Why I changed my name

            Jay Gatsby is the name I am known by for some years now. However I haven’t always gone by Jay Gatsby. The given name from my father was James Gatz. I wanted to re-invent myself. Have a more superficial and successful name for myself and leave the person of James Gatz behind. Throughout my childhood I came from such a low income family and I would just imagine all the things I wanted to and wanted to become, but the name James Gatz left me behind. I wanted to do the things I saw successful men doing. It was what I dreamed of. Reinventing myself is what I always strived for and changing my name was the start of a new man and new life. Jay Gatsby made me seem richer and more official. If I wanted Daisy to love me I had to be the perfect person she envisioned. I had to be rich and powerful. Even though changing my name seems like such a small part, 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 woman a girl like Daisy could actually fall in love with. Not the poor James Gatz. When I was James I could never be the man I wanted to be when I wrote those things in my journal. I practiced those things so I could be Jay Gatsby. As a bootlegger, I also needed a new identity. People knew the old James Gatz and I needed someone new that no one has ever heard of and Jay Gatsby was the perfect name for that.