Character Analysis Of The Great Gatsby

Perhaps the most important aspect of a character's personality is whether he or she is an admirable person. Sherlock Holmes, for example, is a great character because he tries his best to investigate crimes even at times of difficulty. In Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence is admirable because he gives the two lovers support and tries to help them to be together. The Friar is a holy man who is respected by others and was the only person who cared about Romeo and Juliet’s relationship. In the majority of classic literature, an admirable person is always loyal towards others, committed to their dreams, and makes the decisions by themselves. This is the case with Gatsby. One of the reasons why Gatsby is an admirable man is that his positive qualities outway his negative qualities.

Throughout The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby’s character was the strongest and most developed. In the beginning of the novel, it was challenging to get a good idea of what kind of person Gatsby was. Although, as the novel progressed, it was shown that he was very admirable, dedicated, a romantic, and always had hope.

Nick can not truthfully be classified as an honest character because his mind is filled with poisonous thoughts and criticism towards the other characters. Nick cares more about fitting in with the rich and sophisticated Gatsby, Daisy, Jordan and Tom rather than to point out their flaws. One example of Nick’s dishonesty is when Gatsby offers Nick a job, Nick is quick to decline, “I’ve got my hands full. I’m much obliged but I couldn’t take on any more work” (Fitzgerald 83). Nick politely declines, revering Gatsby’s persistence. Nick resented Gatsby’s work because he had deemed Gatsby unmoral and was quick to make assumptions about the line of work it could have been. This is an indirect way of showing Nick’s disapproval. Nick’s passiveness and hesitation in dealing with a situation he obviously disapproves of shows his

The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald gives the reader a look inside the drama driven world of the high class of New York. Told from the point of view of one of the novel’s protagonists Nick Carraway, the novel displays recurring themes of love and deceit. The narrator considers himself to be on the outside looking in, and he feels justified in judging the characters within the elite society due to his belief that his sense of morality is stronger than theirs. Despite his belief, however, he unintentionally reveals to the reader the true manner of his character, which is really just as unacceptable as the people he commentates on. Though Nick prides himself in his honesty, he falls in love with Jordan Baker, suggesting that he is not better than the high society he abhors.

In The Great Gatsby, Nick’s perspective on others is much different compared to how he responds to Gatsby. Nick sees Tom, Daisy, Jordan, Myrtle, and Wolfshiem all self-centered and shady individuals who are lost in the time era. However, Nick is enlightened by Gatsby; he is interested in Gatsby and uncovering his inner realness since he recognized many characteristics that he wishes people would hold (Bevilacqua). In the first chapter of the novel, when leaving New York heading to the Midwest, he says that he has lost all hope for humans because they have seemed to have lost their morality (Will). Nick continues to say he is one of the few honest people he has met. When he meets Gatsby and starts to discover Gatsby’s emotions, he finds that Gatsby is different from all his other acquaintances; he’s true to his word and proves it all throughout the story.

Gatsby is a character who aspired to be successful and to realize his dreams of love and wealth, however, when he faced his reality he was never able to fully accomplish his dreams, revealing that one will use all their energy to hold on to a dream that will never reach a reality.

The Great Gatsby, by F.Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about a man that is in love and thats wants his love that he had 5 years ago he want to repeat the past. How did Gatsby changes in the book from the beginning, to middle, to end of the book? Gatsby changes throughout the entire book. changes in him are linked to daisy.Gatsby changes and things start going his way, until the end, when he loses everything he worked for.Gatsby changes the most

Have you ever noticed how people almost always talk about what they do not have instead of what they do? Well in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, this is a major part of the book. Fitzgerald’s characters are used to show that people are greedy and always will be. Specifically, Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby to show that society is greedy because he always focuses on what he does not have instead of what he does have. First, Fitzgerald shows how Gatsby does everything to impress Daisy, by how Gatsby becomes rich to win her over and how he does everything for Daisy. Secondly, Fitzgerald shows how Gatsby throws extravagant parties to impress Daisy. Finally, he shows how Gatsby is not happy being rich or poor. This is important because

Francis Scott Fitzgerald, the author of a book widely renowned as the greatest American novel, is known for his tendency to insert autobiographical elements within his works of fiction. Within The Great Gatsby itself, Fitzgerald wrote scenes and storylines from his own corrupted and perverse experiences, ones brought about by his damaged psyche. The greatest examples of Fitzgerald’s personal biography within The Great Gatsby are the amoral female characters which he wrote. Nevertheless the fact that the 1920s are widely regarded as the era in history when feminism first began to have a fighting chance, Fitzgerald wrote his female characters as destructive forces who are less than their male counterparts and have to be controlled. Fitzgerald’s misogynistic opinions are present in Daisy, a woman villainized despite being under the control of others, Jordan, a corrupted girl who negatively represents the feminism of the jazz age, and Myrtle, a character who was written more like an animal than she was a woman. Drawing from his own negative experiences with women, including unhealthy obsessions with those out of his social league and an affair-ridden marriage with his wife, Fitzgerald branded his female characters within The Great Gatsby with practically irredeemable qualities, revealing his sexist ideals and intentions.

The novel The Great Gatsby is told from the point of view of a man name Nick Carraway. Nick Carraway is a young man from Minnesota who went to Yale then to New York to study business bonds. As Nick grew up, he followed a lesson that his father gave him, which was to never judge others. Because of that lesson, Nick grew up to be someone who is tolerant, open-minded, quiet, and a good listener, which made others want to talk to him more. Nick lives on the West Egg district of Long Island next to a mysterious rich man who is later revealed to be Gatsby. Gatsby is a romantic who dreams about the past of him and Daisy. He always looks at things optimistically and always looks for a solution. Gatsby would throw these extravagant parties that

Nick Carraway proves to be an unreliable narrator in The Great Gatsby because of his judgemental tone and hypocritical disposition in his biased views and

Despite the many times Nick has extolled Gatsby’s virtues, he has equally or exceedingly as frequently found faults in his character. The urge to acknowledge Gatsby’s flaws stem from a unique perspective which places Gatsby in a class of shallow, superficial, and morally corrupt individuals. Having just delivered a compliment, Nick immediately noted of Gatsby to himself: “I disapproved of him from beginning to end” (Fitzgerald 162). Much of this antagonism towards Gatsby stems from limited experiences with money and an absence of appreciation for those lifestyles. For instance, after leaving Tom’s place

Nick, throughout his narration, often intentionally overlooks Gatsby’s many wrong doings. He called the other characters a “rotten crowd” and that Gatsby “is worth a whole lot put together” (160). Nick sees Gatsby in an enlightened form as if he were somehow godlike, so anything that Gatsby did was understandable and divinely fair. Nick knows that Gatsby sells alcohol illegally, even though the Prohibition is in effect, and has a bond business with Mr. Wolfsheim—a man rumored to have fixed the Word Series. These instances conflict tremendously on Nicks personal views, as he was brought up in a crime free environment and he looks down upon the corruptness found on the East Coast. Despite of knowing all this, Nick quickly suspends judgments about Gatsby because of the fact that they are close friends and Nick admires Gatsby. Because Nick favors Gatsby over any other character in the book, Gatsby’s life is embellished and dramatized to the point where he is hyper analyzed. Many of Gatsby’s supposed actions and life events were all for good intentions according to Nick, but because Nick is bias towards Gatsby, what is said about him cannot be proven true. Gatsby’s characterization is flawed with bias as are the other acquaintances in the book, so the story can only be considered a representation of Nick’s perception rather than the perception of all parties

Lastly Fitzgerald uses details to strengthen the idea Nick’s character has evolved through the novel. He demonstrates this to the audience by describing how privy Nick is to secrets, “Most of the confidences were unsought-- frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.” He uses this statement to reiterate that in the beginning of the novel Nick’s character felt as though since he is an elite he was inclined to listen to these unequal men who plagiarize others suppressions to make themselves seem as though they were more powerful. Fitzgerald changes his attitude towards the end of the novel by suggesting Nick is now struggling with the careless people he is acquainted with and the decisions they believe are entirely justifiable. Tom believes that even though he is indirectly responsible for Gatsby’s death Nick does not realize what he has been through, “And if you think i didn’t have my share of suffering --look here, when i went to give up that flat and saw that damn box of dog biscuits sitting there on the sideboard, i sat down and cried like a baby.

The relationship between Nick and Gatsby, as well as showing who Gatsby really is, forces the reader to consider the concept of judgement.