When Tom is trying to figure who Gatsby really is, Tom reveals something about Gatsby. In chapter 7, Tom says, "'I found out what your 'drug-stores' were.' He turned to us and spoke rapidly. 'He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That's one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn't far wrong"(118). Tom reveals to everyone including Daisy, that Gatsby is a bootlegger and in the 1920s Al Capone was one of the most famous bootleggers in the 1920s. In the online article "Al Capone - Chicago Crime Boss and Bootlegger", Martin Kelly, who is an American history expert, wrote, "Capone quickly moved to control the sale of all alcohol in Chicago. He created an elaborate distribution system where alcohol was brought from Canada." This shows that Al Capone was a bootlegger because he had to get his alcohol from Canada in order to sell it in the USA. Since Al Capone and Gatsby did the same thing for business they were both
When Tom is trying to figure who Gatsby really is, Tom reveals something about Gatsby. In chapter 7, Tom says, "'I found out what your 'drug-stores' were.' He turned to us and spoke rapidly. 'He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That's one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn't far wrong"(118). Tom reveals to everyone including Daisy, that Gatsby is a bootlegger and in the 1920s Al Capone was one of the most famous bootleggers in the 1920s. In the online article "Al Capone - Chicago Crime Boss and Bootlegger", Martin Kelly, who is an American history expert, wrote, "Capone quickly moved to control the sale of all alcohol in Chicago. He created an elaborate distribution system where alcohol was brought from Canada." This shows that Al Capone was a bootlegger because he had to get his alcohol from Canada in order to sell it in the USA. Since Al Capone and Gatsby did the same thing for business they were both