Gatsby: the truth comes out

I think I miss when Gatsby used to be mysterious.

First of all, the money. The money was not passed down from his family. Gatsby actually worked very hard as a teenager, doing many odd jobs for food and shelter. It wasn't until he met Dan Cody that he was even close to money.

Gatsby works his way up and inherits money from Cody--not his family.

What I don't understand is why Gatsby doesn't tell people that. It's far more respectable and ambitious than simply being handed down money from his parents. Sure, that version is much simpler, but everybody and their brother suspects that he is lying. Would they still suspect he was lying if he had told the truth all along? I don't know. It is human nature to question everything.

So Daisy and Tom finally make an appearance at Gatsby's party. Gatsby and Daisy share a nice dance and seem to have a lot of chemistry. Which is why I don't understand how Gatsby could think their encounter went to horribly. Nick suggests that it is because "he wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you."

Now that would make sense if Gatsby was the spoiled man that got everything handed to him from his parents, but he is not. He is a man that knows that you have to work your way up the ladder. He wants the past between himself and Daisy to be enough. Maybe his lavish lifestyle is spoiling him.