Action is Character(The Great Gatsby)

Fitzgerald kept numerous notebooks in which he wrote character sketches, story ideas and theories about life and writing. One entry in its entirety state: “Actions is character”. This is quite a bold statement, and its implied that Fitzgerald meant a couple things by this declaration, saying it as if action were the only or best device for revealing character. Throughout the book, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses action to describe three of his main characters: Gatsby, Nick, and Daisy.
Gatsby is quite a peculiar person, and to some is man obsessed. The book introduces Gatsby as he stands outside his beautiful mansion, appearing to be looking at the midnight sky, and “content to be alone – he stretches out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way…and I could have sworn he was trembling”(25-26). It looks as if he is reaching for something as he stares at the dock light of the Daisy. Is there a connection between the type of person he is, or has become,...