Jay Gatsby

Jay Gatsby is the mysterious millionaire protagonist of F.

Scott Fitzgerald's novel *The Great Gatsby* (1925).

His name evokes the self-invented American dreamer—someone who reinvents their identity and accumulates wealth in pursuit of an idealized vision, often love or social acceptance.

To call someone a Jay Gatsby suggests romantic obsession, elaborate self-fashioning, or the doomed pursuit of an unattainable past: He threw parties like some Jay Gatsby, hoping she'd wander in.