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- In "The Great Gatsby", Jay Gatsby is not traditionally an "Oxford man". He did attend Oxford, but only for a brief five months as an opportunity given to some officers after the Armistice. Despite this, he uses his short attendance to bolster his reputation and increase his chances of winning Daisy.
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Nick runs into Jordan Baker, whose friend, Lucille, speculates that Gatsby was a German spy during the war. Nick also hears that Gatsby is a graduate of Oxford and that he once killed a man in cold blood.
Nick demands more information about Gatsby from Jordan, who said that Gatsby calls himself an Oxford man (meaning, he went to the University of Oxford). Jordan says that she doesn't believe this, and Nick lumps the info in with all the other rumors he's heard (that Gatsby had killed a man, that he was Kaiser Wilhelm's nephew, that he was a ...
While Gatsby remains a magnanimously unknowable figure, that he’s an “Oxford man” is as deliriously circulated as the claim that he once killed somebody. The American Bright Young Things fill their vacuous existence with speculation.
The reason why Tom does not believe that Gatsby is an “Oxford man” is that he “wears a pink suit” (116) and Myrtle feels that Wilson deceived her because he married her in a suit that was not his own (37).
Nick makes these observations about Gatsby in Chapter 3, just after he’s exchanged his first words with the man. “Roughneck,” a word used to describe workers on an oil rig, or any person who does manual labor, hints at the later revelation of Gatsby’s working class beginnings.
"Well,—he told me once he was an Oxford man." A dim background started to take shape behind him but at her next remark it faded away. "However, I don't believe it."
