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In a society surrounded by somebody’s and nobody’s old money and new money people are not who they seem. Jay Gatsby was genuine to the eye, but beneath the surface he was as fake as those around him. Driven by a woman whose voice was filled with money Gatsby had come to the conclusion that he was nobody without a history and money. Jay Gatsby born James Gatz created himself long before—“when he saw Dan Cody’s yacht drop anchor over the moist insidious flat on Lake Superior and the truth was, Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself…and to his conception he was faithful to the end” (104.) Gatsby had become so obsessed with who he wanted to be that he forgot who he really was.
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