Some literary scholars believe that Fitzgerald raised Jay Gatsby to the level of mythical.
Richard Lehan sees Gatsby as “a man whose intensity of dream partook of a state that
embodied America itself. Gatsby is the last of the romantic heroes whose energy and
sense of commitment take him in search of his personal grail.” Do you see Gatsby as the
mythical hero symbolic of America? Why or why not? If he is not mythical, then how
would you describe Gatsby?
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