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Gatsby as Gangster. (Jay Gatsby from F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby')
From: Studies in American Fiction
Date: 19930922
Author:Pauly, Thomas H.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby' is not an idealized romantic, as the narrator portrays him. Fitzgerald drops hints that Nick, the narrator, is too innocent to spot Gatsby's deviousness. If Gatsby's wealth is an indication of his successful criminal career he cannot be the romantic Nick assumes him to be. Fitzgerald has combined his real-life inspiration Arnold Rothstein's qualities of sophistication, cunning and mysteriousness in Gatsby. It is Gatsby's veiled criminal instincts which make him a sinister gangster.
In an article entitled "The Passing of the Gangster," ...
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