In the novel The Great Gatsby the main character is Jay Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby is a man of great wealth and suspicions. He has lived his life to become someone that was truly that of the upper class. He does this in may ways. We find out that he loves a married woman. Her name is Daisy Buchanan and she is a very wealthy lady also. We find out that Jay has been living his life so that he can acquire Daisy his true love. The only problem is that he does not understand her selfishness, but he only sees her as she was ten years before. This is one of the reasons that he dies.
             Mr. Gatsby is a character during the beginning of the play that we do not know much about. There are a lot of rumors about how and where he got his wealth. They also don't know about his past. They talked a lot about who he was and there where a lot of wild guessing going about. "I don't think it's so much that," argued Lucille skeptically; "it's more that he was a German spy during the war." One of the men nodded in confirmation. "I heard that from a man that knew all about him, grew up with him in Germany," he assured us positively. "Oh no," said the first girl, 'it couldn't be that, because he was in the American Army during the war." (Page 48) This quote shows us some of the gossip that goes on throughout the play. No one is quite sure of what Gatsby did. We find out later in the book that he was in the army on the Americans side. We also find out where he had gotten his wealth. He was a bootlegger from Chicago and move to New york in search of his true love Daisy.
             Jay is a man that is so madly in love with this girl he does not see her faults. He is still living on what happened in the past. He does not understand that Daisy has become a total consumer. She does not care about anything but herself. She even thinks her kid is only good for using as a display. She has ta
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