The Great Gatsby character analysis

The Great Gatsby Character Analysis
Jay Gatsby
The title character of The Great Gatsby is a young man, around thirty years old, who rose from an impoverished childhood in rural North Dakota to become fabulously wealthy. However, he achieved this lofty goal by participating in organized crime, including distributing illegal alcohol and trading in stolen securities. From his early youth, Gatsby despised poverty and longed for wealth and sophistication--he dropped out of St. Olaf's College after only two weeks because he could not bear the janitorial job with which he was paying his tuition…