Jay Gatsby, roles
He is charming, a good host and he come across with his own mystery. Jay Gatsby had his personal experience of becoming rich with a poor status. He was a self-made man; he has the driving determination to become wealthy. This describes the title of the “Great” Gatsby. His entire desire through out the novel is to impress Daisy and win her love back.
"[Gatsby] wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was." (Fitzgerald, 111-112)
"[Gatsby] wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was." (Fitzgerald, 111-112)
Jay Gatsby, Characteristics
"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." (Fitzgerald, 104)
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