The Great Gatsby: Persona Of The Masses

Persona of the Masses “On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains” (39). Very few knew the real Jay Gatsby from the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. People thought they could fathom him, but many were fabricated lies. Copious amounts of people in our society go through life like this also. Never showing who they really are because of shame or fear of not being accepted by others. Gatsby represents in our society how people put on a persona to be likeable to the masses.
Gatsby was a household name around New York at the time of the era in the book. Everyone knew …show more content…
Gatsby had created this version of himself that he wanted everyone else to see even from a young age. He was ashamed that he came from such unsuccessful parents. He wanted Daisy to think he had always been rich, because that is what she liked. Thus, Gatsby creating his persona for her. In today’s society people do this a lot to become likeable to other people. The show “Catfish” is a great example, because the people on the show pretend to be someone that they aren’t. They let this persona go on until they are eventually caught, but not before they have either gotten money or for the person to actually like them for the person they are just pretending to be. Therefore, showing how both people in today’s society and Gatsby wanted to take on a person to impress …show more content…
People made up anything they could about Gatsby, and who they thought he was. “ ‘I don’t think it’s so much that,’’ argued Lucille skeptically; “it’s more that he was a German spy during the war.’’ One of the men nodded in confirmation” (44). This shows how people thought all different kinds of things, some people even thought he killed a man for god sake. Gatsby didn’t want anyone to know where he came from, so he let people have theses suspicions to keep up the act for Daisy. Gatsby planned everything about himself for Daisy. In today’s society, people are a lot like that. We don’t open up for the feeling of being vulnerable. I know I’m not open with very many people, two at the most. Since it’s scary being judged and just opening up to anyone they will then know everything about you. They may twist it around and go tell other people, you never know. I feel Gatsby was the same way, and all he wanted, and waited for was Daisy to love

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