In the well known book The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is known for being very mysterious and elusive; this is portrayed through implied tone and choices made which tells everyone around Jay to agree he’s very secretive. When the book starts, Mr. Gatsby is accused of killing people especially at the first party Nick, our narrator attended. Nick is made aware of this when another party attendee says, “I’ll bet he killed a man.” This is stated very much in the book and is attributed to the shroud of mystery around Mr. Gatsby. As you continue to read the text, you begin to realize this little by little because Nick, even though he is good friends with Mr. Gatsby, is sure to steer clear of Mr. Gatsby’s questionable choices. We know that Mr. Gatsby has a cloud of mystery around …show more content…
Although many people attended his parties and took great advantage of his wealth and generosity, people still threw around incriminating allegations regarding him. One example of this would be at the first party Nick, Mr. Gatsby’s friend, who attended a girl in a yellow dress said, “Someone told me they thought he killed a man once.” Now if people were willing to openly discuss this to new acquaintances, this obviously must’ve been known by Jay Gatsby himself. There were also accusations of him being a German spy on page 30. Which at that time was a very serious accusation considering World War 1 had recently happened and there was a big push to erase anything German. This factor probably led people to be willing to take all the good things from Mr. Gatsby, but never enough to want to be associated with him. When this book was