Jay Gatsby is a very self sufficient man who made his own money instead of inheriting it. It may of be a awful illegal way of getting it but he still did it on his own.
“ I wish I’d done everything on earth with you”. Gatsby was a rather faithful and committed man when it came to Daisy. He did everything in his power to be able to come back to her and give her whatever she desired. Only to come back five years later and learn that she had been married