Answer:
Here we see a parallel between Gatsby and Jesus, as Gatsby transforms himself into the ideal that he envisioned for himself (a “Platonic conception of himself”) as a youngster and remains committed to that ideal, despite the obstacles that society presents to the fulfillment of his dream.
Explanation:
This is an excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Some scholars think that Fitzgerald was probably influenced in drawing this parallel by a nineteenth-century book by Ernest Renan entitled The Life of Jesus. In this book Jesus is presented as a figure who essentially decided to make himself the son of God, then brought himself to ruin by refusing to recognize the reality that denied his self-conception.
