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In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 4 includes the introduction MeyerWolfsheim when the character meet’s the namesake Gatsby as well as Nick for lunch. Wolfsheimis described as a 50-year old, small, flat-nosed Jew who comes across as a mysterious, andpossibly dangerous person. For example Wolfsheim tells of a friend who was eating while theevent took place and got shot in the stomach three times outside the restaurant. This suggests thatMr. Wolfsheim and his friends are criminals or have connections with those types.Rapidly after this story happens, Nick is expected by Wolfsheim to search for a "businessassociation," just to be revised by Gatsby that Nick was only a companion, and that Gatsby wasgoing to acquaint this individual with Wolfsheim at a later date. This backings Mr. Wolfsheim isa criminal, yet it uncovers that Gatsby works with Wolfsheim; in this manner, Gatsby is likely acriminal also. Gatsby later needs to make a phone call, and Wolfsheim makes another falsesupposition that Nick is taking a gander at his sleeve fasteners; Mr. Wolfsheim clarifies that hissleeve buttons are made of human molars. After Mr. Wolfsheim leaves, Gatsby discloses to Nickthat Mr. Wolfsheim is a speculator, and that he effectively fixed the World Series of 1919 withoutgetting got; this affirms Wolfsheim is a criminal.In Chapter 3 of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster examines strict andallegorical vampirism in writing. In numerous works of fiction, vampires are tricky, unsafe,baffling, appealing, and unmarried, and paying little heed to whether they are exacting vampires,they turn out to be more young and enthusiastic as they degenerate their casualties. Additionally,vampirism frequently allegorically speaks to self-centeredness and misuse.
The character of Meyer Wolfsheim can allegorically be portrayed as a vampire. Physically,

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