Jay Gatsby
"Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away."(1.6)
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Mr. Jay Gatsby is just a mysterious unknown man at the beginning of the novel, who hosts extravagant, massive parties. But throughout the book, we learn that Mr. Gatsby is a peculiar young man who lived a poverty-stricken childhood in North Dakota and rose up to becoming insanely and fabulously rich. While achieving his goals of wealth, Gatsby did have to participate in organized crime such as bootlegging (distributing illegal alcohol). We also learn that the extravagant lifestyle that Gatsby lives is all just a show to win over the love of his long-lost beloved Daisy Buchanan, which is his final piece to his "dream" puzzle.