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What Does Meyer Wolfsheim Symbolize In The Great Gatsby

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Meyer Wolfsheim symbolizes what Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby are all doing in this novel: avoiding their reality. Meyer Wolfsheim is a symbol of this because he has been involved in many shady dealings (one of which being fixing the World Series in 1919), but has never been caught. When Nick asks Gatsby why Wolfsheim isn’t in jail, Gatsby says it’s because, “They can’t get him, old sport.” (54). Wolfsheim’s reality would be spending time in jail but he is avoiding it like a fly avoiding being swatted. He (like Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby) has done things that he’d rather keep in the dark then be held responsible for. For Daisy that’s it’s murdering Myrtle, for Tom it’s his affair with Myrtle, and for Gatsby it’s the past that he has thrown aside. Even
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