Analysis Of Gatby In The Great Gatsby

Gatsby was a household name around New York at the time of the era in the book. Everyone knew of his extravagant parties and his mansion, of sorts. “By midnight the hilarity had increased. A celebrated tenor had sung in Italian, and a notorious contralto had sung in jazz, and between the numbers people were doing ‘stunts’ all over the garden, while happy, vacuous bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky” (46). The parties threw by Gatsby were a rage, he threw all theses flashy parties just so maybe, Daisy would come and she would notice how rich he is. In society now people try to obtain all the new clothes, cars, the newest iPhone even. We’ve been taught if you don’t have all theses things then you won’t be accepted. An outcast, and you don’t want that right? So we have accomplished theses

For starters Jay Gatsby is a very rich and kind of awkward man but seems to be caring and responsible for his actions. In the beginning of the book we don’t see Gatsby at first, but we hear people giving a description of what he looks and acts like but also the way he acts according to the first group of people we meet in the book. Jordan Baker in the first chapter asks Daisy if she knows anyone from West Egg, Jordan says you must know Gatsby, Daisy says Gatsby what Gatsby as if she doesn’t know they are talking about.

It embodies the reasoning why Fitzgerald wrote the book: Gastby is glorified because he is honest and pure, but the other wealthy are “careless” and corrupt. Fitzgerald used Nick as a lens to focus on the disparity between what the ideal wealthy person is and what they are actually like. Not only does Nick provide a way for this, but Gatsby himself does. He is clearly immensely wealthy, for “Every Friday five crates of orange and lemons arrive from a fruiter in New

1. Fitzgerald achieves a melancholy mood in the beginning of the chapter by using sorrowful and negative word choices to describe events. In the first paragraph we learn about Nick's challenging night and how "I tossed half-sick between grotesque reality and savage, frightening dreams" (Fitzgerald, pg. 154). Introducing a new chapter with such saddening descriptions is done to make the readers continue reading with a more negative outlook. Even in the next few paragraphs Gatsby's actions are pitiful and naïve, and it makes the reader sad to see him so blind when they know more of what is going on than he does.

Jay Gatsby, the title character of The Great Gatsby, is really not all that the title might suggest. First of all, his real name is James Gatz. He changed it in an effort to leave behind his old life as a poor boy and create an entirely new identity. He is also a liar and a criminal, having accumulated his wealth and position by dishonest means. But he is still called ‘great,’ and in a sense he is. Gatsby is made great by his unfaltering hope, and his determination to live in a perfect world with Daisy and their perfect love. Gatsby has many visible flaws—his obvious lies, his mysterious way of avoiding straight answers. But they are shadowed over by his gentle smile and his visible hunger for an ideal future. The coarse and playful Jay

In Scott Fitzgerald’s book, The Great Gatsby, he develops the supporting characters; however, the main character, Gatsby, remains an enigma whom the narrator, Nick, reveals slowly. Gatsby starts off as a myth; he shows genuine love towards Daisy, who plays a main role in his own childhood dreams. Jay Gatsby invents himself using his imagination and his dream of who he should be. Of the many mysteries about Gatsby, one of them revolves around the debate about who Gatsby is.

He supposedly received his education at Oxford University. Every Saturday, he used to hold extravagant parties with bright lights and loud music in his grand mansion. Some sources those who have been to Gatsby’s lavish parties claim that Gatsby had “killed a man once” and might have even been a “German spy during the war”. Some said that he grew up in Germany while others told our reporters that he “was in the American army”. He is kind of a mystery to others. Gatsby is “rarely seen talking to his visitors and maintains a distance with them”, said one of his partygoers. However, he has a close friend, Nick Carraway, who refused to reveal much about Gatsby. Is there anything that Nick is trying to hide away from the rest? And Gatsby remains to be a mysterious character to most

“‘Jay… You can’t repeat the past.’ Gatsby wheeled around… ‘Can’t repeat the past?’ ‘No.’ ‘Why of course you can.’”(Luhrmann). The Great Gatsby greatly deals with people trying to relive past relationships and parts of their lives. This why a common theme for the Great Gatsby is that you can’t repeat the past. This is shown when Gatsby dies trying to repeat the past and return to a relationship and feelings that had been gone for 5 years, “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. ”(Fitzgerald 110). The movie better displays the theme that you can’t relive the past because of its style, the symbolism, and the point of view taken in the movie.

In the beginning, Gatsby is seen as just a figure, not as an actual person. When Nick goes to his party for the first time, nobody really knows who he is. Everyone knows of him, of his wealth, of his status, but don't care really about anything else about him. They are only there for the party and that’s all. One really big benefit from his status though is that during this time you have to think that prohibition was a thing and having all of the alcohol really told what kind of status he has. Everyone in town knows about it but why don’t they stop him? Because everyone loves him. They could honestly care less about all the bad things that he has done or what they speculate he has done like

Owl Eyes mentions, “It’s a bona-fide piece of material. It fooled me. This fella’s a regular Belasco. It’s a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop too—didn’t cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?”(45-46). Gatsby merely has the library full of books to impress his past lover, Daisy Buchanan, in which shows the deeper meaning in the novel by showing that people during this time were judged solely on their appearance and what they owned. Nick observes, “On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d’œuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten…”(40). Gatsby was known mainly for his extravagant parties, and how much attention he brought to himself, as well as his estate. Although you may be able to buy items and attract people you never have before, is money the real reason behind your

Fitzgerald uses Nick’s role to help the reader understand Gatsby’s world by saying “I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited” Nick's invitation means that Gatsby wanted him to be there. When Gatsby throws these parties people just show up with no invite from Gatsby and they just went because of what the rumors and expectations. This means that Gatsby want to be seen but mostly by Daisy which is Nick's cousin and Nick will probably say good things about him to

In Gatsby's first party you notice how difficult it is to find Gatsby, so hard in fact some people don't think he is real. In the scene where he meets Gatsby he didn't even realize he was talking to him “This is an unusual party for me. I haven't even seen the host” (Fitzgerald 52). You can also notice that just because he throws all the amazing parties doesn't mean he has friends or a wife, it’s difficult to notice this within just the first three chapters that’s why it becomes more dominate throughout the book. This is a problem many people in life can relate to, which is why I believe Fitzgerald included this subject into the book. All the characters in the book besides nick are consumed in the the pursuit of possessions, by which American culture was swept away during the Roaring Twenties (Boivin,L). The idea of having the most luxurious thing became a contest amongst the community, for example, having the biggest house, nicest car, best vacations, etc. Nick is an interesting character because even though he establishes that he came from great opportunities he still lives in a humble home and is more than okay with it. He doesn't lust after the rich and famous life quite how most people

The Great Gatsby movie is adapted from a novel wrote written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

In “The Great Gatsby” a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald discusses the American Dream and the Pursuit of Happiness. He expresses throughout the novel how the idea of the American Dream is romanized and ultimately impossible to achieve, which is shown through the careless and selfish social values and through the ‘easy’ money (made by Gatsby) causing this idea of the American Dream to become warped and and corrupted. The large contrast between the two social classes of the upper class- ‘old money’ and ‘new money’ is also expressed throughout the novel, where Jay Gatsby portrays the self-achieved newly rich, while Daisy and Tom Buchanan represent the aristocracy of the ‘old money’. Fitzgerald portrays this large contrast

The way he treats his milieu also exposes his narcissism. Although he regularly hosts gigantic parties in the hopes of attracting Daisy, he doesn’t treat any of the other individual guests with grace. People start streaming in early in the day and swim in his pool, and stay far past midnight, yet none of these patrons know who the mysterious Gatsby is. When Nick firsts encounters him,