The Great Gatsby: Parallel between Jesus of Nazareth and Jay Gatsby In his critical essay, “The Mystery of Wickedness”, Bryce J. Christensen writes about the parallel that F. Scott Fitzgerald creates between Jay Gatsby and Jesus of Nazareth from the New Testament of the Christian Bible. Christensen explains that Fitzgerald once wrote a letter to his friend John Jamieson, explaining that he was going to write the story of Jay Gatsby's youth, but did not do so because he wanted to maintain the element of mystery that accompanies the novel. Christensen parallels this with the absence of any details about Jesus' childhood and adolescence in the New Testament. Other parallels described by Christensen include Nick Carraway's description of Gatsby: “(Gatz's) parents were inept and unsuccessful farmers: his imagination had never really accepted them as parents. The truth was that Jay Gatsby was from West Egg, Long Island, born out of his Platonic conception of himself. He was a child of God - a phrase that, if it means anything, means just that - and he had to b...