Jay Gatsby or Herman Gatz as we have learned to know wasn't that great, and neither was his dream. He seemed all right in the beginning of the novel, then the truth was revealed. Gatsby was just a simple man with a Dream, which was fine, but the means he went by to attain his dream where wrong. He was probably thinking that his ends would justify his means, but he ended up alone and dead in a swimming pool. A bullet was all his dreams got him. I think if he had a different way of trying to reach his goals the whole tragedy of his life could have been avoided.…