What are some quotes (chapter and page) that describe Jay Gatsby as being Christ-like?I am doing an essay describing how Jay Gatsby, in The great...

On the first or second page of Chapter 6 of The
Great Gatsby (my pagination is likely different from yours), Nick
narrates:

I suppose he'd had the name ready for a
long time, even then. His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people--his
imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay
Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.
He was a son of God--a phrase which, if it means anything,
means just that--and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast,
vulgar and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a
seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful
to the end.

Using Christian imagery and metaphor,
Nick says that Gatsby was his own God and, for practical means, spawned himself. His
re-invented self, Jay Gatsby, was a kind of savior and sacrifice for the old self, for
it/he was full of promise and idealism.  This process is much like the Christian concept
of salvation, that a sinner is born again, and, later, becomes baptized, cleansed and
reborn into the new faith.

As such, Jay Gatsby, this new
version of James Gatz, is analogous to America itself.  America too spawned from the Old
World (Europe) and re-created itself as a land of promise and
idealism.

Earlier in the novel, Gatsby also connects the
"son" to "God" when he asks Nick his opinion of
him:

"I'll tell you
God's truth." His right hand suddenly ordered
divine retribution to stand by. "I am the
son of some wealthy people in the middle-west--all dead now. I was
brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated
there for many years. It is a family
tradition."

It's all a lie, of course, but
Gatsby's sacrosanct posturing is so overt that it seems like he has convinced himself of
his lie.  All this is very much like the way nationalistic people talk about America: in
glowing terms.  These conscious lies are what we want to believe about our country and
ourselves.  It's all part of the American dream.