Shy Dog

Before Jay Gatsby was even introduced, the environment that he created for himself was exposed. The parties, the girls, everything you would associate with a confident young man ready to live in the now. Although Nick later confesses that he could not "see nothing sinister about him" (54). Nick continued to wonder if by Gatsby "not drinking helped to set him off from his guests" (54).

While I was reading this part of the book I wondered to myself why Gatsby would waste his money on these parties every weekend if he wasn't even going to take part in them himself, or simply converse with people. As I continued reading the book I started to realize that this environment surrounding him was not representative of his personality at all, it was more of a romantic gesture. Jay is shy, so shy that he wasted his time on all these parties in hope of one single person coming, one single woman. Daisy. To his disappointment however it didn't work, he had to go one step further. He had to have Jordan Baker talk to Nick to set up a meet up between Daisy and himself. Although even in these desperate measures he was taking to see his lover he could not directly take action himself proving his truly shy nature. I think that Fitzgerald tried to somehow mask Gatsby's character at the beginning of the book to amplify the love Gatsby had for Daisy and to make his actions more romantic.