In the novel, The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, a young man by the name of James Gatz gives the illusion that he is wandering effortlessly through a world full of the extravagant and the luxurious while dealing with a whole population decimated by war. During this time James Gatz manages to make a name for himself and becomes The Great Gatsby A young millionaire in fine New York City that throws very luscious and extravagant parties every weekend to catch his one and only true love, Daisy. When Daisy’s cousin Nick, moves to New York everything changes. Gatsby notices Nick right away and intends to make great use of him to get to Daisy, Nick, however, doesn’t see Gatsby at all at first and instead hears about him through rumors and is
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“You live in West Egg she remarked contemptuously. I know somebody there. I don't know a single . . . You must know Gatsby. Gatsby? Demanded Daisy. What Gatsby?”(Fitzgerald 11) The whole time at West Egg Gatsby had been throwing these amazingly luscious parties to catch the eye of Daisy, but somehow up until this point she hasn’t even heard a single word about him and is shell-shocked when she overhears Nick and Jordan talking about him. Daisy never making an attempt to go to Gatsby’s parties never stopped him from throwing them and still every weekend he would try his hardest to recreate the extravagance of what Gatsby and Daisy had in the form of a party so he could one day lure her back into his arms and once again finally have his one true love, Daisy. Gatsby’s persistence of throwing these parties every weekend to lure her back is what makes Gatsby so extravagant to everyone else. Everyone else saw it as something else, they saw it as just your prototypical everyday rich kid that knew how to throw a great party; and unfortunately for Gatsby that’s all he would ever be to them the extravagantly vibrant and dashing young blonde haired boy from “upstate new york” that knew how to …show more content…
Gatsby is. He was the talk of New York for years because of his parties. So many rumors were being spread about him to the point where you could ask fifty different people, and they would all say something entirely different “Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once. A thrill passed over all of us. The three Mr. Mumbles bent forward and listened eagerly. I don't think it's so much that, argued Lucille skeptically; it's more that he was a German spy during the war. One of the men nodded in confirmation. I heard that from a man who knew all about him, grew up with him in Germany, he assured us positively. Oh, no, said the first girl, it couldn't be that, because he was in the American army during the war. As our credulity switched back to her, she leaned forward with enthusiasm. You look at him sometimes when he thinks nobody's looking at him. I'll bet he killed a man.”(Fitzgerald 43). Nobody truly knew Gatsby. He mostly kept to himself until Daisy's cousin Nick came along and even then, Nick never really knew where Gatsby was all the time “As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements”(Fitzgerald 41). Gatsby is quite literally the living definition of being mysterious. No one knew him, No one knew where he came from, and no one knew where he got
“You live in West Egg she remarked contemptuously. I know somebody there. I don't know a single . . . You must know Gatsby. Gatsby? Demanded Daisy. What Gatsby?”(Fitzgerald 11) The whole time at West Egg Gatsby had been throwing these amazingly luscious parties to catch the eye of Daisy, but somehow up until this point she hasn’t even heard a single word about him and is shell-shocked when she overhears Nick and Jordan talking about him. Daisy never making an attempt to go to Gatsby’s parties never stopped him from throwing them and still every weekend he would try his hardest to recreate the extravagance of what Gatsby and Daisy had in the form of a party so he could one day lure her back into his arms and once again finally have his one true love, Daisy. Gatsby’s persistence of throwing these parties every weekend to lure her back is what makes Gatsby so extravagant to everyone else. Everyone else saw it as something else, they saw it as just your prototypical everyday rich kid that knew how to throw a great party; and unfortunately for Gatsby that’s all he would ever be to them the extravagantly vibrant and dashing young blonde haired boy from “upstate new york” that knew how to …show more content…
Gatsby is. He was the talk of New York for years because of his parties. So many rumors were being spread about him to the point where you could ask fifty different people, and they would all say something entirely different “Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once. A thrill passed over all of us. The three Mr. Mumbles bent forward and listened eagerly. I don't think it's so much that, argued Lucille skeptically; it's more that he was a German spy during the war. One of the men nodded in confirmation. I heard that from a man who knew all about him, grew up with him in Germany, he assured us positively. Oh, no, said the first girl, it couldn't be that, because he was in the American army during the war. As our credulity switched back to her, she leaned forward with enthusiasm. You look at him sometimes when he thinks nobody's looking at him. I'll bet he killed a man.”(Fitzgerald 43). Nobody truly knew Gatsby. He mostly kept to himself until Daisy's cousin Nick came along and even then, Nick never really knew where Gatsby was all the time “As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements”(Fitzgerald 41). Gatsby is quite literally the living definition of being mysterious. No one knew him, No one knew where he came from, and no one knew where he got