The Great Gatsby: The Mysterious Gatsby

So F. Schott Fitzgerald is slowly, very slowly, revealing the character of Gatsby as the reader continues through The Great Gatsby.  It seems that he is also trying to make him seem as mysterious as possible with remarks like "... signed Jay Gatsby, in a majestic hand" (Fitzgerald, 41).  By the fact that Fitzgerald uses "majestic" to describe Gatsby's mere signature shows the mystery of the man who lives in the extravagant ouse next door to Nick Carraway.  Also, the constant gossip about Gatsby, most of which is very far fetched like that "...he's a cousin or nephew of Kaiser Wilhem's..." and Nick Carraway's extremely detailed three or four pages going on and on about his observations of Gatsby's wealth and night life (Fitzgerald, 32).  I may be wrong, but I think all of this plays into Fitzgerald's neat way of foreshadowing the large role Gatsby plays in the plot of the story.  I have noticed that Fitzgerald has an interesting style of foreshadowing most events before they occur or allowing the reader to speculate before revealing all the answers.  This really hypes the excitement of the book which was actually very low in the beginning of the book (I'm going to be honest, I was bored for a while).  All I was thinking before Nick Carraway finally was invited to one of Gatsby's parties was "Why is everyone so fascinated with this person?" But then I realized that they simply were just as curious as I was.