Course: 420 Critical Reading of Literature in English
Words: 1450
Faculty responsible: Ms. Anna Born
Institution: Glion Institute of Higher Education
Date: May 14th 2013
Project Title: Critical Analysis of Great Gatsby novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Introduction The Great Gatsby is may be the F. Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest novel. This novel offers damning and insightful views of the American nouveau riche in the 1920s. It is an American classic and a wonderfully evocative novel (Bloom, 2010). The writer appears to have a marvelous understanding of lives that are portrayed by greed and incredibly gloomy and frustration. The Great Gatsby is on one occasion a romantic and repeated novel about wealth and behaviors of New Yorkers elite during the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald’s effort is splendid as he makes vivid pictures and portraits of horrid shallow characters that throw themselves into some complex circumstances. The use of symbols and articulate language makes the novel to be best appreciated by mature readers; and this enables them to analyze literature and think critically (Bloom, 2010).
The plot Fitzgerald’s novel is a feeling story of love and passion, of Gatsby’s idealistic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The initial meeting of the two lovers takes place two years before the novel is written. Daisy was then a fabulous youthful Louisville beauty while Gatsby was a penniless officer. The two fell in deep love, but when Gatsby has to leave to serve overseas; his lover Daisy marries the mistreatment, ruthless but tremendously rich Tom Buchanan. When the war is over, Gatsby dedicates himself to find wealth by any possible means that may come his way. It is not only wealth that Gatsby dedicates himself in finding, but he uses the same energy in pursuit of his long lost lover Daisy. In one of the novel’s famous descriptions; Gatsby say “Her voice is full of money” (Fitzgerald & Stuart, 2005). Well, Gatsby prospers in his quest for