The Great Gatsby His Parents Were Shiftless And Unsuccessfull Farm Man

Great Gastby is a novel of love,mistery, with a life of the 1920’s best knowing has the Jazz age in with actually inclues the American dream. In the novel The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald the author presents the story of Great Gastby a dreamer man. A young man, who rose from an impoverished childhood after all he to become wealthy. However, he achieved his dreams among organized crime, illegal business, through all this Gatsby despised poverty and longed for wealth and sophistication.
As the story unfolds, he starts getting into the business and richness to recover his past however , his life becomes miserable with the absence of his true love called Daisy. When a man is not happy with what he has, he will be able to change
In the book Fitzgerald shows Gatsby’s desire to overcome the undesired past is by changing his name from James Gastby to Jay Gatsby. By changing his name to Great Gatsby it makes him think that it could hide part of his identity as what he was when he lived with his parents as a farmer. Fitzgerald shows this in the text when he states “His parents were shiftless and unsuccessfull farm people” (Fitzgerald 104). What happens when you came from a "unsuccessful family" and after all you became a wealthy man who seems like he born in a gold crib? For most of people, achieving a goal comes with a letdown with makes them stronger to be where he/she wants. Having something in the present that show where he or she really comes from, may not be as good for people to
Gatsby moving from the farm where he lived with his parents helped him feel better of being in area where newly rich settled show off their newly acquired wealth. Fitzgerald shows this in the text when he states, ““He come out to see me two years ago and bought me the house I live in now. Of course we was broke up when he run off from home, but I see now there was a reason for it. He knew he had a big future in front of him. And ever since he made a success he was very generous with me.” (Gastby’s father 132). Besides Gatsby never saw to their parents as the parents that he wanted to have, he helped them to thank for what they had done for him when he was a kid. Apparently her parents never had ill feeling for they son, they were always happy for Gatsby's success though they weren't in