In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, set in the 1920’s, the narrator Nick Carraway befriends a self-made millionaire named Jay Gatsby. Gatsby was a military man who had grown up in poverty and made his millions in the illegal sale of fake bonds. The sale of these bonds allowed Gatsby to live a lavish life style and throw extraordinary parties in his luxurious mansion, all paid for by illegal activities. Fitzgerald depicts Gatsby as being a criminal. However, there is an underlying greatness that Fitzgerald wants to be realized about Gatsby. Throughout the book Fitzgerald gives subtle hints that Gatsby is an immoral man. Nick describing Gatsby as having flaws states, “Who represented everything for which I had an unaffected scorn.”