How Does Jay Gatsby Change

The Changing of Jay Gatsby Jay Gatsby plays a big part in the Great Gatsby. Take a look inside this super rich and secretive person. Gatsby is known as the guy who throws the biggest parties on the West Egg. Pursuing Daisy Buchanan, a young wealthy woman who he loved in his youth who he tries everything in his power to get her back. Jay Gatsby changes periodically throughout this book, and readers get to know more about him as they read. Nick Carraway is the narrator of this story; he tells the story through his eyes. Nick is Daisy's cousin and becomes a great friend of Gatsby’s. Nick receives a personal invitation to one of Gatsby’s parties. This was important to Nick because most people don’t even meet Gatsby while attending his parties.

As they drive to the city, Gatsby tells Nick about his past, but his story is a little unbelievable at first. He claims, for instance, to be the son of wealthy, deceased parents from the Midwest. When Nick asks which Midwestern city he is from, Gatsby replies, “San Francisco.” But San Francisco isn’t a part of the Midwest. Gatsby then lists a long and very detailed set of accomplishments: he claims to have been educated at Oxford, to have collected jewels in the capitals of Europe, to have hunted big game, and to have been awarded medals in World War I by multiple European countries. “He hurried the phrase “educated at Oxford,” or swallowed it, or choked on it, as though it had bothered him before.” (Fitzgerald, 48) Seeing Nick’s skepticism, Gatsby produces a medal from Montenegro and a picture of himself playing cricket at Oxford. After the lunch in New York, Nick sees Jordan Baker, who finally tells him the details of her mysterious conversation with Gatsby at the party. She relates that Gatsby told her that he is in love with Daisy Buchanan. Nick and Gatsby set up a meeting between Gatsby and

"Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay" (Fitzgerald, 78) Gatsby wants Daisy to see his house and his wealthiness. Gatsby also didn’t throw parties anymore because Daisy was not happy about them. Gatsby was born James Gatz on a North Dakota farm, and though he attended college at St. Olaf in Minnesota, he dropped out after two weeks, loathing the humiliating janitorial work by means of which he paid his tuition. He worked on Lake Superior the next summer fishing for salmon and digging for clams. One day, he saw a yacht owned by Dan Cody, a wealthy copper mogul, and rowed out to warn him about an impending storm. The grateful Cody took young Gatz, who gave his name as Jay Gatsby, onboard his yacht as his personal assistant. One hot day the group decided to go to lunch, that's when Gatsby says to Tom that Daisy doesn’t love him and that she loves Gatsby. The group bickers for quite awhile and eventually heads back home, on the way home Daisy ran over Myrtle, who is Tom’s mistress, and killed