Jay Gatsby

The novel, The Great Gatsby focuses on one of the focal characters, James Gatz, also known as Jay Gatsby. He grew up in North Dakota to a family of poor farm people and as he matured, eventually worked for a wealthy man named Dan Cody. As Gatsby is taken under Cody’s wing, he gains more than even he bargained for. He comes across a large sum of money, however ends up getting tricked out of ‘inheriting’ it. After these obstacles, he finds a new way to earn his money, even though it means bending the

to Mr. Jay Gatsby, from the famous book, The Great Gatsby. This book was written in the 1920’s, with the narration of Nick Carraway, who met Jay Gatsby and became fairly close to him. Nick lived in East Egg neighboring Mr. Jay Gatsby. Living across the bay in West Egg was, Daisy and Tom Buchanan. Nick is learning how to be non-judgemental toward others, however, with whom he gets along with, they too were privileged. But not Jay Gatsby. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is known

Perhaps one of the most iconic scenes in The Great Gatsby is where the titular character, Jay Gatsby, or James Gatz as he was first known as, meets his untimely end. To understand the nature of Gatsby’s death, first you must know the circumstances that precede it. Myrtle, Mr. Wilson’s wife, was run over by Gatsby’s car, which Daisy was driving. Driven by vengeance and the mistaken belief that Gatsby had killed Myrtle, Mr. Wilson proceeded to murder Gatsby and then himself. While miscommunication is often

The Great Gatsby: the story of the obsessive Jay Gatsby, lies, betrayal, and death. Of all the characters in The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby was by far the greatest and least great characterof them. What limited how deserving he was of the title “great” was that Gatsby lived a life based off of lies and deceit which, arguably, led to his tragic death. Even though Gatsby did some horrible things to get where he was, he did it in order to try to win the heart back of someone special, which helped make

Jay Gatsby is a thirty years old millionaire, who spent his childhood on a rural Farm in North Dakota. He despised poverty and dreamed to become a very rich and sophistication gentleman. Jay left his family’s farm at about 17 to go to St. Olaf’s College but shortly dropped out because he could not bear to be janitor anymore even though it was paying for his tuition. At first we had no clue how Gatsby got his money it was not specified for us for quite a few chapters until nick and Jay went to lunch

Gatsby hero or not? In the 1920s, one famous writer with the name of F. Scott Fitzgerald told and wrote countless of stories involving characters who can lie through their teeth and characters who can love. In the novel The Great Gatsby it contains small pieces of the author's past and he gives small gestures that will tie into what Fitzgerald did in his life as a young adult and it will transfer to the characteristics of Jay Gatsby. This famous piece of literature takes place in Long Island right

Jay Gatsby is the main character in the book "The Great Gatsby". Even though the reader do not know much about him. He is a mysterious guy who throws extravagant parties to attract his long lost love Daisy. During most of the story his personality, character, and background is untold to the readers. But during chapter 6 there is a in depth flashback of Gatsby past and the readers lean about him and why he is who he is. "James Gatz, that was really, or at least legally, his name" page 98. We learned

American dream through the characters in his work The Great Gatsby. He uses Jay Gatsby as a modern twist on the classic tragic hero to show us how Gatsby’s American dream is flawed. Jay Gatsby, being who the story is named after is a very good example of the American dream. He also represents what most people living in 1920s America were striving for, notably, he has become so rich that he throws extravagant parties almost every night. Although Gatsby is seen as being successful, Fitzgerald

While Jay Gatsby was a man of mystery he was also one consumed with superficiality. We do not know much about him until we delve deeper into his background and how it affected him his whole life. Growing up in poverty inclined him to view a wealthy lifestyle with hungry eyes, willing to do anything to achieve it, not thinking twice about the consequences. Wealth was one of many goals Jay Gatsby set in his lifetime, but it was not the most important one. Daisy Buchanan was his last goal and his longest

known as Jay Gatsby. When I first moved here to West Egg a few years ago I quickly took notice of Jay and was determined to find out more about him. To my own surprise, Gatsby grew on me and as time progressed our friendship prospered. You see, Gatsby was different from the people of West Egg, he was better and he deserved better than what he got. He also threw the most outstanding parties in history. {chuckles lightly} Day by day, my respect for this extraordinary man grew and grew stronger. Jay had