There are two words that properly describe Mr. Jay Gatsby; a phony and charismatic person. Gatsby has a very strong personality and will not give up on his so called “American Dream”. However, nobody knows the real Gatsby, not even Nick Caraway at first who later we see as Gatsby’s one and only true friend.
Jay Gatsby is a man in his mid-thirties who lives a more or less of an extravagant life which he is financing by the great deal of money he miraculously came about in some way that nobody is for certain of. In all reality nobody knows much about him at all, they only know him from the extravagant, lavish parties that he throws in hopes that one day his true love, Daisy will show up. Rumors spread like wildfire from different people when Nick asked, “… He’s a nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm’s. That’s where all his money comes from” (35). “He killed a man once… He was a German spy during the war… He was in the American Army…” (44). This confused and worried Nick until he heard what he thought to be the truth from Gatsby himself.
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“Well, I’m going to tell you something about my life… I don’t want you to get the wrong idea of me from all these stories you hear… I’ll tell you God’s truth… I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West—all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford…” (65). Nick was truly convinced that his whole story was one lie upon another, especially the way Gatsby hesitated and rush through certain words. This was before Gatsby showed him his two precious jewels: the photo of himself at Oxford and the medal from Montenegro, which served as complete astonishment to Nick. He was still very reluctant in believing some of the other stories Gatsby told him prior to