When looking at the book The Great Gatsby, it talks about how Gatsby is faking his money to get Daisy to love him and notice him, he thought of her as more of a personal conquest than an actual person. For example, he had the mind set that once he had acquired Daisy that it was the final piece he would need for personal succession. It states
“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry “Lover,"gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!”
What this quote is saying is that Gatsby thinks if he does all these extravagant things he will get Daisy. Whether it was him throwing large parties with thousands of people and tons of different types of food or him showing up to tea in the most absurd shades of white paired with gold ties, he was just there to show his personal wealth; While he did not know how. According to Chapter 4, when looking at a key aspect of his personality that he's trying to build Nick emphasizes the structure of his car. “I’d seen it...It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel…” In this, Nick starts it over with “I’d seen it” because it was such an abnormal display. Base on the time, the 1920’s were a starting point for cars, with ford coming out with the Model T in the early 20th century, it only came in black so when seeing a bright spectacle of a car-such as Gatsbys- this left an impression on how Gatsby was slowly giving up to not only nick but the reader that he was a poser. Continuing on with that, his way of life was over exaggerated, aside from the showy clothes, car and accessories such as those, he just didn’t understand the concept of how to be wealthy and according to his past, when met Daisy at that banquet that’s where he really changed his thought process to if I have her everything is complete. Hence why he had such satisfaction in taking Daisy away from Tom, who was genuinely wealthy.
Now overall that statement doesn’t only go towards Daisy, it also goes towards the way he loves money;only in the sense that he saw it in an objective way but also very disposable. It states ,” And stocked with grains and liquors and with cordials..” which go on to talk about the waste and overbearing amounts of liquor, food, and decorations at his parties. Now continuing on, Gatsby is a very objective person and this is shown many times; he likes to treat everything in his life as if it’s an object in his personal storyline especially since we learned in the sixth chapter that his life’s story that he displayed to absolutely everyone is fake. The book talks about how he came from poor farmers and then he met a very wealthy person, Dan Cody, who he eventually worked for and who taught him how to formally present himself. The book even states that he had his imagination running his life, which had its own control of how his perception of the world was. For example, “So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.” With this persona along with all the money he had fueling him, he had the world at his fingertips and no one to stop him, which is where had felt like once he acquired something it was almost like he was conquering slowly everything around him.
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