1) What is the Purpose of Meyer Wolfsheim as a Character?
Meyer Wolfsheim serves to show Gatsby in a more positive light. Throughout the book Gatsby is portrayed as this mysterious character with little detail to be made of him - this complemented by suspicions of him murdering a man added to the ambiguity of Gatsby. Therefore, Wolfsheim serves the purpose to add suspicion to Gatsby's character.
2) What Does the Backstory about Jay and Daisy's Past do to our Impressions of Gatsby?
The Backstory allows us to sympathize with Gatsby. The actual love Gatsby had and the hardship he went through in the past added to the effect of Gatsby finally remeeting Daisy after so many years. This Backstory also asserts Gatsby as an antihero as proven through the fact that we may take pity on him.
3) What does the Story of the Rest of Gatsby Past do to our impressions of him?
The rest of Gatsby's backstory allows us to sympathize with him further and shows him in a more positive, innoccent light. Gatsby worked as a janitor to pay off his tuition and worked for his money to get where he was. The fact that his reasoning behind doing so was for Daisy, sheds some innocence upon Gatsby as well as our sympathy, thus conveying him as an antivillian once more.
Meyer Wolfsheim serves to show Gatsby in a more positive light. Throughout the book Gatsby is portrayed as this mysterious character with little detail to be made of him - this complemented by suspicions of him murdering a man added to the ambiguity of Gatsby. Therefore, Wolfsheim serves the purpose to add suspicion to Gatsby's character.
2) What Does the Backstory about Jay and Daisy's Past do to our Impressions of Gatsby?
The Backstory allows us to sympathize with Gatsby. The actual love Gatsby had and the hardship he went through in the past added to the effect of Gatsby finally remeeting Daisy after so many years. This Backstory also asserts Gatsby as an antihero as proven through the fact that we may take pity on him.
3) What does the Story of the Rest of Gatsby Past do to our impressions of him?
The rest of Gatsby's backstory allows us to sympathize with him further and shows him in a more positive, innoccent light. Gatsby worked as a janitor to pay off his tuition and worked for his money to get where he was. The fact that his reasoning behind doing so was for Daisy, sheds some innocence upon Gatsby as well as our sympathy, thus conveying him as an antivillian once more.
Knowing Gatsby's background and the harships he has endured has shed some positive light onto Gatsby for me. As a result, my impression of Gatsby has bettered in how I may now see him as a hardworking, innocent, hopeless romantic, lost in his love for Daisy.
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