Oral Commentary on the “The Great Gatsby” Chapter 9‚ pg 189 “On the last night‚ with my trunk packed and my car sold to the grocer‚ I went over and looked at that huge incoherent failure of a house once more. On the white steps an obscene word‚ scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick‚ stood out clearly in the moonlight‚ and I erased it‚ drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone. Then I wandered down to the beach and sprawled out on the sand. Most of the big shore places were closed now and there
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In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ the author‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ uses his book to portray and critique many male-female relationships. Some of these relationships are marriages‚ while others are not. There is the relationship between Daisy and Tom Buchanan‚ Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker‚ Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson‚ Myrtle and George Wilson‚ and Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Some of these relationships had the ability to affect many other people‚ even if the two in the relationship did not mean
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When you think of money do you think it’s the downfall of your life? What about love? In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald money and love all lead to the downfall of Jay Gatsby‚ born James Gatz. It’s all an illusion in which the characters believe is reality. The only one who seems to see through it is the narrator Nick. However‚ Jay Gatsby is the worst of them all. Born poor with strive and mindset to achieve in power‚ money and social status. He puts on a false front due to his
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greatness. Jay Gatsby from “The Great Gatsby” is a great man in that his desires and passion are unparallel to other rich men similar to him‚ but his greatness is also questionable because of the crimes that he has aligned himself with. According to the book‚ Gatsby gained most of his wealth from participating in illegal activities. These activities soared Gatsby amongst some of the most powerful men in New York. The book is written in the viewpoint of Nick Carraway‚ who admires Gatsby. As a result
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The great Gatsby Nick Carraway starts off the book by telling the advice of his father. “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one‚’ he told me‚ ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantage that you’ve had’”. (Fitzgerald‚ pg. 7). In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ Fitzgerald creates an artificial world where all the characters sole purpose
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• “I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities‚ and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint‚ promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew.” (4) The name Midas is a classical allusion that refers to King Midas‚ the man who was given the ability to turn anything he touched to gold. Morgan is a historical allusion to J. Pierpont Morgan‚ a successful‚ wealthy banker and financer‚ who dominated corporate
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Quote(with Page reference) Commentary or color analysis Chpt 1 Pg 22 “Inside the crimson room bloomed with light….the lamp-light‚bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair‚ glinted along….”(22) As Nick enters the room to his cousin living room he is shown a sense of a dark red almost meaning of a content of what is in the room almost like he is used to the high class living of small parties. He mentions the yellow of miss baker hair as if he can see that she is
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goal is called The American Dream. Horatio Alger created the first pattern of having a character go through tough situations. This character was named Rick. He was modest and dependable. Fitzgerald changes the original characteristics of Horatio Alger’s archetype by having Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby contain different traits in order to have the American Dream viewed differently. Horatio Alger uses his character Rick from Ragged Rick to provide an example of the American Dream. Rick was put in multiple
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To‚ Fellow classmate Published in 1925‚ The Great Gatsby became an immediate classic and brought its young author to fame he had never seen before. The novel captured the spirit of the "Jazz Age‚" a post-World War I era in upper class America that Fitzgerald himself gave this name to. It is the view that Fitzgerald was writing about the traditional American belief‚ and the usefulness of accepted myths. The Great Gatsby is about many things‚ but it’s unavoidable critique of the "American
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The Great Gatsby Essay: Analyze Fitzgerald’s symbolic use of colour Colour‚ a means of differentiation‚ understanding‚ and a sense of perception. There are about 16.8 million colours known in the English language and when you see each everyone it usually always brings a thought to mind. Colours are very useful in everyday life it makes everything that much more real but specifically colour can be used as a way of showing the real story. In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald uses colour symbolically
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