Adversity In The Great Gatsby

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays failure by using Gatsby to depict the personal struggles and unobtainable goals of people as a result of misfortune; this reflects Fitzgerald’s personal perspective that life is cruel and does not always go as planned.

The Human Condition is a big part of our understanding of literature, it can mean death, acceptance, judgment, and several other diverse things. It is about the positive or negative aspects of humans that everyone all universally deals with at least one time in one’s life. In the novel “The Great Gatsby”, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the short stories Raymond Carver’s “Everything Stuck to Him”, and Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”, all have the most prominent human condition: love. Love is portrayed as society’s primary concern in literature, and is represented as a main concern in today’s society .

Some goals are unattainable, no matter what someone does to achieve them. Goals can tie people down and completely take over their lives. When goals are set too high people are ultimately setting themselves up for failure. Which often occurs from a young age, most people dream of being rich, famous, and with the person that they have always dreamed about. In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby is held back in many ways from reaching his dream of being an upper class man, who is married to Daisy. Gatsby is held back from reaching his goals because of his too high of expectations for himself and Daisy, along with a corrupt and tough society that he lives in. The too high of expectations and tough society ultimately leads

Elie Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor who wrote a firsthand account of his experiences – Night. He was from Sighet. Although, given the opportunity to flee to Palestine, most of the Jews who were in Sighet did not believe that the Nazis would be able to get to them before World War II would come to an end (Wiesel 8). Wiesel and his family – his mother, his father and three sisters – were evacuated from their home in 1944 – near the end of World War II. Night by Elie Wiesel demonstrates that tragedy does not disappear from a person’s memory; instead, it shapes that person to be more empathetic, aware of the importance of hope and the need for a purpose in life.

The imperfect characters that exist within The Great Gatsby highlight Fitzgerald’s already fantastic writing the most since it displays his characters from a jaded perspective. This is exemplified in the development of Tom Buchanan and Daisy’s relationship is toxic in the sense that both parties seem to be missing fundamental emotional components. One of these missing components can be broken down into the observation that Daisy must only love money and herself which is why she is an egoist. On the other hand, Tom can also be considered an egoist due to his arrogant attitude in assuming everything belongs to him. In fact, Tom doesn’t care about Daisy at all, he only cares about possessing his trophy wife, which is an extremely sinister trait in any relationship. Hence, the most unhealthy relationship within the book is Tom and Daisy’s because they possess several malicious character traits that debilitate them as couple which are: Tom’s belief that everything belongs to him, Daisy’s inherently materialistic nature, and both of their total unconcern toward each other’s extramarital antics.

Many people break down when handling adversity, but Nick in fact wielded a different approach to adversity. “ My encouragement to you is that what lies ahead may be far better than you have ever thought possible. But it's up to you to get over it, get up, and show up” (21). He takes adversity head on with a positive attitude. This is how the author answers the question over and over throughout the novel, he always stresses the importance of the role of attitude.“... By changing our attitudes we can change our lives” ( 91). The theme of adversity resurfaced again and again. Nick was telling about why he’d been so successful, and why other famous people had become successful despite their treacherous moments in life. “Pick any true life hero,

“Screaming, crying, perfect storm” as Taylor Swift once wrote, perfectly describes the state that my family has been for the past few years. As my mother was achieving her dream by moving to America, my dad was falling deeper and deeper into his mental complication and depression due to the sudden change of foreign culture exposure. Eventually, my parents decided to get the divorce my sister and I expected for quite some time. Considering our economic status, we could not afford the bill for two separate apartments; so heavy and unpleasant tensions between each other developed as my parents continued to live under the same roof. As time has passed, I have become more aware of the sacrifices my parents have made in order to raise my sister and

The meaning of literature novels are connected to the context of the time and can enlighten readers of it. This is true of the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in 1926 depicted a materialistic and consumerist society where social and moral values were slowly decaying. It shown through the eyes of the narrator, Nick Carraway who illustrates the world and the people around him and their values; starting with Daisy and Tom Buchanan and the infamous Jay Gatsby. The text closely depicts the history of the 1920s and sends a message to the readers that thw 1920s were a time of declined moral values, such as the low value of life, the harsh treatment of women, and the prevalent infidelity inside marriages.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald has become one of the most well-known American novels. The book contains a disastrous love story and social commentary on American life while exhibiting features of the country at one of its most successful times. Many other qualities of the book make it important that everyone has read it, such as the idea of achieving the American Dream, the symbols and motifs, and its themes. All of these contribute to why this work is precious to American literature as a whole. Therefore, these reasons and many more, explain why many consider The Great Gatsby part of the American literary canon and necessary for a course such as AP 11 American Literature.

From a young age, everyone is told to follow the example set by adults around them. Children are constantly berated for their behavior and told to act more mature. But issues in this world are not caused by children. The blame lies in the hands of the very adults that adolescents are taught to model after. Adults are able to get away with unacceptable behavior, claiming that being older means that they must know better. In the heart of the 1920s, an era of wild parties and reckless abandon, F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the complex society of Long Island Sound’s elite, the fictional East Egg and its less fashionable counterpart, West Egg, in his novel The Great Gatsby. Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s already strained marriage is further shaken up by the reappearance of a flame from Daisy’s past, Jay Gatsby, who manages to make himself into an incredibly wealthy man. Readers watch through the eyes of Nick Carraway, Daisy’s cousin and Gatsby’s neighbor, as irrational actions force their lives to intertwine into a complicated mess. The selfish decisions and careless actions of Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby prove that the behavior of adults is not always acceptable.

Nick from The Great Gatsby stated “‘ Whenever you feel like criticizing someone;’ he told me, ‘Just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had”’ ( Fitzgerald 5 ). F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the different strata of American Society, new money, old money, some money, and no money in the novel The Great Gatsby. During the 1920’s American cities grew, the consumer culture spread, mass entertainment surged, and society bitterly over issues like immigration, races and women roles.

In “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald Nick Carraway’s different descriptions of Mr. Gatsby and Tom Buchanan are exposed. Nick is infatuated by Gatsby, unlike his apprehension towards Tom. The narrator’s diction describes these differences very clearly. The difference between “romantic readiness” which is used to describe Gatsby and “fractiousness” which is used to describe Tom shows a clear distinction between Nick’s opinion of these two characters. The differences between Gatsby and Tom are very strong in Nick’s view of them.

In his description of Gatsby in the end of Chapter VIII, Fitzgerald uses symbolism and imagery to convey his themes of isolation and the destabilization and death of dreams within American society. Gatsby’s “old warm” dream world appears to have been “lost”, collapsing upon itself and revealing a much darker reality. Everything in the natural world, from the leaves to the sky, became “unfamiliar”, a whole “new world” that contrasts against previous conceptions. In other words, Gatsby is exposed to the harsh realities of life because he pursued a “single dream”, paralleling the ultimate demise of pursuing the American dream. Those who pursue the elusive idea of the American dream for “too long”, will pay a “high price”, just as Gatsby did. This

Scott F. Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, depicts the difficulties in achieving the American Dream, and what some of the morally questionable actions one would do to achieve it are. The novel focuses on a very rich man, named Jay Gatsby, and the strange obsession he has with Daisy Buchanan, a married woman who he had a relationship with in the past, before she got married. The book also talks about Gatsby’s perseverance to make Daisy fall in love with him, using his extreme wealth as well as power. The author uses money, extravagancy and almost fictional parties to show that the American dream is impossible to obtain. Money is the main reason that ignites the actions of the main characters in the book.

The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann, makes the audiences to notice themselves in dilemmas. The director aimed to give confusions by subtly removing the line between the good and evil. Through this the audiences will start to think about morality and corruption within themselves and within our society. These dilemmas are conveyed through the use of techniques such as shots, contrasting features and music