I suppose he’d had the name ready for a long time, even then. His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people—his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.
1. The event that happened with Mr. Cody was what truly Jumpstarted Gatsby;s dream of changing his stars. It emphasizes Fitzgerald’s idea that you can pull yourself up from nothing and can acheive everything. It also shows that the road to sucess takes a lot of will power and determination to get to that place however. Sometimes even something as drastic as a name, personality, and lifesyle change.
2. Gatsby was hiding his past and for good reason, it could ultimately destroy him. Gatsby also is a determined and powerful individual propelled forth by trying to gain love. Even though he wmay not be trying to better his life for the best reasons at least he is trying his hardest to do so. Gatsby’s determination will ultimately get him into trouble as he is to aggressive in his words with Tom and Gatsby’s dream may be over quicker then it began. It appears to be the beginnings of his unraveling.
“and if you want to take down any addresses here’s my little gold pencil.”
3. The mention of daisy’s pencil being gold is a representation of her wealth and that she carries it where ever and when ever she goes out.
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