The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a
tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. What does this description about Gatsby’s house reveal about his character?
He is newly wealthy individual who aspires to project a false image of himself.
In Francis Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," the narrator describes how Jay Gatsby's house creates a better version of him. He is actually a dishonest, faulty man with great ambition for power and appearances, and who trades goods which are forbidden by law.
