The Great Gatsby - Gatsby and His Aura

The Great Gatsby Ð'- Gatsby and his aura

In the novel Ð'' The great Gatsby', the characters are each illustrated in unique and individual styles, and each have strong effects on the flow of the story. However, Jay Gatsby, is described by F. Scott Fitzgerald in such a way that forms a rather mystical and distinctive aura around him. Yet, despite his mysterious identity, he is much admired by the narrator, Nick Carraway. It is the aura around Gatsby that continues the story with tension which creates the desire to uncover Gatsby's identity for the readers.

The novel is somewhat segmented into three sections in Nick Carraway's point of view. In the commencing part of the book, we are not given much accurate details about him, only for the fact that he's a wealthy neighbor of Nick Carraways', living in a grand mansion by himself, and known by the people in the East Egg too. Our narrator, Nick, soon discovers that his neighbor, holds grand parties every Saturdays for people who he not even invite, with orchestras and all kinds of cuisine. I believe he was in eager to find out more about his neighbor, as he agrees to go to the party at once, and is pleased with Gatsby's invitation by his "majestic hand". When he arrives at the party, Gatsby's nowhere to be seen and although he "makes an attempt to find [the] host", he's neglected by others with "stares in such an amazed way, " and " vehement denies without any knowledge of his movements", as if Gatsby's absence is utterly normal. At the party, our narrator finds out all kinds of rumors about him, that he "killed a man once", and that "he's a german spy", but some insist that "he fought in the American army". Nick later on also finds out that the books in Gatsby's library are real, unlike other superficial plutocracies. With such contrasting rumors and distinctive qualities, Nick is puzzled about Gatsby's identity. Just then, he talks to a random guy wondering where the host is, only later to find out that he's Gatsby. Being thrown all the uninspected qualities, Nick concludes: "[he's] one of the few honest people that [he] has ever known.

Nevertheless, as the story flows, Fitzgerald slightly uncovers Gatsby, with gossips and rumors about him that even more elevate the curiosity. Gatsby is still viewed as a generous man, with unknown source of his wealth to many. Then, Nick and Gatsby go on a drive together, where Nick and Gatsby leads a conversation in which he describes as a "disconcerting ride". Gatsby unexpectedly asks Nick on "his opinion of him". He seems to know about "the bizarre accusations", and wants to elaborate about his life, to keep Nick away from "getting new ideas of [him]." Although he declares that he's telling "God's truth", the details Nick finds out in this conversation seems dubious. For example, "He's the son of some wealthy people in the middle west, Sanfrancisco" Ð'-when San Francisco is often not counted as a middle western part of America- , "[his]family all died when I came into a good deal of money"-when we later find out that he's dad is alive-, "he