Analytical Essay On The Great Gatsby

Myrtle yearns to be with Tom and live in his wealth but is prevented from doing so by Tom and Daisy. For instance, when Daisy tries to leave Tom for Gatsby, Tom does not exactly dismiss Myrtle, “…but there is no question that she would eventually be discarded” (Donaldson). Myrtle is so infatuated with Tom, she forgot that he can just as well choose Daisy over her. He has the upper hand, as a rich man with control over women especially when it comes to his relationships. While to Tom, Myrtle’s gender has made her just one of his possessions, to Myrtle, Tom’s rich and high status as a man has made him her only path to a higher class. Due to her infatuation with Tom, she often becomes jealous and possessive when she finds a threat to their relationship. Myrtle is so overcome with desire for Tom that she cannot stand the thought of him with another women. Even when she sees Tom in the car with Jordan Baker, Myrtle’s, “… eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, whom she too to be his wife” (Fitzgerald 125). Myrtle is so convinced that Tom is hers, when in reality, she is really Tom’s. Myrtle has almost forgotten the fact that as an inferior women, she has little control over the situation. The reality is that Tom was in control of the relationship and used Myrtle for his lustrous desires. Tom’s rejection of Myrtle causes her to become overrun with jealousy. In

Myrtle is married to a man named George Wilson who is a car mechanist. She lives in the Valley of Ashes which is described to be, “a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke…” It is basically a poor part of the town. When Nick Carraway first sees her, he describes her as, “…in a moment the thickish figure of a woman...” Nick Carraway also says that she was in her mid-thirties and is, “…faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously...” She is also described not to have a gleam of beauty in her face. Myrtle Wilson is having an affair with Tom Buchanan and met him while riding a train. She doesn’t feel bad about cheating on her husband and idolizes Tom but it seems like Tom treats her like a sexual object rather than a

“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so,” once said Charles de Gaulle. This valiant quote by a former president of France accentuates my opinion of the Great Jay Gatsby. From humble beginnings rises our main focus of F. Scott Fitzgeralds’ The Great Gatsby. Young Jimmy Gatz is brought to West Egg from his heavily impoverished North Dakota family. His desire to be something greater than a farmer drove him to fortune and love through any means necessary; his life long obsession, Daisy Fay, infatuates Jay in his own insatiable thirst for her affection. James follows Daisy in the years after he is deployed to World War 1, and when he sees she has married Tom Buchanan he becomes hell-bent on replicating the success Tom has inherited in order to win over Daisy. Through moderately deceitful ways, Jay Gatsby builds his wealth and reputation to rival and even supersede many already lavish family names. Astonishingly, the great Mr. Gatsby, overrun with newfound affluence, stays true to his friends, lover, and his own ideals to his blissfully ignorant end.

Myrtle is Tom's mistress, which allows her play the role of a well educated wealthy woman. Myrtle is deceptive and untrustworthy because she is married, and is having a secret affair with Tom buchanan. The very first time we meet her in the book “she smiled slowly and, walking through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye”(26). By having an affair with Tom she is betraying her husband, and she seems to have no remorse about it. Myrtle is described as being “ faintly stout, but she carries her surplus flesh sensuously as some woman can. Her face, [...] contained no facet or glean of beauty”(25). From her physical description the reader can infer that she is not very nice and standoffish. She treats

Myrtle is chasing her American dream by having an affair with Tom Buchanan.Tom is a very wealthy man who is married to Daisy.Myrtle is unhappy with her husband George who is not a very wealthy man.Her image of living the dream was to go with Tom.She felt that her life would be complete and live the life that she was meant to

Myrtle also adds to this stigma. She longs for a life that is fun and glamorous, but reality is she is the wife of a pump mechanic, meaning she will never have access to mobility in class or status. She is a lower class woman, which led her to engage in an affair with Tom Buchanan; it is the closest she will come to feeling higher up socially. Myrtle will do just about anything to be a part of the upper class despite the consequences. There was even a point in time when Tom physically hits her, breaking her nose and yet she still stayed with him just to continue lavishing in this fantasy she so eagerly wanted to become real (Fitzgerald, pg 37). That scene and the dynamic of her and Tom represent the subordination of the lower class and the mistreatment of women within the lower class.

To Myrtle Wilson, the American Dream is to become wealthy and high class. For her, this is impossible. She is married to a working class man who owns an auto shop in a rundown part of New York. Myrtle is so corrupted by money that she cheats on her hardworking, loving husband, in order to be with Tom Buchanon’s money. When describing her marriage, Myrtle said, “The only crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in . . . then I lay down and cried to beat the band all afternoon” (35). She was, of course, talking about money issues. She thought her husband was wealthy, but when he had to borrow a suit, she became depressed and she believed her life was ruined. Myrtles unhealthy fixation on money ruined her marriage, and led to her becoming Tom’s mistress. Tom can supply her with the wealth she needs to feel happy. When given the chance, Tom will take Myrtle to parties just so she can wear the fancy clothing that he gave her. This

However, when she is with her husband George, reality kicks in. Myrtle is living in two worlds with both of these men. With Tom she is part of the higher class, and has a social status to maintain. When she is with her husband, she is a poor middle class women with not even a dime to her name. “I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,” (Fitzgerald 34), in order words Myrtle is telling her friend Ms. Mckee that she only married George because she thought he was rich.

Her rudeness becomes more apparent when she "rejected the compliment about her dress by raising her eyebrow in disdain". She is so false in her manner that Nick observes that she "had changed her costume…and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress". This understandable portrayal of Myrtle catches her fakeness. She was not being herself, however practically faking it to execute as a privileged woman. It is an abominable, eager strategy to pursue social prevalence. An alternate strategy is her issue with Tom Buchanan, who speaks to the rich high society. This issue and relationship with Tom addresses the falseness and decay in class capability. Outside the domain of importance, Myrtle 's political

As Myrtle’s relationship with George Wilson deteriorates and she is disenchanted with his limited lifestyle, she desires more and thus when she meets Tom he offers her this. In some distorted way, Myrtle thinks that Tom will leave his beautiful wife Daisy and marry her, Tom doesn’t truly see the relationship between Myrtle and himself being a true relationship, he just believes she is someone he can call upon unannounced and use her for a sexual relationship. But Myrtle has other plans for the two of them. This is made clear when he breaks Myrtle’s nose we she mentioned his wife’s name: “‘Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!’ shouted Mrs. Wilson. ‘I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy Dai-‘Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand” (Fitzgerald, 1926)This harsh action implied by Tom, really puts Mrs. Wilson in her place, making her come to her sense of what she can and cannot say. This reaction from Tom signifies that it is not a pure love existing between them. Further, Myrtle’s desire for the material goods Tom can provide shapes her conception of their alleged love, which is evidently greatly distorted as shown through Tom’s treatment of her.

The American romantic drama, The Great Gatsby (1974), directed by Jack Clayton. The movie film based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel. This film won the Academy award for Best Costume Design, Academy award for Best Original Song Score, and Golden award for Best Supporting Actress. This is a tale of love, American Dream, and tragedy. The Great Gatsby has four film adaptations, there are two versions with especially big- budget and well known movies: The 1974 version and 2013 version. The 1974 version was released on March 29, 1974 and the 2013 version was released on May 1, 2013. The 1974 version took place in Rosecliff and Marble House mansions in Newport, Rhode Island. The narrator of this film is Nick Carraway (Sam Waterston), Gatsby’s neighbor and he tells the story about Gatsby’s life. As the film begins, Nick is on a white boat heading to the West Egg, Long Island (New York). He moved to New York because he want to become a bond salesman. The story line revolves around the main character Jay Gatsby (Robert Redford), millionaire, who desires the love from Daisy Fay Buchanan and chasing his American Dream. Gatsby believes that he has the well-known name and money, he can have whatever he wants. For example, the love that he lost five years ago, time, friends, and beauty. There are many prominent characters in this film, Daisy (Mia Farrow) plays an important role in this film because she represents the wealth and the American Dream in this film. She is the person that

Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is one of the most carefully structured stories of all time. The narrator, Nick, is a very clever and well-spoken storyteller. Nick confides to the reader in the first pages of the novel. He says that he needs to tell the story of a man called Gatsby. It is as if Nick has to overcome disappointment and frustration with a man who has left him with painful memories. Nick says that, even though Gatsby did alright in the end, “it was the foul dust that collected in his wake” that disgusts him now. Nick, begins the novel with uncomfortable memories. Time is a meaningful concept in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. This thesis is valid for three main reasons. First, it is evident that dreams and memories are central to the overall plot and meaning. Secondly, the American Dream is a “green light” of desire that Gatsby never stops yearning for and something he will not forget over time, even as he is dying. Even though no one cares about Gatsby or his dreams after he died, except maybe Nick. Finally, the fact that Fitzgerald uses flashback; that Nick is telling us about a main character after he has already died and before the story begins, is the ultimate proof. The Great Gatsby is structured by Nick’s memory. Fitzgerald’s is a very clever use of flashback throughout and within the novel is the greatest evidence that he intended his novel to be centered on memory and going back in time. The first obvious proof that time is a meaningful concept in

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that the american dream a delusion, He goes on to suggest that the people who pursue it are unsatisfied or corrupt, and the pursuit of the American dream is ultimately a tragedy. The American dream says that any single individual can be successful if they try hard enough to be. The way to be successful though, it to use your gifts and natural abilities to word hard and earn your keep.

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a story where the time is set during the 1920’s. The book illustrates many of the different things happening during the 1920’s in New York City. Nick Carraway a nice man from Minnesota, accomplished his academic career and finished serving in WW1 later decides to move to New York City, where he moved to West Egg (in a neighborhood that is shady and gangsters roaming around) and met someone named Jay Gatsby, who loves Nick’s cousin, Daisy Buchanan, who is married to Tom Buchanan. The story informs us about the many criminal acts ongoing under New York City, involving with gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, and murder. One specific character James Gatz, who was in involved with Meyer Wolfsheim who did illegal business, later on Gatsby changed his name to Jay Gatsby, he was involved with bootlegging, after alcohol was banned (by the 18 amendment) in January 1920. The New York police was also corrupt and controlled by them,” Taking a white card from his wallet he waved it before the [the police] man’s eyes” (Fitzgerald 72. He avoided getting in trouble. Sadly, Gatsby became close to Nick to get close to Daisy, which eventually led to his downfall, by taking the blame for Daisy when she ran over George B. Wilson’s wife, Myrtle Wilson. If Gatsby had been more careful towards making Tom unaware of Daisy’s activities, by not taking the blame,

The Roaring Twenties was a period of greed characterized by an avaricious compulsion to accumulate material goods. After The Great War, the booming economy elevated the middle class and led to the sexual and moral revolution. Coming from modest means, Scott Fitzgerald aspired to assimilate into this new social class. The Great Gatsby is considered one of Fitzgerald’s best novels; it mirrored his own personal triumphs, defeats, and disillusionments. However, The Great Gatsby:1974 Film fails to depict Jay Gatsby’s values, and ironically, the ultimate tragedy that made the novel lovable among readers. Gatsby’s steadfast determination to reconstruct his past led to his demise. Furthermore, Gatsby's capacity to forgive, his idealistic dream of loving Daisy, and his ability to make a name for himself demonstrated his “greatness”. The movie is a classic and should be watched by Fitzgerald’s readers, but should not be highly praised to avoid disappointment.