behind the parties and all the good times. He was dead and nobody mourned. This shows that the …showed first 75 words of 977 total…

…showed last 75 words of 977 total…is the kind of man that Gatsby was. He is selfish and only wanted one thing from life and that was to live happily ever after with Daisy. After everything was said and done, Daisy never showed up to his funeral. This makes Gatsby's whole existence seem worthless. When Donald Trump is long gone, it seems that life will go on as usually. Like Gatsby, they will only call it "an end of an era."