Jay Gatsby
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- Jay Gatsby
- Rose from an impoverished childhood to being fabulously wealthy
- Motivation for becoming rich.
- Daisy
- Met Her as a young Military man in Louisville
- Lied to her about his background-Felt unworthy to her.
- She promise to wait for him when he went off to war. However she married Tom Buchanan in 1919
- Gatsby therefore wants to win her back.
- Holds lavish partys
- Has a very a gaudy mansion on West Egg
- Has a very a gaudy mansion on West Egg
- Devoted to her
- Romantic Hero
- Holds lavish partys
- In getting Daisy he can prove to himself he belongs to the upperclass
- Gatsby therefore wants to win her back.
- She promise to wait for him when he went off to war. However she married Tom Buchanan in 1919
- Lied to her about his background-Felt unworthy to her.
- Very shy when he finally meets her
- Comic
- Met Her as a young Military man in Louisville
- Daisy
- Participated in organized crime.
- Bootlegging
- Meyer Wolfsheim
- Connected with New York's underworld
- Shady, mysterious
- Gets calls from Chicago and Phillidelphia
- Places associated with crime in the 1920s
- Self made man
- Motivation for becoming rich.
- Real Gatsby
- Naive
- Innocent
- Hopefull
- stakes everything on his dreams
- He has a dream an vision of Daisy that is unrealistic and which she can not fufil
- This breaks down revealing how wealth and money are linked to corruption
- Loyal
- Good Hearted
- Wilson and him are similar in the way they both lose out to Tom
- Introduced chapter 3
- First/Original Impressions
- Aloof, Enigmatic Host
- Surrounded by rumours at the party
- Lot's of gossip about him in New York
- Catherine, Myrtle's sister tells him rumours she heard.
- In chapter 1
- ''Secure position of his feet''
- ''Come out to determine what share was his of the local heavens''
- Nick sees him as controlling and powerful, not unlike Tom Buchanan.
- ''Secure position of his feet''
- Nick sees him as controlling and powerful, not unlike Tom Buchanan.
- Mysterious and strange
- 'he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way'
- Aloof, Enigmatic Host
- First impressions very different from real Gatsby.
- Love sick
- Naive
- Blinded by his love for Daisy
- emotional guy
- We realise later in the book Gatsby has reinvented himself
- Real name James Gatz
- Has an extraordinary ability to change his hopes and dream into reality
- This is why he is referred to as 'Great'
- Ironic as no one comes to his funeral
- Daisy unworthy of his adoration
- He is like an illusion
- This is why he is referred to as 'Great'
- First/Original Impressions
- Dies at the end of book, killed by Wilson
- Hero and main focus of the book
- Rose from an impoverished childhood to being fabulously wealthy
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