Why I Changed My Name...

Jay Gatsby has been the name I've been going by for the past years. I haven't always went by the name Jay Gatsby though. My given name from my father was James Gatz. I just didn't think it was becoming. Jay Gatsby made me seem richer and more official. If I wanted Daisy to love me I had to be the one she envisioned. I had to be rich and powerful. Even though changing my name seemed small, it changed my whole image. I became Jay Gatsby a top leader in the army, Jay Gatsby one of the richest men on West Egg, Jay Gatsby the women a girl like Daisy could fall in love with. When I was James Gatz, I could never be the man I practiced when I wrote those things in my journal. I practiced those things so I could then be Jay Gatsby. As a bootlegger, I also needed a new identity. People already knew the old James Gatsby and I needed someone new that no one has never heard of and Jay Gatsby was the perfect name.