compare and contrast gatsby's version of his past with his true childhood story. Which elements are true and which are false?

The title character of The Great Gatsby is a young man, around thirty years old, who rose from an impoverished childhood in rural North Dakota to become fabulously wealthy. ... From his early youth, Gatsby despised poverty and longed for wealth and sophistication—he dropped out of St.

In Chapter IV when Nick and Gatsby ride together into New York, Gatsby tells Nick about his past, in Gatsby's words "something about my life." He then tells Nick of his wealthy Midwestern family background and his Oxford education--a family tradition, he said.

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