Jay Gatsby

Gatsby

Is the Mysterious, rich, protagonist of the novel. While the knowlege of how he made his money it is obvious that is was through organized crime. When Tom investigates Gatsby he discovers something about Drug stores. Drug stores were often envolved in moving alcohol during the prohibition days. This suggests that Gatsby was a bootlegger. Gatsby's dealings with Mier Wolfsheim further support this idea. Gatsby's driving motivation for making these latge amounts of cash is to appeal to Daisy Buchanan and perhaps win her back from rich boy Tom Buchanan. Gatsby's love for Daisy Dates back to before he left for war. Daisy was a rich girl who stole Gatsby's heart. Gatsby, at the time, was too poor to be able to support Daisy's way of life. Gatsby did a little sould searching in Europe after the war and when he returned he found that his love Daisy had already married Tom Buchanan. Gatsby is now rich and using every bit of it to take Daisy and himself back to the time before he left for the military. Gatsby says it himself on page 111, "Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can. "

Page 48: Elegant, young, roughneck, year or two over thirty.

His formality of speech just missed being absurd.

Page 50: Tanned skin, short hair, he grew more dignified as the party grew more crazy.

Robert Redford stars in the film "The Great Gatsby" in 1974.

The car to the right has great symbolisim in this novel. If you would like to read about the symbolic meanings of certian aspects of the car then click here.

This car Owned by Gatsby was the car that Daisy Buchanan accidentally ended the life of Myrtle Wilson with, in turn causeing the death of our Protagonist Jay Gatsby.

The Picture to the left is somewhat what Gatsby's house would look like. This also has a symbolic meaning. Gatsby's house is also foreign looking, which at the time was unpopular because of the war overseas. People did not like foreigners during this time. It would be distasteful for a rich man to live in such a mansion.