How To Become Rich In The Great Gatsby

Although the title of the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald perceives him as great by representing him as a wealthy celebrity, he is really not because he gains all of his wealth illegally by bootlegging (buying and selling alcohol), he tries to be someone he’s not by changing his identity, and he fails to have relationship with his lover Daisy. Great is defined as of an extent amount, or considerably above the normal or average. However, Gatsby is far from this even though the title of the book is called The Great Gatsby. To begin with, Gatsby started off not so rich and having a luxurious life but then started to get into the bootlegging business by committing a federal crime by buying and selling alcohol in order to become rich. Later, he becomes one of the richest in New York and the richest person in West Egg. His wealth is represented by “On the weekends his Rolls-Royce became omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city” (3.1). His wealth is being represented by a car which is an icon to rich people who like expressing their luxurious life. …show more content…
However, this is not the case because he changed his name and identity from being James Gatz, a son of a unsucessful farmer transforming to Jay Gatsby who reinvented himself in a new life by living the American Dream. The novel states, “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that he had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but it he could return a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what this thing was” (6.132). Gatsby can’t accept of what his life has become, he altars this by going forward with changing his identity and the way he lives his