Analysis Of The Book ' The Great Gatsby '

The 1920s in America, known as the "Roaring Twenties", was a time of celebration after a destructive war. It was a period of time in America characterised by prosperity and optimism. There was a general feeling of disruption associated with modernity and a break with traditions.The Roaring Twenties was a time of great economic prosperity and many people became rich and wealthy. Some people inherited "old money" and some obtained "new money". However, there was the other side of prosperity and many people also suffered the nightmare of being poor. In the novel,The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is portrayed as a wealthy character

Dreams are a compelling force in people’s lives. They are what propel them forward each and every day in an effort to reach something better. The American Dream has been sought after by millions all over the world for hundreds of years. This country was founded on the belief that anyone could achieve their dreams. However, in the 1920s these hopes and aspirations began to splinter until they ultimately shattered. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses symbolism, setting, and theme to depict the unattainability of the American Dream.

The plot of The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is driven by Jay Gatsby's

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a novel that highlights the stark contrast between the rich elites of East Egg and the dirt-poor ashen people of the Valley of Ashes through the reckless power that the wealthy of this world can exert on the unfortunate. As concluded by Nick in the novel, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness [...] and let other people clean up the mess they had made” (Fitzgerald, 179). By thoroughly examining the thoughtless actions of Daisy and Tom Buchanan and their consequences, Baz Luhrmann's rendition of The Great Gatsby portrays the carelessness of the elites more effectively than the novel. Through the inclusion of additional scenes and the omission of some, Baz Luhrmann conveys the utter disregard that Tom and Daisy posses towards other characters in the novel.

Although modern society may be heavily motivated by avarice now, it hasn’t always been this way. The term “American Dream” came into existence in the 1920s when ideas were similar to the ones we have now. As shown several times in the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the American Dream was the want for materialistic things. The greed during this time period led to the stock market crash and

In The Great Gatsby, the author, F Scott Fitzgerald depicts the post - war roaring 20’s, a time of overwhelming prosperity and a new found sense of hope for the future. While this novel is often perceived as a romance, it is also a criticism on the devastating nature of the elusive american dream. The story of Jay Gatsby is a representation of what had become the values of the individual at the time. With the progression of the early 1920’s the vision of the perfect life, or the american dream, had been skewed. It was replaced with greed, and an abundance of reckless spending in which the wealthier individuals placed their misguided ideas of happiness. In the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald chooses to expose the hidden truth behind the illustrious concept of the American dream. Through his use of literary devices such as, symbolism, metaphor, and, irony the central idea of the truly unattainable American dream is supported throughout the novel.

“The orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” is the unattainable goal of those living in Tom and Daisy’s world—a world where lives are wasted chasing the unreachable (Fitzgerald 180). In his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that making any progress whatsoever toward this aspiration often requires people to establish facades that enable them to progress socially, but that a crippled facade will backfire and cause detriment to its creator. In the passage where Nick realizes who Gatsby is on page 48, Nick observes two different versions of Gatsby—one that is reassuring and truthful and another who “pick[s] his words with care” (Fitzgerald 48). Nick is at first attracted to Gatsby’s constructed

The American Dream is defined as the “idea that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative” (Adams). This idea has been relevant to Americans ever since the creation of the United States of America. Everyone has their own interpretation of it and embody it in their own way. Over time, the American Dream has been altered and changed in regards to how our society has evolved. During the 1920s, the American Dream became corrupt and America’s main focus was on materialism and wealth. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, he depicts the corruption of the American Dream based on greed and false prosperity which strayed from the true version of it which valued hard-work, and initiative.

In the past the American Dream was an inspiration to many, young and old. To live out the American Dream was what once was on the minds of many Americans. In The Great Gatsby, the American Dream was presented as a corrupted version of what used to be a pure and honest ideal way to live. The idea that the American Dream was about the wealth and the possessions one had been ingrained, somehow, into the minds of Americans during the 1920’s. As a result of the distortion of the American Dream, the characters of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby along with many others, lived life fully believing in the American Dream, becoming completely immersed in it and in the end suffered great tragedies.

The midwest is known for down-to-earth goodness, for wholesome, satisfying conceptions of morality that satisfied the masses of people who immigrated there in the 19th and 20th centuries. Morality, in that conventional, midwestern way, is merely a set of rules governing the difference between right and wrong - a simple duality. Dualistic thought suffices for us most because it is simple and it makes sense - actions are either right or wrong, people are either good or bad. The reason duality has human appeal is because it allows us to think of our lives without much complexity, without much potential for fearful or overwhelming existential thought. Most people in the world follow Judeo-Christian forms of religions because those religions establish conceptions of morality that present simple dualities. Actions are either moral or immoral; there is god, and there is the devil; there is heaven, and there is hell. Midwestern ethics derive directly from these modes of thought, and therefore Nick Carraway’s ethics also derive from those modes of thought. However, Nick, like so many others returning from World War One, is forced to question his existence in a way that is deeply unsettling, in a way that forces him to, if only for a summer, abandon the dualism associated with conventional midwestern thought. Ultimately, Nick becomes morally ambiguous not because his ‘moral’ decisions

In The Great Gatsby, the American Dream is depicted in an adverse and undesired manner. When Nick Carraway moves to the West Egg district of Long Island he realizes the American Dream has been corrupted (Fitzgerald 10). Fitzgerald describes the 1920s as an era that is fraudulent and corrupt. We see that Gatsby is not someone that truly followed the American Dream to gain prosperity and wealth. Gatsby’s wealth was derived from bootlegging alcohol and other illegal products and this symbolized the 1920s as an era of newfound materialism and unprecedented success (Millett 1). Gatsby’s desire for wealth and power was influenced greatly by his old friend Dan Cody. While working and traveling with Cody on his yacht, Gatsby falls in love with luxury and wealth. Cody leaves Gatsby twenty-five thousand dollars when he dies, but could not claim it because of Cody’s mistress (Fitzgerald 107). After this event Gatsby was determined and focused in becoming a wealthy man down the road. Dan Cody made Gatsby the person he shaped and evolved into. Jay Gatsby utilizes his power and wealth in attempt to get what he always desired for. His love for Daisy was something he thought he could buy his way through by impressing her with extravagant and grandiose parties every week. The green light at the end of the dock symbolizes Gatsby’s love and desire for Daisy. Even though Daisy and Gatsby had a deep and strong connection their love could not last because of

“The Great Gatsby”, a famous and well known work of literature by F. Scott Fitzgerald makes many references to this american dream throughout the novel. The book takes place in the 1920’s, known as the “roaring 20s”. The narrator of the book, Nick, explains how the american dream used to be about discovery of early citizens, and the pursuit of happiness. He also explains how he believes that as time went on, particularly during the 1920s, which happens to be when the story is taking place, people start to have more materialistic desires, and the american dream had unfortunately turned from the pursuit of happiness, to the pursuit of wealth

At the end of the novel of The Great Gatsby, Nick recounts all the things that had just occurred and says “ I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all —Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.” Nick says it was a story of the West because they all had the common trait of being lured and accustomed into the Eastern style instead of their origins in the West. The West proven to not be the preferable home of each of these characters, as they all made the decision to move to the East. On the East, where there was a rapid and growing dream of wealth and prosperity. Once they achieve this, they think they can do what ever they want, after all they have gotten the classic American dream so now what is there to achieve? Although the wealthy should hold high profile images, much trouble is caused by them as portrayed by some of the main characters in the book. Tom, Gatsby and Daisy are each characters that couldn’t adapt to Eastern life. Each went through different fates, but all with the common deficiency of being affected negatively by Eastern life and portray an overall story of their lives rooted from the West.

Everyone’s reality, cultures, lives, have a different idea of what hell is, what qualifies as a sin, and what are effective punishments. In some cultures even being left-handed can lend you a hand in going to hell. However, I don’t have time in fifteen minutes to tell you a story for every single hell that could possibly exist but I do have just enough time to tell you a story about the Gatsby Hell.

“The Great Gatsby” is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City from spring to autumn of 1922. The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the “roaring” as the economy soared. At the same time, prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely