How Is Jay Gatsby Selfish

Jay Gatsby is a mystery to all who hear of him. He throws the best parties full of people from both East egg and West egg. Everyone who is anyone, and even those who nobody knows are there. All of them say the same things though. That he was a German spy during the war, he supposed to have been the cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, and it was even told that he killed a man once. Everyone knew of him, but no one really knew him.
When Nick moved in next door Gatsby’s presence was always felt. As is he was a ghost of the house and fine things, but Nick never saw the Great Gatsby until one night after he had been at Daisy Buchanan's. Nick saw Gatsby reaching as if to touch a faint green light across the bay between East and West egg. Nick thought he should go Meet him, but never had the courage, for there was something untruthful and intimidating about his rich neighbor. Almost like he was too perfect to be real. Like a

This made Gatsby even more mysterious. At this party he and Jordan Baker met the old Owl Eyes. He was in the library, and he was shocked at the amount of book Gatsby actually had. Seeing it was almost like the man was actually real he said triumphantly “See! It’s a bona-fide piece of printed material. It fooled me. This fella’s a regular Belasco. It’s a Triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too-didn’t cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?” (The Great Gatsby 45-46). Owl Eyes like every other person out there didn’t think Gatsby was even real, but this showed him that Gatsby has real interest and care enough to buy all these book, all these things, and he doesn’t just leave them there he actually might read them. He might actually have feelings and a personality. Nick and Jordan also started to believe that he was real, but they didn’t understand why he would stay so