Jay Gatsby is a man in his thirties who has risen to the wealthy social class of New York by mean of organized crime. The reader finds out late in the book that he was once known as Jay Gatz, who fell in love with a Louisville sweetheart by the name of Daisy. In fear of rejection, Gatsby hides his financial instability from her, but was later rejected because of it when marriage came into the picture. Gatsby was called off to war and lost his love to the hands of a very wealthy football star named Tom Buchanon. This event in Gatsby’s past fuels his quest in once again obtaining Daisy for himself, as well as accumulating millions of dollars and property in New York’s more e

With the character of Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerald may have mirrored his own life in the jazz age of the 1920’s. Fitzgerald shadowed his own life and his own quest in the obtaining of his dream girl, Zelda. Fitzgerald, the son of a failure father and from a middle to low class family, was content on raising his own social status. Fitzgerald was also rejected in his first engagement due to his low financial status, which parallels with Gatsby’s first rejection by Daisy in Louisville. Fitzgerald also was a member of the army stationed in the very place he fell in love, and then sent into battle away from his sweetheart. Like Gatsby, he goes through great pains and holds jobs that he hates, such as writing short stories, in order to satisfy his love’s extravagant lifestyle. In the end, Gatsby’s love is taken from him by the arrogant Tom, just as Fitzgerald’s own wife slips away from him due to mental problems. Whether or not Fitzgerald intended for Gatsby to portray his own story, the reader will notice some sort of connection to his own life.

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