Jay “the Great” Gatsby, rest in peace
West Egg, NEW YORK – James Gatz, aged 33 and better known as Jay Gatsby, came to a woeful death last night in the garden’s swimming pool of his mansion.
He was unexpectedly murdered when bathing in his swimming pool by a possible madman, named George Wilson. The man decided to commit suicide right after perpetrating this crime. Nick Carraway, a man that supported Jay in looking for his love, mentioned : “He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.”
James Gatz or Jay Gatsby, as to which this great man changed his name during his lifetime, was born in North Dakota. He became a young and very successful man living in a gothic palace in West Egg. During his youth Gatsby’s lifestyle seemed to be voluntary influenced by the millionaire, Dan Cody. A couple of years later, once again Gatsby’s life was influenced. This time by a woman he had met just before leaving for World War I in 1917. This woman was Daisy, Daisy Buchanan, after she married Tom Buchanan. This was also the time that this very respectable person changed his name to Jay Gatsby. The poor man had never been able to start a love affair with this lady. He attended college at Oxford University for a certain period of time, but he felt misplaced here and went off. Over time Jay Gatsby had achieved his desire for money and status, but the man was still seeking for his love. “He wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then. It excited him, too, that many men had already loved her - it increased her value in his eyes.” This feeling for love never left him and followed him throughout the rest of his life. When attending Gatsby’s funeral, Nick Carraway stated: “Jay Gatsby is a man with passion that lost his mind in love.” But how did Gatsby obtain this passion for life? It was the green light located at his beloved Daisy’s East End Dock visible from Gatsby’s West Egg lawn, that made Gatsby the person who he was. And it gave him hope, hope for his future, hope to reach his goal; to achieve a life that is complete, for which he needed Daisy.
