The Great Gatsby 9

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rich or famous; he wants to be a somebody, and not the poor farm boy that he merle is. He feels that he can reinvent himself into the person he thought he should be. He renames himself Jay Gatsby and leaves home. He feels that if other people think that he is the person he wants to be, then he will really become that person. He lies about where he comes from to anyone that may ask. He knows from a young age how to deceive people and he does not think twice of it. After young Gatsby leaves home, he does not work like a man driven to achieve greatness, he works “, half fierce, half lazy” (104). He was better at using young woman rather than manual labor. “Since they spoiled him he became contemptuous of young virgins because they were ignorant, of the others” (104). From a young age Gatsby is already corrupt, but only on a small scale. He has no real driving force to motivate him, he is happy with just taking advantage of young women. It will take ...

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young man, looks for the easy way. He admits to his neighbor and Daisy’s cousin Nick Carraway that he “Was in the drug store business” (95). The drug store business during prohibition meant that the person was a bootlegger. Bootlegging was a highly profitable business, but it was also extremely violent. People were often killed for their rackets (their bootlegging operations). Bootleggers were commonly associated with gangsters who carry out their acts of brutality. Gatsby does business with the notorious gangster Meyer Wolfshiem. Together “, He and Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side street drug stores [in New York] and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over ...

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