Character Analysis On The Great Gatsby

While Nick and Gatsby are on there way for lunch Nick feels that in the time his met Gatsby he has only spoken to him six time and finds him to be a person who “has little to say”.Then suddenly Gatsby brakes the silence while they are in the car by asking Nick “Look here old sport.” he broke out surprisingly “what’s your opinion of me, anytime?”(65) Gatsby although not very many know who he is seem to know and hear the conversations that people make up of him while at his parties.Gatsby has been seen as a character who is very mysterious from the beginning of the book and throughout his life. He begins to tell Nick about his past in being in the war and how he develop through his time of being in it. Gatsby pulls out, “ a piece of metal shing on a ribbon” the one he got when he got promoted to Major. When Gatsby pulls out this metal there seems to be a feeling of humbleness in him that fact that he is a rich man carrying around a metal like this in his pocket shows he has not forgetting where he came home.As he begins to about where he came from and his past while Gatsby is telling him about where he is from he seems to hurry when he says the phrase “educated at Oxford” as if it bothered him to say. While he is telling Nick his story it seems to be highly improbably which lead Nick to believe its not truth. …show more content…
Gatsby begins to talk about his family, and says “My family all died and I came into a good deal of money”(65) while he says this his voice seems to show the emotion as if the memory still haunted