How Is Jay Gatsby Selfish

Who is Gatsby, “Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.”(30). In the novel , “The Great Gatsby” by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. a story told by a previous neighbor of a millionaire takes place in the early 1920s located in New York and new jersey on the west and east egg.The Character Jay Gatsby better known as Gatsby will be analyzed.Gatsby is a military veteran who people believe became a millionaire off bootlegging and various illegal acts. Still Gatsby is a social pillar head considered one of the most important characters in the Novel. Jay is a very free man often doing all he desires, he is most known for his large parties which many people who attended were never invited and couldn't care less about him. Throughout the

Even his closest friends have no concrete information on him and often have to go off rumors to speak of him. During one of Gatsby's famous parties a gaggle of ladies gossiped, ”one time he killed a man who had found out that he was the nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil”(60).Many refer to Gatsby as an German spy or an illegal bootlegger. Many stories may be true but most are formed of the lack of knowledge the people have of Gatsby. At one point Gatsby was with another character in daisy who was trying to introduce him to her wife tom. “An unfamiliar look of embarrassment came over Gatsby's face i turned towards Gatsby but he was no longer there”(74).It is unknown why Mr.Gatsby disappeared so bluntly and

Gatsby has many tall tales and often times he gets trapped in his own lies. Gatsby is a horrible liar this is seen when he is called out for a story he had told. "That's my affair," before he realized that it wasn't the appropriate reply."Oh, I've been in several things," he corrected himself. "I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil business. But I'm not in either one now."(103). Gatsby had so much belief in his lies and fake person that it had all became true to him."He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter.” That's one of his little stunts.”(284-285). Here Gatsby's fake story he had been telling is exposed, but instead of acting shocked or taken back he replied,"What about it?, "I guess your friend Walter Chase wasn't too proud to come in on it."(284-285).He is very undeterred by the fact he was caught in the lie and seemed to have no care in the