love of his former girlfriend Daisy‚ now married to a boorish "old-money" millionaire‚ Tom Buchanan. Gatsby ’s obsession with Daisy and his pursuit of this unworthy dream results in disillusionment and‚ ultimately‚ tragedy. Sidelines observer Nick Carraway‚ recounts the whole story. 1.2 The spokesman of the “Jazz Age” F. Scott Fitzgerald is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He was both a representative of his era and a severe critic of society. In his
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Like two sides of a flip coin‚ both Gatsby and Carraway embody the two very different sides of a man like Fitzgerald. Unlike Gatsby however‚ Carraway is more of a man who Fitzgerald wishes to be‚ but not entirely who he is. Parallel to the life of Fitzgerald‚ Carraway is a Minnesota-bred son of a well-to-do family‚ and an Ivy-League graduated Midwesterner who moves east after World War One looking for new
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In the beginning of the novel‚ “The Great Gatsby”‚ Nick Carraway‚ the narrator of the story‚ reminiscences of the summer he met Gatsby. He had just returned to America from WWI‚ where he had glimpsed everything from freedom to death. His horizons had been broadened significantly‚ so when he returned after the war‚ he felt stifled in the Midwest; thus his longing for the decadent and fantastic lifestyle of New York‚ but the problem with the fantastic is that it rarely has anything to offer beneath
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of narrator First person narrator (Nick Carraway) Everything narrated by Nick is coloured by his character. His narration is not a neutral affair. The narrator is a participant in the story who is‚ however‚ more of a spectator than a protagonist. This creates a complex viewpoint: ‘The success of the novel depends heavily upon F. Scott Fitzgerald’s control of how the figure of Jay Gatsby is presented to us. He has to be filtered through Nick Carraway’s narration at a suitable pace
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In many ways‚ the character of Nick Carraway is a representation of Fitzgerald as a young man‚ prior to his desire for wealth and a luxurious life. Like Carraway‚ Fitzgerald saw himself as an honest man who was able to recognize the dishonest and immoral ways of the upper class. Due to this‚ both Carraway and Fitzgerald feel as if they are outsiders‚ when in the presence of wealthy‚ scrutinizing people (“The Great Gatsby”)
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of “The Great Gatsby” reveals just how fully responsible Nick is for his creation of Gatsby‚ the romantic hero. He claims that Nick fleshes Gatsby onto a skeleton of public gestures as this is someone whose essential romantic hopefulness is expressed in his behavior. Fitzgerald’s audiences’ relation to Gatsby is mediated by Nick‚ so the perspective on Daisy is divided‚ with Gatsby performing as a narrator of her own magnificence‚ while Nick provides a less glorified account. Lynn says that although
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Gatsby‚ and different colors symbolize different meanings and motifs. In the book‚ the color gold represents money and even more‚ “old money.” In the book‚ Nick Carraway talks about how even the turkeys at Gatsby’s parties were‚ “bewitched to a dark gold.” Also‚ Jordan Baker‚ who is the “golden girl of golf”‚ is connected with color‚ as evident when Nick says‚ “With Jordan’s slender golden arm resting in mine‚” and‚ “I put my arm around Jordan’s golden shoulder.” Jordan is also associated with the color
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anything; when in reality‚ life is filled with impossible boundaries. In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald gives us a glimpse into the life of the upper class during the roaring twenties through the eyes of a moralistic young man named Nick Carraway. It is through the narrator’s dealings with the upper class that the reader is shown how modern values have transformed the American Dream’s pure ideals into a scheme for materialistic power‚ and how the world of the upper class lacks any sense
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Once they reunite‚ he seems unsatisfied with Daisy because of this huge dream and t seemed like Daisy could not fulfill it. Nick Carraway‚ Daisy’s cousin and also the narrator‚ was in a way‚ was Gatsby’s guardian. Fitzgerald uses‚ simile‚ diction‚ imagery and paradox to express the guardian-like behavior Nick shows towards Gatsby. After the death of the Great Gatsby‚ Nick mentions that “He had come a long way to this blue lawn‚ and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail
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In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the protagonist Nick Carraway meets his very wealthy neighbor Jay Gatsby and develops a strong friendship with him. Gatsby falls in love with Daisy Buchanan but struggles to actually get her to be with him. Gatsby is willing to do anything for Daisy‚ including buying her expensive gifts and throwing wild parties. The characters show how it is like to live in West and East Egg in the 1920’s‚ the time period before the Great Depression. In the movie that
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