Great Gatsby Ch. 4-6

Meyer Wolfsheim's purpose as a character is to help support or add detail to Gatsby's background. He also further illustrates how far Gatsby has come on the social ladder. They used to bootleg illegal alcohol and now Gatsby doesn't even really drink. Having a character such as Wolfsheim makes the audience want to distrust Gatsby, but we already do because of events earlier in the book. If Wolfsheim had been introduced early in the book, we as an audience would be more hesitant with trusting Gatsby. Jay and Daisy's background pushes the reader to, in essence, root more for Gatsby because of the love story between the two and how he had nothing when they meet and when he went off to war she left him for a man with money, and now that Gatsby has money, the audience wants Daisy to go back to Gatsby for the happily ever after they deserve. The audience wants Gatsby to succeed because he didn't have much when he was younger and he had to work to go to college and one day by chance his life was changed. It was a "Cinderella Story" and it just makes the audience puttying in the writer's hands. I like Gatsby more because before he was a mysterious character and there wasn't much substance to him and now that he had a backstory and it isn't terrible sad yet isn't terribly happy, I find myself liking him more and more.