How Does Gatsby Deserve His Title

Could it be? A not-so-great Gatsby? In the book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, This is proved all throughout the book in many different scenarios. Jay Gatsby shows how untrustworthy he is, how he got his unexplained money, and how nobody truthfully cares about him in the novel. Jay Gatsby clearly doesn't deserve his title.

Jay Gatsby shows he doesn't deserve his title through multiple events and especially through his untrustworthiness. Examples include how he told Nick he was,”A German Spy during the war”

(44) and how he,” Attended Oxford University” (49) even though he only attended Oxford for a semester, this reveals how he can lie about anything to make himself look better. Gatsby also stated he came from “A wealthy family in the Midwest” (49) , although he grew up poor, and attained all of his money through illegal bootlegging in cooperation with Meyer Wolfsheim, the man who fixed the World Series in 1919. Here, Gatsby in both instances is singlehandedly lying straight through his teeth to everyone around him. Jay Gatsby even lies about his own name, James Gatz, which further shows how deceptive he is. All of these are illustrations of why Mr. Gatsby is an untrustworthy person and does not deserve his title.

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Gatsby gained his power by gaining money from a mysterious source, and now spends it like it grows on trees. He earned his money illegally and does not deserve any of it for his immature actions. An example in the book of him flaunting his money is while Daisy and Nick are at his house and they’re in his bedroom “He grabs very high quality, expensive shirts and he throws them all around the room” (pg 92) showing that they mean nothing to him. Another example is when he is at Nick’s house and accidentally knocks his clock off the mantle. Without hesitating gatsby says he will pay for it. These are all instances that show why Gatsby doesn’t deserve his

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Who are gatsbys honest friends? Nobody cares about Gatsby because of his personality and the way he is to people. Jay Gatsby is and example of someone that nobody really likes. An example of this is: “ Hes afriad. Hes waited so long. He thought you might be offended. You see hes a regular though underneath it all.” (84) He doesn’t have many friends and everyone uses him for his giant house and parties. An example of this is when he has a party at the beginning of the book nobody knows him or what he looks like they just heard about the big party he was having so they went without even knowing who he was or what he looked like. Nick said, “ Hes a bootlegger”(65) shows that people talked bad about him and didnt like him. Another example is when he died nobody showed up at his funeral. His only true friend was Nick but people delt with him because they wanted his parties and all the things he did to still happen.
So does Gatsby deserve his title? Jay Gatsby clearly does not deserve his title. Points such as how untrustworthy he was, how nobody truthfully cares about him, and how he got all of his unexplained millions explains how he is not a very good person in general. Almost everything he does is illegal and just because his name is, Jay Gatsby, he works and manages to get his way with everything.