chapter IV
“i’ll tell you God’s truth” His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by. I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West-all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford, beacuse all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition…What part of the Middle West?…San Francisco.” (65) Oh, so this is where all of Gatsby’s money came from. This shows that sometimes the American Character doesn’t have to do much to earn his or her money. Some people are just born into lavish families. But is that really being an american character? or does the american character work hard to be sucessful. Do they have to go through painful experiences in order to feel sucess? I just find it so funny too that gatsby said he was from the middle west, and then continued to say san franciso, http://www.effingham.k12.il.us/central/4thgrade/donaldson/midwest/schimmel/mwstates.html
california is clearly not part of the middle west….lies, what else is Gatsby up to?
