Great Gatsby-corruption

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The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a classic American novel about an obsessed man named Jay Gatsby who will do anything to be reunited with the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan. The book is told through the point of view of Nick Caraway, Daisy's cousin once removed, who rented a little cottage in West Egg, Long Island across the bay from Daisy's home. Nick was Jay Gatsby's neighbor. Tom Buchanan is Daisy's abusive, rich husband and their friend, Jordan Baker, has caught the eye of Nick and Nick is rather smitten by her. Gatsby himself is a very ostentatious man and carries a rather mysterious aura about himself which leads to the question: Is Gatsby's fortune a house of cards built to win the love of his life or has Daisy entranced him enough to give him the motivation to be so successful? While from a distance Jay Gatsby appears to be a well-educated man of integrity, in reality he is a corrupt, naive fool.

Jay Gatsby fell in love with a young Daisy Buchanan prior to his military assignment overseas in WWI. Gatsby wanted to marry Daisy but she wouldn't marry him because he was poor and not a socialite. Gatsby then spent the five years, after his return home from the war; he strived to accumulate enough wealth

However, in reality, Gatsby knew he was a corrupt fraud. All the gossip was just an attempt to gain some attention in hopes that Daisy would hear his name in conversation and connect it to his real name (James Gatz). Gatsby kept few friends because he thought his reputation would be more elaborate if no one REALLY knew him. When someone has a friend they tell their friend things they wouldn't tell other people. That is part of being a friend telling your friend secrets and listening to your friends secrets. If you notice when Gatsby became friends with Nick he was telling Nick the real truth, eventually, about everything. Gatsby was a rather boring man in real life. However, his reputation made him infamous in the long island area. With friends his reputation wouldn't be as memorable because all the extravagance people put on their stories wouldn't be there.

Jay Gatsby, by doing various things with his own appearance, tries to leave an impression on people that he is a well-educated man of integrity. His clothes were very flamboyant, such as his pink suit, and meant to show off his wealth and draw attention to himself. He also knew there were many rumors floating around about his life, some of which he put out himself, which were blatant lies, but perpetuated an image he wanted to have hoping that Daisy would hear of him and make the connection. Such rumors about him would float around in his parties such as: "Someone told me they thought he killed a man once" or "...he was a German spy during the war" or "...he was in the American Army during the war." and even "... He told me once he was an Oxford man."(pg.48) Also, there were rumors floating around about his occupation "He's a bootlegger."(Pg. 53). Gatsby did nothing to disparage these rumors either way; in fact, he encouraged them with misrepresented evidence. He once showed a medal to Nick implying that he was a great war hero: "I was promoted to be a major and every allied country gave me a medal even Montenegro. Little Montenegro even gave me a medal"(pg.70). Gatsby also constantly kept a photo of him and some friends from the war at Oxford, to which he later admitted was just for a visit.

to receive Daisy's love and attention.

Most of all Gatsby was a naive fool. Gatsby had spent the last five years of his life working towards what Daisy wanted five years before. Gatsby finally achieved it and he expected Daisy to have stayed the same for those five years. The Daisy that Gatsby fell in love with is not the same woman he would eventual

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