Gatsby’s World Is Corrupt but Ultimately Glamorous’

In the novel, Gatsby is living in a dream based around the famous American dream. His world is rather glamorous however to have reached this glamour Gatsby would have had to be corrupt. Gatsby is living in a world of magic and illusion in which everything has to be to his perfection and he clearly knows what he wants, who he wants and where he wants to be. Yet because of his dreams this is only illusion and the reality is not what it seems.
Gatsby achieved his high goal of the American Dream by participating in organised crime. Gatsby obviously was corrupt to achieve his mansion and to hold all of these parties. Because of Gatsby’s corruption, he appears surrounded by a world of luxurious possessions and wealth. Any reader’s first instinct of Gatsby would be that he is an exceptionally wealthy person whom must have worked extremely hard to afford all of the lavish things: ‘...on weekends his Rolls Royce... enormous garden... servants...’ These all suggest Gatsby’s glamorous world. The fact that Gatsby is the host of these many parties can suggest at first that he is a materialistic person who wants to boast his glamour to get his dream of Daisy.
After Gatsby’s death in chapter 9, Nick receives a mysterious phone call from one of Gatsby’s puzzling friends: Mr Slagle. Gatsby and Wolfsheim had got themselves into so much trouble that he doesn’t want any connection to Gatsby after his death. Wolfsheim does not go to Gatsby’s funeral in which implies how corrupt Gatsby’s world actually was. The reader would only realise how hidden his corrupt world was after his death; ‘there was a long silence on the other end of the wire followed by an exclamation... then a quick squawk as the connection was broken.’ This implies how Gatsby’s corruption was hidden therefore nobody wants connection or anything to do with him after his death. Gatsby’s corruption is hidden through glamour, wealth and his affair with Daisy. His mansion, lawns, beach, motor cars, speed boats,