Meyer Wolfsheim doesn't take on a big roll as far as we've seen. His character is never developed so we know he can't be too important, but we do find out some things about him that also pertain to Gatsby's past. Wolfsheim appears to be caught up in some shady business that Gatsby is also a part of. This is a big step for the book because until now, we don't know a great deal of what Gatsby's real past was like. Nick finds out through meeting Wolfsheim about how Gatsby is in some business that could be seen as tainted and mysterious.When he offers Nick a "business gonnegtion" that could have made him some extra cash, it seems by the way he's talking about the business that it's illegal. In this sense, we as an audience start to associate Gatsby with this kind of risky business and provides an inference we must make about Gatsby-whether he's a nice guy in a bad business or that he's a little shady himself.
As we are provided with the past of Gatsby and Daisy, we start to feel more connected to Gatsby. The story of a boy falling in love with a girl before he goes to war- a perfect love story. However, while he is gone, the girl runs off to marry another man for his money. In any setting, an audience would feel bad for the boy. The boy is Gatsby and we all think of Daisy as a selfish girl. We side with Gatsby and become emotionally connected to him because he is now the victim in this situation. As we find out, he is still helplessly in love with Daisy and goes to extremes to try to win her back. We see Gatsby now as a romantic, sweet man and he immediately becomes the hero where we are all rooting for him. With Tom as an awful husband who cheats and beats Daisy, we are all waiting for that right moment for Gatsby to sweep Daisy off her feet and carry her into the sunset.
The rest of Gatsby's past story gives us the impression that he's not as perfect as he may appear to be. Rather than growing up in a rich family and inheriting a wealthy fortune, he was very poor.This changes our opinion of Gatsby yet again because we see that he has not been honest with Nick in telling him the past before we find these things out. This makes the readers wonder if we can trust anything else Gatsby has told us and we wonder how reliable of a person he really is.
My overall impression of Gatsby changes throughout these three chapters. Even though we see that he has lied about many things, I find him to be a generally nice human being with good goals and ambitions. We are able to see what a sweet man he is because he spent his whole life building up an image that Daisy would want to see and he becomes someone she would want to be with. This shows us that his love for Daisy overpowers everything. Although at times, he may do things to the extreme and may choose to do things on impulse, overall he has good intentions and he cares about Daisy more than anything else. This, to me, proves that he has a genuinely good heart and is a good man.
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