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This is exciting. When my teacher first brought it up as a warmup question, I thought he was joking around. My teacher later then explained how his race isn't mentioned and gave examples. I also told my classmates that it could be possible that Gatsby was "white passing" IF he was black. I've never thought of this which is why I think it's pretty cool. I like to find theories or hidden Easter eggs in stories and histories.

White passing is basically when a mixed race black person can pass as a white person like my example in the poll.

Here are some examples to this possibility:
1. Gatsby doesn't show his face to his party guests
2. Tom (who's a racist) had a negative reaction to their first meeting.
3. Gatsby didn't inherit his money, he had to work hard for it.
4. His parents lived on a farm and were low class (they could've possibly been a mixed couple?)
5. Gatsby changed his name and lied about his past because he was embarrassed of it.

If he was white passing then all of this would've been possible, back in the 1920's white passing people could lie about their black heritage and some would even consider it embarrassing despite having a small or less percentage of black dna.