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Gatsby’s Personality
Desperate
Ø ‘What’s your opinion of me, anyhow?’ (Page 41) – Gatsby seems to have a
need for clarification in this quotation
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He wishes for Nick’s
approval in his own roundabout way
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(Page 56) – He has been counting down to the
month the years since he last saw Daisy and this adds an air of
desperation to his character in that he has been anxious to see her since
they last parted ways and he could not come back to see her
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Ø ‘He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy
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Lonely
Ø ‘…I don’t see how you live there all alone’ – I keep it always full of
interesting people, night and day
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Celebrated people’ (Page 58) –Gatsby has led a lonely existence since
Daisy left him and although he keeps his house full of people they are
always different people who he is not close to
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He worked his
socks off in order to gain enough money to please Daisy but this led him
to a secluded, solitary existence
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’ (Page 33) – This quotation makes him seem untouchable and
isolated because he is not close enough to any of the people who enter his
house for them to approach him directly
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However, another possible reason for his solitude may be
because he is petrified to go and talk to people or he is terrified of what
they could do to him, how they could hurt him
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Ø ‘…I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited
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This could be due to the amount of money they have as no one
of lower standing will turn up, and even if they did they would be
shunned
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’ (Page 37) –
The emptiness of Gatsby’s house could also be portrayed as the emptiness

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inside Gatsby himself since Daisy left him
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Bossy
‘You sure you want me to come?’ – ‘Absolutely, old sport’ (Page 57) – He
doesn’t give Nick the chance to say ‘no’ and instead expects him to come
to be the buffer between himself and Daisy
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Even
though Gatsby comes from ‘new money’ as opposed to ‘old money’ he is
still above Nick because he has a lot of it
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– He expects to get his own
way because he is richer than Nick
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This elevated the Buchanan’s
in society even though they had about the same amount of money
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It is almost like he is afraid that if he turns away she will disappear
and he will have lost her again
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‘Five years next November’ (Page 56) – This quotation, said automatically
and as though he hasn’t stopped thinking about her since he left for the
war, might imply that he is hopeful for Daisy’s love and will continue to
hope for it even though she has proved time and time again – firstly by
marrying Tom Buchanan and secondly by never turning up to the parties
that he throws specifically for her – that she does not truly care about him
and may not even know the meaning of love as she married Tom merely
for his social status and money
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Gatsby, but he was no longer there
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He is nothing remarkable to look at so he is able
to slip from one place to another with no one really realizing where he is
or who he is talking to
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(Page 41) – He has little to say on any subject matter
and so no one knows what his opinion is
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‘He hurried the phrase ‘educated at Oxford’… ‘and with this doubt, his
whole statement fell to pieces
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’ (Page 43)



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