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a 6 page research paper/essay that posits that Lucky Luciano may have provided Fitzgerald with inspiration for his characterization of Jay Gatsby. The character of Gatsby is also discussed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the woman he loves, socialite Daisy Buchanan. However, the saga that unfolds in this novel is the story of the American Dream gone bad, as the people and society to
which Jay Gatsby aspires have feet of clay, and are lacking a moral center. Jay Gatsby, Fitzgeralds dramatic symbol of American idealism, began life as Jimmie Gatz, a young man
who, prior to the opening of the narrative, became involved in bootleg racketeering and made a fortune selling illegal alcohol. With this money, Jimmie Gatz was able to become
Jay Gatsby, and assume as position in society where he felt that he could pursue the woman of his dreams. While this may seem improbable, there are actual real-life precedents
for this sort of transformation in American culture. The story of Lucky Luciano does not parallel Jay Gatsbys exactly, but it, nevertheless, might have served as an inspiration to Fitzgerald
in devising his characterization. Lucianos story, like Gatsbys, is very much a dark version of the American "Horatio Alger story. ("Horatio Alger" stories are where a local boy makes
good, through strenuous hard work and the advantages of the American way.) Luciano was nine when his family emigrated from Sicily to New York City (Buchanan, 1998). Like Gatz, he
went to work on the street early in life, and fell in with a teenage gang from the Lower East Side. Taking advantage of Prohibition (the law forbidding the sale
of alcoholic beverages in the US) Luciano, with the aid of his friend and colleague Meyer Lansky, supplied bootleg whiskey to Manhattan nightclubs (known as "speakeasies") (Buchanan, 1998).
This is precisely the same way in which Gatz/Gatsby made his fortune in Fitzgeralds novel. The reader is never told precisely what Gatsby did or did not do in the
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