Analysis Of The Great Gatsby And A Streetcar Named Desire

The great Gatsby suggests materialistic and possessive love through the relationship of Daisy and Gatsby. Fitzgerald shows this side of Gatsby through a metaphor “he took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them“ the idea of Gatsby throwing his shirts at Daisy is him showing off how wealthy he is now. Gatsby thinks if he shows Daisy how much money he has she will be attracted to him, he is trying to compete with Tom for Daisy by trying to buy things that Daisy would be an appeal to her. Gatsby had done all of this for Daisy because in the 1920s it was typical that wealthy people would marry other wealthy people and Gatsby was not a wealthy man when he met Daisy. Gatsby expects Daisy to be in love with him instantly, and for her to leave Tom for him “she loves me” he just assumes that Daisy would do that which is not the case, Gatsby is stuck in the idea that he can make

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby was born into a life of poverty and as he grew up he became more aware of the possibility of a better life. He created fantasies that he was too good for his modest life and that his parents weren’t his own. When he met Daisy, a pretty upper class girl, his life revolved around her and he became obsessed with her carefree lifestyle. Gatsby’s desire to become good enough for Daisy and her parents is what motivates him to become a wealthy, immoral person who is perceived as being sophisticated.

Gatsby creates an identity for himself as a wealthy man, who lives a glamorous life by throwing huge parties, and is known by the most prestigious figures in New York. What the partygoers don’t realize is that the parties and his wealth is all in the hopes of rekindling with his love from the past, Daisy. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the story of a young man named Jay Gatsby, who came from nothing, and built up to be everything that he had hoped and dreamed of being. However, his one dream did not become a reality due to misfortunate events. All the money in the world couldn’t make Gatsby happy, as he died as his true self, not the identity he created for himself.

Is your life revolved around how much money you have, what you can buy, or what you look like? In The Great Gatsby, the lives of the characters are revolved around the importance of money and the materials they own. Tom and Daisy Buchanan are two very important people that let their money control their lives, such as Daisy marrying Tom solely for is money so that she will be provided for her entire life. Gatsby is a prime example of all the wrong reasons of wanting to accomplish the American dream. He wanted to impress Daisy, so he lied and cheated his way to the top in order to prove to her that he was worth it, and now that he has money, he allowed it to take control of him and his true purpose. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald allows the

The Great Gatsby, a highly acclaim American novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, entails the demise of the American dream by means of drawing a parallel between Jay Gatsby, a character whom covers his inner qualities with the idealistic characteristics of the rich during the Roaring Twenties in order to obtain the affection go the beloved and deeply flawed Daisy. Regrettably, throughout his conquest for Daisy’s affection, Gatsby falsely presumes that through his accumulation of wealth he will be able to acquire his deeply embedded desires for happiness, which mainly revolve around his acquisition of Daisy Buchanan. Eventually, Gatsby’s wealth ultimately results in his cataclysmic demise, as it is unable to provide him Daisy’s unconditional and

Gatsby, after having met Daisy, does everything in his power to make a lot of money from the nothing he had through illegal means. When Gatsby made a lot of money through his business, he moved into a large wealthy house right across the bay from Daisy to impress her. He throws large, extravagant parties in the hope that Daisy will come over to one of them, which Fitzgerald also uses to illustrate how people pursued only their pleasure with parties and alcohol even though it was banned. Later when Daisy meets with Gatsby, he shows her his house and Fitzgerald emphasizes that all Gatsby cares about is how Daisy sees it and how Daisy just sees the wealth, “He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real” (Fitzgerald, 91).

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, “The Great Gatsby”, the character Jay Gatsby dedicated his life on becoming rich so he can finally pursue Daisy but as the story goes, there were many barriers that kept them apart from each other. Daisy was not just passionate about Gatsby, she also idolized Tom and they have a family together that they have made ever since Gatsby and Daisy separated . Also, he surrounded himself with a bunch of people that he wasn’t familiar and lavished them with the things that they loved but at the end, they all left him hanging by himself. But with all the love and things that Gatsby offered to Daisy, she didn’t return back the favor of loving him forever. In the novel, the Fitzgerald shows that with all the things that Jay Gatsby can buy with his money, it still didn’t bring him happiness because it

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a young and charming man who has an almost unfeasible ambition, to capture the graceful Daisy Buchanan’s heart. The only catch is, Daisy is married to somebody else, the affluent yet intimidating Tom Buchanan. Despite this, Gatsby will do anything to win her over and is almost oblivious to the fact that she is married and has a child. Due to the circumstances, the unmindful Gatsby eventually fails, and Daisy decides to stay with wealth and security. In thesis, Gatsby has a dream to repeat the past and does almost anything to accomplish it; however, in the end, his dream comes to an abrupt halt, along with life itself.

Both Gatsby and Blanche are vulnerable because of the illusions they create that form part of their identities. In the beginning of their respective novels, The Great Gatsby and A Streetcar Named Desire, they are cunning, calculating, and self-aware of their illusions. They try to escape from their barren pasts and create entirely new, magical lives for themselves, ones that they are able to control. Gatsby exudes power, status, and confidence, “picking his words with great care” at his party so that he can attain Daisy. Blanche is equally careful, telling herself to “ keep hold of [my]self” and restraining the amount of alcohol she drinks. But as the novel progresses and they unravel their true selves, they forget where they stem from and begin to believe in the magical world they are creating. Gatsby becomes so infatuated with Daisy that he completely forgets about the impracticality of their relationship as Daisy is already married to Tom; he thinks that he can “fix everything just the way it was before” with the power of his persona. Similarly, Blanche begins to believe that she can marry Mitch and achieve her dreams of being wealthy, being respected, and having an ideal relationship but without telling anybody about her past. But once they are close to achieving their dreams, their illusions are shattered by more powerful characters in the novel. Daisy openly admits her love for Gatsby, and they begin to regain the love they once shared, but Tom shatters both Gatsby’s

When we think of Gatsby as a character, we would typically describe him as dedicated, cunning, and, more importantly, as a dreamer. This aspect of his character worked to his advantage in many situations, as shown when his dreams of being something more than a farmer led him to run away from his past life, and helped him gain his fortune. However, with some areas of his life, this proved to be a hindrance. While we all must be able to think creatively and think of new ideas, it is also important to know when to come down to earth. If Gatsby had learned his, he could have avoided his tragic fate. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses Gatsby’s love for Daisy to show that we need to focus on the present.

The transformation between James Gatz and Jay Gatsby is an example of how people can transform themselves according to their ambition for wealth and prosperity. The use of illegal activities to gain Gatsby's wealth is alluded to in the book, this shows the extent of how the American Dream circumvented the moral revulsion and pushed people who were crazy about money into crime - driving the moral standing of wealthier citizens into the ground. To Gatsby, his dream was symbolised by Daisy, Gatsby even says that her voice sounds like money, a direct correlation between Daisy and the wealth and happiness that Gatsby would supposedly enjoy if only he could have married Daisy but could still enjoy if he had married her five years later. His pursuit of happiness with Daisy was the ultimate cause of the degradation of Gatsby's morals and realistic dreams. This is because he held an unrealistic view of life and how he could recreate the past. His dreams had distorted reality to the point where when his rationality realised that the image of life and of Daisy did not coincide with the real life version his mind did not grasp that perhaps the dream had receded to the point of no return, consequently his dreams helped to

Blanche Dubois and Jay Gatsby are portrayed as tragic heroes throughout A Streetcar Named Desire and The Great Gatsby. In tragic novels and plays protagonists are often dealing with a conflict that they will ultimately lose in some way. The protagonist is often trying to right a wrong that leads to the world returning to the way it was before the conflict. Blanche wants to return to the old south when she was a young girl and Gatsby to when he first met Daisy during the war. A tragic hero would have traditionally been portrayed in literature as someone who was high born or in a position of importance however Arthur Miller believed that ordinary people can be the subject of tragedies.

All characters throughout the 2 novels “The Great Gatsby” and “A streetcar Named Desire “just might not be what they appear to be. And other will appear as shown. Both Gatsby and blanch present an untruthful appearance because what they appear is completely different then the reality. But in contrast Tom and Stanley present a truthful appearance because their reality is as shown in their appearance. Therefor Both Tennessee Williams and F. Schott Fitzgerald create a cast of characters who symbolize the theme of appearance versus reality. Therefor certain characters’ present appearance (Gatsby and Blanche) because they tell lies while certain characters represent reality (Stanley and Tom), both authors manipulate appearance to highlight a character

From youth, individuals have been told what has happened in the past is behind them and they can move on with their lives. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, the past is a key element. First of all, in both text forms Gatsby and Blanche go against their values to get back a part of their life that has been lost. Furthermore, both characters create an image of wealth to mask the tragedies of their past. Lastly, characters past has a major effect on their current lives, however, both characters have different intentions depicted by their past. Similarly in The Great Gatsby and A Streetcar Named Desire the author and playwright uses

In the short story, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams published in 1947. It is about a schoolteacher named Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister, Stella in New Orleans. Blanche has been through a lot of traumatic situations where it affects her in her life through her relationship, especially with men. She has hidden her past from the old and new people she comes across. Tennessee has similar connections when it comes to family and personal issues just different scenarios. He used his life experiences he went through continuously to create a drama-filled and controversy through the characters in the story.