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Jay Gatsby: Pure Corruption Embodied The story The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, takes place in the 1920’s. It is the story of a man named Jay Gatsby who is on what he sees as a quest to recapture his former love Daisy Fay. Gatsby is a poor man who feels that he can win her back, if he acquires enou ....

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.... Gatsby is born James Gatz to poor parents. He always thinks that he should have been born rich and “his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents” (104). He wants to be rich or famous; he wants to be a somebody, and not the poor farm boy that he merle is. He feels that he can reinvent himself into the person he thought he should be. He renames himself Jay Gatsby and leaves home. He feels that if other people think that he is the person he wants to be, then he will really become t ....