Jay Gatsby's Journey

When it mentions how he "sprang from his Platonic conception of himself", it seems like Gatsby had a vision, ever since he was little, of what kind of person he wanted to become. Jay Gatsby was simply a dream that turned into reality for James Gatz. He created his own identity and stayed faithful with it until the end. "He was a son of God" could refer to how he held himself in high regard and how he knew that he was destined for great things or it could actually be referring to Jesus Christ. Either way, the fact that he had an aspiration and he saw it through shows just how ambitious he was about reaching his goals despite how there may have been times in his life where he was discouraged for dreaming too big since he was a farmer's