This is another one of my favorite stories, I watched the movie many years ago the one with Robert Redford, I have never seen the one with Leo, but the roaring 20s were a fascinating era and this epitomizes the glitz and glam of it all.
It's a tragic story however, full of lies and betrayal, but at the core of it there is just a man, Jay Gatsby who falls in love with a girl named Daisy many years ago, and decides to go away and make himself rich to fit in with the Buchanans.
Jay Gatsby is the hero in this story, and when Nick Carroway says he is worth more than the lot of them, he is right, Jay may not have gotten rich in a totally legal way but in his heart he always just loved Daisy, and in the end it cost him his life because he decided to protect her.
Jay Gatsby was better than the rest because the people he was dealing with were all self absorbed and thought that money could buy their way out of everything, including any type of feeling toward anyone else who wasn't them, they didn't even care for each other the only jealousy came from a sense of someone taking your possession not because they truly loved their spouse.
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