Theme Of Wolfshiem In The Great Gatsby

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Our side character is Wolfshiem. He is an infamous gambler that claims to have fixed the 1919 world series. He also tried to pull Nick into his and Gatsby's "business" which was not legal. We chose Wolfshiem because of how little we knew about his personality which would allow us to more freely project his image in our still. Also we chose him because of how he is so close to the way Gatsby got his money which would allow us to show how new money worked.

We used the new money theme. This shows the inter working of the new money. Wolfshiem and Gatsby worked together and ran drug stores around the country. This is a big part of Wolfshiem's character in the book because it is one of the only things that we know about him. This shows up and coming

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