Jay Gatz In The Great Gatsby

Jay Gatsby never truly existed. Jay Gatsby, the character for the which the book “The Great Gatsby” is named for, is merely an image or idea created by the mind of a young James “Jimmy” Gatz. James Gatz came from an extremely poor family of farmers in North Dakota. He wanted so badly to escape his roots and become another person entirely that he created a way out of it through Jay Gatsby. The transformation from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby can be seen clearly in chapter 6 of “The Great Gatsby”. Gatsby was born James Gatz, the child to dirt poor farmers in North Dakota. He loathed the life around him, so he created the man in his mind that he wanted to become. The man he became was caught up in delusions of wealth, the past, and Daisy Buchanan. He was changed from the moment he met Daisy. Although he had always hated the poverty he was born into,meeting Daisy only fed the fire. Jay saw her as above him and wanted to become worthy of her by becoming rich, by any means necessary. He started into the life of organized crime by smuggling alcohol into America illegally. James Gatz was a dreamer dreaming his way out of his hated life through his imagination while Jay took extreme measures to ensure it happened. Nick notes that “...it was already Jay Gatsby who …show more content…
He had everything he wanted in relation to his dreams as a child. He had accomplished exactly what he wanted. However, the color blue is often used to describe Gatsby.For example, Gatsby’s gardens are described as blue and a place where “...men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.” (Fitzgerald, 39) This reveals Gatsby’s loneliness and melancholy in his heart and his attempts to get Daisy to show when she doesn’t only makes him more sad and lonely. This loneliness was brought on by his change in identity and his hopes of acquiring something out of his