Self Made Man Focal Question: Explain the concept of the self made man?

Do all people have the same opportunities to become a self made (wo)man?
1. Dene: Self Made Man

2. Provide 3 examples of individuals who are self made:

3. The conation (coming together) of new arrivals and unethical business practices provides obvious
motivation for reading The Great Gatsby according to the rise of nativism and the fall of the self made man...The association of immigrants with lawlessness was crystallized during Prohibition, which was no less than a moral crusade to preserve the American Way through social control and conformity. The Eighteenth Amendment propelled organized gangsterism to new heights an, in doing so, opened opportunities for new arrivals by creating a lucrative trade in illicit alcohol. It also activated the stereotype of the non-Anglo-Saxon immigrant as gangster, realized in sensational trials as that of Bootleg King millionaire Harry Brolaski who, in his own words, always took a gambling chance. In four months during 1920, June to September, Brolaski made a fortune which was lost before the end of the year when he was tried and convicted of masterminding a Pacic Coast bootlegging ring.
Decker, Jerey Louis. Gatsbys Pristine Dream: The Diminishment of the Self-Made Man in the Tribal Twenties. Novel: A forum on Fiction Vol. 28 No. 1 (1994): 60. print.

1. Summarize the excerpt above.

2. Connections to Mr. Wolfsheim in chapter 4?

3. Comment on the self made man.