Jay Gatzby stems from James Gatz’s ‘Platonic self-conception’. At seventeen years of age, James Gatz sets out to carve out a rich life, away from his parents, who were “indolent and unsuccessful farmers.” After several years of struggling as a military man, a sailor, and a bond salesman, Gatsby finally makes some money. With this money, Gatsby unsuccessfully tries to lure her lost love, Daisy, away from her husband and son.

character traits

-Gatsby is a compulsive liar. He lies about his past to everyone, including his close friend Nick and his beloved Daisy until the very end. Perhaps the most popular lie of his 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, brand new 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 can’t deliberately hurt people. Gatsby decides to defend Daisy when she accidentally kills Myrtle. He’s even kind in his wacky way. Gatsby sends one of his guests a new evening dress as a gift from her after she accidentally ripped her own dress at one of her parties.

-Gatsby is a vulnerable character. Perhaps that is why he constantly weaves a tapestry of lies around him as 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, gleaming 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 doesn’t care that Daisy can only love wealth and that she is too frivolous to love a man.

grim ending Gatsby wastes his life in pursuit of a mirage. He thinks he can win Daisy back with all her newly acquired money and 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 return her passionate love, leaves forever at an undisclosed address with her husband Tom.