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Jay Gatzby emerges from James Gatz’s ‘platonic conception of himself’. Seventeen-year-old James Gatz sets out to build a rich life for himself, away from his parents, who were “indolent and unsuccessful farmers.” After several years of struggling as a military man, a sailor, and a bond seller, Gatsby finally makes some money. With this money, Gatsby tries unsuccessfully to lure her lost love, Daisy, away from her husband and child.
character traits
Gatsby is a compulsive liar. He lies about his past to everyone including his close friend Nick and his love Daisy to the end. Perhaps his most popular lie was that he had studied at Oxford because it was a family tradition.
-Gatsby loves to show off his money. Gatsby throws lavish parties for people he doesn’t know. Gatsby lives in a mansion that “was a colossal affair by any measure” “with a tower on one side, gleaming under a fine beard of raw ivy, a marble swimming pool, and over forty acres of lawn and garden.”
Gatsby is a gentleman at heart. He cannot deliberately harm people. Gatsby decides to defend Daisy when she accidentally kills Myrtle. He is even kind in his flamboyant way. Gatsby sends a new evening dress to one of his guests as a gift from her after she accidentally ripped her own dress at one of her parties.
-Gatsby is a vulnerable character. Perhaps that’s why he constantly weaves a tapestry of lies around him like a protective shield. And it is for this reason that he has no close friends.
-Gatsby is a romantic although his romantic dream is based on a rotten ideology.
love and ideology Jay Gatsby loves Daisy because “she was the first nice girl he ever met” and also because she represents for him the rich future he wants for himself: “Daisy, shining like silver, confident and proud above the heated fights of the poor”. . He therefore sets out to earn money with which to get Daisy back. Gatsby does not care that Daisy can only love wealth and that she is too frivolous to love a man.
gloomy ending Gatsby wastes his life in pursuit of a mirage. He thinks that he can win Daisy back with all her newly acquired money and that they can start a new life, easily erasing Daisy’s 5 years of marriage. But all her wealth comes to nothing when Daisy, unable to reciprocate her passionate love, leaves for good at an undisclosed address with her husband Tom.