In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald expresses the theme of a “self-made” man through the characterization of Jay Gatsby and his delusional mindset. Jay Gatsby, a self-made man who lives in West Egg, is in love with the young woman named Daisy Fay, who is known as Daisy Buchanan because of her marriage with Tom Buchanan. In hopes of rekindling a spark that was diminished five years ago between Daisy and himself, Gatsby invites her and Nick, Daisy’s cousin and Gatsby’s neighbor, to his lavish home. In his obsession with Daisy, Gatsby has elevated her onto a high pedestal, to the point, “when Daisy tumbled short of his dream… because of the colossal vitality of his illusion” (Fitzgerald 95). Gatsby’s image of her has not changed