Jay Gatsby of F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby is, as critic Gary J. Scrimgrour suggests, "a boor, a roughneck, a fraud, and a criminal." Even though throughout the novel Gatsby appears to have moments of greatness, these are part of the overall facade that Gatsby creates in order to win the heart of Daisy Buchanan. In the end, Gatsby's plans to woo Daisy ruin the lives of many of the characters in the novel, including his own.
             Interweaved throughout the plot of the novel, are signs of Gatsby's rude, insensitive, and uncouth behavior. He exposes his affair with Daisy to Tom by insisting she never loved him. "Your wife doesn't love you. She's never loved you. She loves me," Gatsby insisted (137). "Oh you want to much! I love you now – isn't that enough? I can't help what's in the past. I did love him once but I loved you too,"(139) Daisy protested. Unfortunately, the damage was already done. Tom was angry because his suspicions were confirmed; he had lost his wife to another man. Gatsby was upset because he didn't prove that Daisy never loved Tom. He realized that the five years that he spent loving her from afar, she was building a life and family with Tom. Daisy was flustered and upset because she had let both Tom and Gatsby down and it seemed as if her whole life was falling apart. Daisy was so upset that on the ride home from her visit to the city with Gatsby, Tom, and Nick she drove too quickly and erratically so she struck and killed Myrtle Wilson, ending her life all because Gatsby had to claim Daisy for himself. The death of Myrtle Wilson in turn ruined the life of her husband, Mr. Wilson, who eventually ended up killing himself.
             Jay Gatsby is really a fraudulent name for James Gatz, which suggests that Gatsby is a fraud. He can never seem to keep his story straight as to where he is from, and many people question his origins. Th...