What I was thinkng when I met Gatsby's father

When I met Jay's father after he died, I was quite surprised for many reasons. One being that Jay had told me his father was dead. I also learned that Jay Gatsby was not his name at all, it was James Gatz. He was from a poor family and grew up in the Midwest. I could not believe it, because this did not seem like the man that I had gotten to know throughout my time living in the West Egg. He seemed so different than his father, though the looked similar. I couldn't believe a man like Gatsby could come from a poor, Midwestern family. It was not until his father showed me the book he kept as a young boy, stating ways to improve himself, did I truly see any trace of the man that I had known.