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in organized crime. There was a reference to the 1919 World Series, (That's the one where the players on the
Chicago White Sox helped out organized crime by not trying their hardest when it counted. Go Reds!) When asked about his line of work, Gatsby claims to be in the drugstore business. Drugstores were a common means of bootlegging liquor during prohibition since pharmacists could sell whiskey by prescription. Fitzgerald is never quite clear as to just what extent of illegal activity Gatsby was involved in. At some points, he may even seem like a legitimate business man.
It is clear that the driving motivation for getting all this cash is so that it will appeal to Daisy. Daisy was the rich girl that he fell in love with before he joined the service. But just what it was that made him fall so head over heels for her isn’t so clear. Why would someone with the ambition of Gatsby devote five years of his life in pursuit of a woman as superficial as Daisy? ...

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the first page Nick holds himself in higher esteem than the other characters in the novel. Even though Nick is the narrator he should not be completely trusted. On the first page he boasts about how he
doesn't judge people yet throughout the story he does just that. The only person who he envies though is Gatsby. On page 2, Nick says about Gatsby, “He has an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it
is not likely I shall ever find again.” Also, for someone with such high moral values he doesn't handle commitment very well. That's probably a main reason why he left the Mid West and it's part of why he ended up ...

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