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How do you achieve wealth and popularity? Easy. Just become a bootlegger. Oh, hang on...alcohol is legal now? Hm. Perhaps obtaining an education is the next best thing, then. Start by Shmooping it up and watching this video!
Transcript
- 00:01
We speak student!
- 00:05
The Great Gatsby
- 00:07
Elusive Rhythms
- 00:09
a la Shmoop
- 00:14
What's the real story behind Jay Gatsby?
Full Transcript
- 00:17
Yeah, so he started off in the Midwest.
- 00:20
The middle west, as Nick likes to say,
- 00:23
as James or Jimmy Gatz.
- 00:25
And then he decided that he wanted to
- 00:30
become something more. And he's taken
- 00:32
onto a yacht by a guy named Dan Cody.
- 00:36
[ uh-oh ]
- 00:38
And, through that experience, and kind of continues on
- 00:41
just starts this process of making money somehow. Hmm.
- 00:47
And we don't really know --
- 00:49
I think it's okay, not a spoiler at this point,
- 00:51
to say that we find out that he's a bootlegger.
- 00:55
Which means he's making alcohol when it's illegal.
- 00:58
But, yeah, so we kind of see this --
- 01:02
We get his story that he started out
- 01:04
from basically nothing
- 01:06
and had this idea that he wanted to become rich and successful.
- 01:09
And, well, here he is.
- 01:11
He's rich and successful,
- 01:13
but still not fulfilled.
- 01:15
And we almost feel sorry for him, right?
- 01:19
Because he's gotten everything he wanted
- 01:21
and he still doesn't have what he wanted.
- 01:23
And that makes us think that
- 01:24
even if he were to get Daisy in the end, too,
- 01:27
it wouldn't be what he wanted.
- 01:28
And he'd get Daisy and achieve that dream, but
- 01:31
it wouldn't really mean anything exactly.
- 01:33
[ gasp ]
- 01:36
[ whoop ]
- 01:38
What's the real story behind Jay Gatsby?
- 01:42
[ evil laugh ]
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