A Review of F Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'

If the novel is looked at from a point of view of Gatsby, it is clearly shown that the character portrays experiences from Fitzgerald’s life through biographical and historical events. Many of Fitzgerald's experiences are incorporated into Jay Gatsby. Like Jay, Fitzgerald as a boy rejected the circumstances of his own birth. He sometimes fantasized that he really had been born into a family very different from his own. One of wealth and social

Thesis: Of Fitzgerald’s works, The Great Gatsby is possibly one of the most facetious and ironic titles published during the 1920’s. Initially portraying Jay Gatsby as a magnificent and lavish gentleman, Gatsby has built an empire of mystery and wealth around himself. However as Fitzgerald continues to retell Gatsby’s legacy through the eyes of Nick Carraway, he reveals to the reader the underlying truth about Gatsby.

When Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby the U.S. was in the middle of the 1920s. An age of consumerism, excess, and social revolution. Fitzgerald conveys these new ideas excellently. The 1920s was the precursor to the modern day and was foreshadowing of what was to come in the post-World War 2

     In the text, The Great Gatsby, the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald leads us to sympathize with the central character of the text, Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald evokes our sympathy using non-linear narrative and extended flashbacks as well as imagery, characterization and theme. Through these mediums, Fitzgerald is able to reveal Gatsby as a character who is in an unrelenting pursuit of an unattainable dream. While narrative and imagery reveal him to be a mysterious character, Gatsby's flaw is his ultimate dream which makes him a tragic figure and one with which we sympathize.

The Great Gatsby is generally regarded as a story of love and tragedy, but in actuality, it was a story of a sad man chasing a baseless obsession with a woman and in trying to obtain this relationship, succumbing to immoral practices and ultimately dying alone. The author of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a widely acclaimed author who had a life of tragedy and loss that greatly impacted his writing. He was able to see not only the light-hearted, celebratory, and successful side of the American Dream, but also the negative effects of overindulging with alcohol and incessant partying. He was able to indirectly write about himself and his losses in the stories he wrote. Unfortunately, he was not able to see how successful he had become.

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, has been celebrated as one of the greatest - if not the greatest - American works of fiction. Of course, one could convincingly argue that Gatsby barely qualified as fiction, as it is the culmination of a trio of Fitzgerald’s work that

The Great Gatsby has been around for ages; it is a story of a young man in the 1920’s who is thrown into a new world made up of the new and the old rich. He is confused by the way these people act and in the end cannot stay another minute in this strange, insensitive, materialistic world. The author, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses many techniques to help the reader understand how Nick Carraway (the narrator) is feeling throughout the story. In the book The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses effective language to make his writing successful. He uses the techniques of imagery and irony to display this message.

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes many universal and timeless themes to make the novel a classic. He emphasizes that most people lack insight and can not see the truth. To the majority of the society, the reality is an illusion that they create in their minds. The characters, events, setting, symbols and imagery contribute to establishing this theme.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby was a remarkable book. Fitzgerald Made the characters of the book as real and as personal as possible. Three characteristics stood out in the novel to me. Tom’s Jealousy of Gatsby relationship with his wife, Gatsby’s lies about who he is and his life, and Daisy’s ways to tempt Gatsby to fall in love with her. The novel was inspired by the way he fell in love with his wife Zelda.

F.Scott Fitzgerald tackles the subject of allusion, this involves the characters pretending to be something or someone that he or she is not. Although it may take the reader a while to understand that Gatsby has invented his entire life in order to pass as someone from a higher social class, this process becomes one of the most important aspects of the novel The Great Gatsby. There is curiosity about Gatsby, he is generous yet so mysterious, but as his false identity is exposed, he becomes a pathetic and pitiful character. Life- acceptance, identity, and the obsession over Daisy is key to this novel.

We look back in history in order to learn from our mistakes and to help society progress in the present and in the future. “The Great Gatsby” was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. Fitzgerald wrote this piece during the 1920s after WWI and it perfectly replicates the time period. The narrative captures the essence of the Jazz Age by depicting characters, showing power struggles and by defining the societal conflicts of the time. The novel tells us about different influences on the 20’s such as the Prohibition Act, the success of Wall Street, and aspects of the American Dream. “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald possesses the social constructs and ideas of the Roaring Twenties.

What is the real world and how do people react to the situations involved in life’s difficulties? The real world is a place where we all are forced to live sooner or later and people tend to react to life’s difficulties in various ways. In the quote, “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone. He told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had,” (Fitzgerald 1); demonstrates how the narrator, Nick Carraway’s father described the real world to him as a young boy. Different people react to the situations throughout their lives differently.

Victor A. Doyno claims that The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is filled with many patterns and subtle nuances. In his essay, he demonstrates this belief with many examples and excerpts from the novel, and makes many interesting points. Doyno believes The Great Gatsby to be a “consciously artistic achievement,” and attempts to prove his argument.

Fitzgerald’s character in The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, expresses many characteristics to the lifestyle that he lives; do these characteristics actually show his true story? “The lines between truth and fiction are blurred, and, essentially the reader must become a participant within the text; he or she must separate the lies from the truth in order to glean the true meaning” (Hickey 3). When Nick Carraway

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a story that has many different themes. Fitzgerald shows the themes that he uses through his character’s desires and actions. This novel has themes in it that we deal with in our everyday life. It has themes that deal with our personal lives and themes that deal with what’s right and what’s wrong. There are also themes that have to do with materialistic items that we deal desire on a daily basis. Fitzgerald focuses on the themes of corrupted love, immorality, and the American Dream in order to tell a story that is entertaining to his readers.