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In order to win over Daisy and keep her loyalty, Gatsby takes the blame, finally! "Yes," he said after a moment, "but of course I'll say I was. You see, when we left New York she was very nervous and she thought it would steady her to drive – and this woman rushed out at us just as we were passing a car coming the other way. It all happened in a minute, but it seemed to me that she wanted to speak to us, thought we were somebody she knew. Well, first Daisy turned away from the woman toward the other car, and then she lost her nerve and turned back. The second my hand reached the wheel I felt the shock – it must have killed her instantly."(Fitzgerald) Unfortunately this means that Daisy and many other women will not have to take responsibility for their actions.

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Gatsby attempts at rewriting his history. "I don't think she ever loved him." Gatsby turned around from a window and looked at me enchantingly. "You must remember, old sport, she was very excited this afternoon. He told her those things in a way that frightened her – that made it look as if I was some kind of cheap sharper. And the result was she hardly knew what she was saying."(Fitzgerald) This quote shows a paradoxical thinking forced onto the reader by Gatsby, where "no" means "yes".

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Gatsby's idea of the American dream is terminated. "Meyer Wolfsheim? No, he's a gambler." Gatsby hesitated, then added coolly: "He's the man who fixed the World's Series back in 1919."

"Fixed the World's Series?" I repeated. […] "Why isn't he in jail?"

"They can't get him, old sport. He's a smart ma."(Fitzgerald).Unfortunately for Gatsby, the pure-hearted dreamers do not succeed, and it is only men like Wolfshiem, corrupt criminals, that have a say in their future.

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James Gatz – Dan Cody aids Jay in finding his identity, as the reader learns a little more about the real Gatsby. "That was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career – when he saw Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior" (Fitzgerald). This quote marks the initiation of Gatsby's will to succeed.

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"I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth"(Fitzgerald).

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"James Gatz- This quote, even though utilized twice now, has proven to be a hint into the past of Gatsby, and allows the reader to understand the behaviors and characteristics of Jay Gatz. "that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career-when he saw Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior" (Fitzgerald 104). It is understandable to be dissatisfied with materialistic things such as money or clothing, however Fitzgerald takes us to another level of dissatisfaction through Jay Gatz. Gatsby is unsatisfied with his OWN NAME! This is absolutely crazy, yet the reader is still able to understand that Gatz attempts to create a new identity for himself, even though we never truly meet the real Gatsby.

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"I thought you inherited your money."

"I did, old sport," he said automatically, "but I lost most of it in the big panic – the panic of the war."

I think he hardly knew what he was saying, for when I asked him what business he was in he answered, "That's my affair," before he realized that it wasn't the appropriate reply.

"Oh, I've been in several things," he corrected himself. "I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil business. But I'm not in either one now"(Fitzgerald 95). This proves how Nick trusts Gatsby the most because out of all the liers and fakers, Gatsby is the worst at lying causing him to be the most trust worthy and honorable.

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"See!" he cried triumphantly. "It's a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella's a regular Belasco. It's a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too - didn't cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect"(Fitzgerald 50)?  Gatsby is able to purchase items that other rich people cannot, however Gatsby cannot buy their education or experience.