In chapter 6 of The Great Gatsby, a newspaper reporter shows up at Gatsby's door to interview him about his personal life. Jay Gatsby's original name was James Gatz and he was born on a farm in North Dakota but attended college in St. Olaf, Minnesota. He dropped out of college and later met wealthy Dan Cody who hired him as a personal assistant. When Dan Cody died, he left Gatsby $25,000, but his mistress prevented Gatsby from claiming it. Subsequently, Gatsby was determined to become rich and successful. Later, Nick visits Gatsby and is shocked to find Tom Buchanan there, and the following Saturday Tom and Daisy attend one of Gatsby's parties. After the party Gatsby is worried that Daisy didn't like him and Nick tells him to give up on Daisy, however, Gatsby refuses and instead tells Nick about he and Daisy's past. The quote that best describes Jay Gatsby is, “He talked a lot” about the past, and I understood that he wanted to recover something, perhaps some idea of ​​himself, that had gone into loving Daisy” (110). The good qualities of Jay Gatsby are that he is a loyal person and has a good heart. Gatsby's bad qualities are that he is amoral, dishonest, and throws his money away. Fitzgerald developed this character to show how people use their wealth to gain love only to find out that the love isn't real. Furthermore, over the course of the novel he is developed to be an example of how living extravagantly can be an empty life. A significant quote in the chapter is: “The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, was born from his Platonic conception of himself” (98). This quote is significant to the story because it reveals the truth about Gatsby which changes the his identity Furthermore, it focuses on the fact that Gatsby would not let any obstacle stop him from... middle of paper......, to Nick: “It was a photograph of the house cracked at the corners and dirty with many hands. ” (172), and again from Nick, “Last night…I went to look once again at that huge, inconsistent failure of a house” (179). of Gatsby's life and shows how his pursuit of Daisy was a failure. East and West were mentioned by Nick, "Even when the East excited me most, even when I was most keenly aware of its superiority. compared to the bored, sprawling, bloated cities across Ohio..." (176). It was mentioned again by Nick soon after: "After Gatsby's death, the East was haunted to me in that way, distorted beyond the correcting power of my eyes" (176). The symbol is important to the story because it represented the different social classes and how they created a barrier between the people of the East and the West.