t big so Daisy would marry him. He met a man named Meyer Wolfsheim, a notorious gangster, gambler and bootlegger. Wolfsheim is most recognized for his role as being the man that fixed the 1919 World Series. However, Wolfsheim took a liking to Gatsby and introduced him into a business in which Gatsby made a fortune. Wolfsheim is credited with "making" Gatsby, which explains Gatsby’s devout loyalty to Wolfsheim. Wolfsheim is deviously smart, which, according to Gatsby is the reason he has yet to be caught. Wolfsheim also showed Gatsby a little trick to help "grease the wheels of the business machine" by paying off the local police. Whenever Gatsby was confronted by a friend about his business he would say things he's done but never what he was doing: "I've been in several things...I was in the drug business ...oil business." Also, every so often the servant may poke his head in and say something along the lines of "Philadelphia is on the phone sir" and Gatsby would drop everything. The odd thing about the calls besides how he dropped everything is how all calls are referred to by city which means there is only one very important person in each city and that all the calls are from major cities on the East coast. From Gatsby's dealings with Wolfsheim and his business associates in other cities we can infer that Gatsby is in fact a man with real fortune obtained via illegal methods, most likely bootlegging.Although Gatsby is not a particularly manipulative person, he did use Jordan to manipulate Nick into getting Daisy over to his house so she could see his tremendous wealth. Nick, who became Gatsby’s only/best friend possibly, “I found myself on Gatsby’s side alone,” was used by Gatsby something, only a sick, manipulative person would do. Gatsby lied to Nick about virtually everything and never alluded to the truth of his humble upbringing and illegal business. Gatsby never shared the total truth w...
