Edenic Myth in The Great Gatsb

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, …

…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.