“I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few quests who had actually been invited. People were not invited- they went there.”(34) Gatsby held parties almost every weekend. People would come from far and wide to attend these extravagant parties. He had a live orchestra, and he also had it catered. This we later find out was all just in hopes that his love, Daisy, would come to one of these parties. "[Gatsby] wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life

“’He’s a bootlegger… One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.’”(61) The Gatsby was said to have once killed a man to obtain all of his wealth. This man was Dan Cody who was his “mentor” and gave Gatsby his first taste of wealth. Cody was a millionaire yachtsman who was found dead one day, and his fortune was supposed to go to Gatsby however, a woman named Ella Kaye claimed it was rightfully hers and Gatsby never saw a penny. Gatsby made all of his money on his own. "His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God...and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented...Jay Gatsby...and to this conception he was faithful to the end."(107) That is one of the aspects that made him a hero, his wealth was great and it was self made.

"[Gatsby's smile had] a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life....It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself."(54) Gatsby was a genuine good guy. He had a dec

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