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- Jay Gatsby represents Jesus Christ.
Aug 8, 2010 · Douglas Taylor was the first to explore at length Gatsby's symbolic identification with Jesus, and other interpreters have noted it, including Robert Emmitt, who sees Gatsby as being informed by th...
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Dec 20, 2018 · Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby represents Jesus Christ. Unlike the aforementioned characters, Gatsby is spoken about, but not properly introduced, until later in the text, much like Jesus who is prophesied about in the Old Testament but becomes flesh in the New Testament.
On the surface, the phrase "son of God" draws a direct comparison to Jesus Christ. One level of irony is the difference between what Christ valued versus what "Jay Gatsby" valued.
As Nick rightly observes, Christ was a servant of beauty. He sought it in the faith and perseverance of the poor and the afflicted, and he had his hope in the knowledge that his kingdom is not of this world. Gatsby perverts that search of beauty, reducing it to materialistic allure alone.
people who approached Jesus early in his ministry and who left pondering a riddle-like parable or a non-committal response. We remember Christ's first miracle in John when, at the wedding party in Cana, he turned six pots of water into wine. The "ruler of the feast" did not know "whence it was," but the source was fully understood by the "ser-
Renan describes a Jesus who is “faithful to his self-created dream but scornful of the factual truth that finally crushes him and his dream”—a very appropriate description of Gatsby. Fitzgerald is known to have admired Renan’s work and seems to have drawn upon it in devising this metaphor.
