We have learned a little about Jay Gatsby by what he reveals to Nick and also by what Wolfsheim says about him to Nick. What do you think about Gatsby? Is he on the up and up? Do you have doubts? Consider all the information you have to include your current reading assignment.
i think he is up to no good. i also think he doesnt just get all of his money from his rich family. he might be a drug dealer of some kind with Wolfsheim. i also think he is too upsessed with daisy and he is a stalker!
ReplyDeleteGatsby's shady behavior makes me think that he is hiding something and all the money that he says is inherited isn't really inherited. He throws all of these big parties and spend a lot of money on them but never really participates in them. When everyone else is having fun he only sits around. Also the girls that Nick was talking to at the first Gatsby party he was invited to said that they had heard he might have killed another person, and that to me kind of shows that maybe there is something he's hiding.
ReplyDeleteThis may sound out of this world, but I think Gatsby might be hiriring someone to make the amount of money he makes based on the fact that he doesn't leave the house unless to go meet for lunch with an "old sport" or to do other significant things.
ReplyDeleteHis lie of going to Oxford was not wiped away with the statement Wolfshiem said; "He went to Oggsford College in England." This might be foreshadowing that other lies are going to be revealed late on in the book.
I agree with Brandon,I do believe some of the rumors that have been flying around about Gatsby.
ReplyDeleteFor example, when the two women are talking about Gatsby the reader does have some suspicion that Gatsby is a bootlegger because of the hollow fruits that leave his home and the random calls he gets from different places. One could maybe infer, that he is smuggling alcohol to different places in the United states and Europe. Based on this inference, you could probably say Gatsby is up to no good.