Mr jay gatsby biography

Character in the novel The Great Gatsby

Fictional character

Jay Gatsby (originally named James Gatz) is the titular fictional character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby.

The character is an enigmatic nouveau richemillionaire who lives in a luxurious mansion on Long Island where he often hosts extravagant parties and who allegedly gained his fortune by illicit bootlegging during prohibition in the United States.

Fitzgerald based many details about the fictional character on Max Gerlach,^[1] a mysterious neighbor and World War I veteran whom the author met in New York during the raucous Jazz Age.^[1] Like Gatsby, Gerlach threw lavish parties, never wore the same shirt twice, used the phrase "old sport", claimed to be educated at Oxford University, and fostered myths about himself, including that he was a relation of the German Kaiser.

The character of Jay Gatsby has been analyzed by scholars for many decades and has given