The Great Gatsby was a phenomenal book that managed to captivate audiences from The Roaring 20s to today's classrooms. From its brilliantly elaborated characters, to its astonishing array of literary elements, The Great Gatsby was nothing short from stunning with its insane denouement. Fitzgerald managed to artfully construct multiple incredible characters utilizing the bases of their names to the etches of their figure. Characters such as Nick bit his tongue and contradicted many of his own supposed morals while Gatsby was entirely alluded upon the idea of Daisy. He manipulated all of his characters in such a chaotic harmony the ending mimicked the intensity and extravagance of an award show. In addition to Fitzgerald's clearly notable novel…
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” the narrator, Nick Carraway, moves to West Egg to work as a bond trader in Manhattan. He grew up in a prominent family. He came from an old money family in Chicago. He attended Yale University and is known as a very well rounded man. This novel is based off of the 1920’s era. It was named the Roaring Twenties after the Great War when the United States underwent a change in radical and social reform. During this period, society was torn apart due to the clash between old and new money. The Great Gatsby reflects the American society during this period and undoubtedly depicts the difference between traditional and corrupted values. The Great Gatsby is a great depiction of the Roaring Twenties because of greed, parties, and fast women.…
Fitzgerald uses metaphors, similes, and motif of rumors to demonstrate that people are careless. Reading through out the book you encounter many reckless actions committed by a wide spread of characters including both daisy and Gatsby. Carelessness is a topic that keeps spreading in The Great Gatsby and this is supported by the action of many characters.…
The Great Gatsby, which was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a story that reflects the life of the 1920's in New York. The 1920's was a decade of prosperity and opportunity, but also of prohibition and organized crime. The life in the 1920's was filled with moral decay (immoral decisions) and corruptness. Throughout The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald shows how the American Dream is dead through immoral decisions and corruptness in Gatsby's and Myrtle's life.…
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main character, Jay Gatsby, is a rich man originally from North Dakota. Before fighting in World War I, he meets a young girl named Daisy, and the two fall in love. Daisy says she will wait for him, but marries Tom Buchanan and moves to Long Island, New York. This prompts Gatsby to relocate to West Egg in Long Island to be close to Daisy. The narrator, Nick Carraway, reveals that Gatsby acquired his wealth dishonestly and harbors an unhealthy obsession for Daisy. Gatsby’s upbringing as a poor Midwesterner, along with his teenage love for Daisy, motivates his future actions and shapes his character.…
Starting with the title of his novel, The Great Gatsby. There is a reason for why Fitzgerald titled his book The Great Gatsby and that is because he obviously thinks highly of Gatsby and respects him for going after his American Dream and getting Daisy with all he had. Gatsby put everything he had into trying to get Daisy. Although he obtained his fortune illegally, Fitzgerald still commends him and says, “Gatsby turned out all right at the end”. Fitzgerald says this out of respect for the man because he went out to get a fortune so he has at least a shot with Daisy because Gatsby realized how materialistic Daisy is considering she gave up love with Gatsby to marry a guy with money when he was in the war. But besides that, Fitzgerald values Gatsby’s attempt and even though he ultimately failed, Fitzgerald still believes he’s great. On the last page of the novel, Fitzgerald’s viewpoint is portrayed perfectly, he says, “…his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it”. Fitzgerald is commending Gatsby for all of the hard work and effort he put into chasing his unattainable dream. He came so close as though his dream could barely slip away from his outstretched arms, but then he got beat down by the “current” and the dream slipped away from him entirely. However, even though Gatsby failed, Fitzgerald makes it clear that he should be…
Scott Fitzgerald did not have a simple life for he had many problems. The Great Gatsby was one of his biggest hit,“The novel exposes the hollow values of the Jazz Age ,with its economic and social corruptions.” ( F.Scott Fitzgerald ). As we may see Fitzgerald shows us the dark side of the jazz age something that was new to the era and something that many people liked. Although he also shows in the book how economy and social corruptions happened. Gatsby knows people who are corrupted and people who corrupt. Furthermore, “Toward the end of his life, Fitzgerald apparently found a measure of happiness in an affair with Sheilah Graham.” ( F. Scott Fitzgerald ). This quote gives a view of how famous people influenced modernism which changed people's beliefs, before the 20th century people cared about their partner in marriage, but people started to have affairs which made people see see the American Dream as a divorce people started to divorce more after the 20th century. As Fitzgerald showed in his novel The Great Gatsby rich people had affairs with people who were in lower…
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel exploring the roaring twenties and the American Dream. The story is told from the perspective of Nick Carraway during the summer of 1922. The novel explores the wealthy and mysterious Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful and fickle Daisy Buchanan and how it affects the characters around them, including the also wealthy Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s husband. Marrying him allowed Daisy to be as rich as Gatsby, but it also revealed that she and Tom had fundamentally different values than Gatsby. Although Gatsby’s and the Buchanans’ home lives appear similar, the small variances represent the fundamental differences between the occupants. Gatsby and the Buchanans both hold grand parties, but while…
The French and Industrial Revolutions brought many positive and negative changes to the society in which they were born. Similarly, the 1920’s was a time of numerous changes for the modern world. Life became faster, moral standards relaxed, new technology was developed, and alcohol and materialism became more prevalent. F. Scott Fitzgerald addresses these changes negatively in his classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The party scenes found in chapters two and three are especially good examples of Fitzgerald’s antipathy on the modern world. Fitzgerald uses the characters and scenes found in these chapters of The Great Gatsby to portray the negative effects certain 1920’s changes had on the modern world.…
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby, it demonstrates what the “American Dream” was in the 1920’s. That was what the modern person wanted back then; the “American Dream”. Back then and today, the modern person is always changing. People will always want more and will want to improve further and further. In today’s society, the modern person wants popularity, success, and the newest technology.…
The Great Gatsby takes place in the 1920’s and follows the lives of Nick our narrator and the extravagant neighbor Gatsby. It addresses how the world was changing in the 20’s but the themes explored in this novel are still relevant today. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald utilises characters symbols and motifs to illustrate the themes of the social decline of america, the dangers of self creation, and the blindness created by love.…
The novel 《The Great Gatsby》written by Scott Fitzgerald is often classified as a masterpiece about American dream,and it is believed to be written in 1925. It is a time that the entire America was under the strong influence of the Roaring twenties,and as we know, Scott Fitzgerald is a distinguished representative of the Lost generation in America. As a result, this novel is influenced by the thoughts of the lost generation.The essential thought of the lost generation is loneliness and disillusion in spirt, is to emphasize its own set of values rather than their elders. It strongly stresses the importance of personal characteristic and freedom or personal liberation, or in other words, hedonism and self-indulgent spree. In the novel,Scott Fitzgerald…
The Author of The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald. This book was published April 10, 1925 by Scribner’s. The Great Gatsby collected assorted reviews and didn’t sell very well. The first year of publication it only sold 20,000 copies. F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940, considering himself to be a washout and his work unremembered. Nevertheless, the novel adept a revival during World War two, and became a part of American high school syllabus and many stage and film modification in the following decades.…
Over the course of a lifetime there are many lessons to be learned. There are stories to tell, friends and enemies to be made, and money to be had. But these things are all greatly affected by where and when a person is from. The setting of a person’s life will change who they will meet, what opportunities they will have, how much money they will make, what they will believe, and eventually who they become. Changing the setting of a person’s life, could entirely change who they are.…
The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a story about a man who becomes rich just to impress a past love. The novel portrays the American Dream and how it is elusive and cannot be grasped. The 1920s, the time the story takes place, was a time when lavish objects and people surrounded everyone. People that were poor wanted to become rich and people that were rich wanted to stay rich. In the books case, Gatsby, the wealthy main character, seeks to find his American Dream which ends up being Daisy, his long past love who seems to have never left his heart.…