Answers 1 add yours answered by aslan 6 years ago 1/16/2016 4:07 pm gatsby is a bootlegger meaning that he ran illegal booze during prohibition.

How did gatsby make his money. How did gatsby make his money? However, it can be possible that other illegal ventures helped the man become rich. However, gatsby insists that he is a businessman, and he frequently talks about the past, and the time spent in.

Within the book, the talker explains gatsby would slowly work his method through the importing ring, earning heaps of cash quickly, before beginning he seeks for flower. Many have questioned the origins of this because in the. In the conversation with tom, gatsby reveals that he earned most of his fortune by selling alcohol.

Stolen bonds conclusion bootlegging sold to other wealthy people became friends with wolf sheim worked as face of the smuggling business speakeasies sold to many owners. At one part of the book, people believe that gatsby made his money from bootlegging, that is, the sale of alcohol. This might sound odd, but from an historical point of.

Cite there were few professions in that era which earned a man the kind of money gatsby made. The book describes a time when alcohol was illegal due to prohibition, at the time this book takes. Many people are aware that gatsby was filthy rich, but it is unknown where he got his money.

How did gatsby make money? Upon his insistence, the group heads to new york where it is revealed that gatsby most probably earned his wealth through bootlegging ( illegal selling of alcohol ) and other. The book describes a time when alcohol was illegal due to prohibition, at the time this book takes.

In addition, gatsby was receiving calls from all hours of the day and we as a reading audience. The book never clearly mentioned what jay gatsby did to earn this money. We are told that gatsby came up from essentially nothing, and that the first time he met daisy buchanan, he was “a penniless young man.” his fortune, we are.