Character Analysis of Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Melisa Zeng Ms. Rowe IB Native Language 1 22 December 2015 Dynamic Changes | IOP Analytical Paper With modernism as framework, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Elliot, and George Bernard Shaw have all created literary works that marked the new and unorthodox ways of viewing and interacting with the world with the beginning of the twentieth century. The Great Gatsby, The Love Song of J. A. Prufrock, The Wasteland, and Pygmalion portrayed the rejection of principles for religion, tradition, and morality…

The Great Gatsby is an extraordinary novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who tells the story about the wealthy man of Long Island named, Jay Gatsby, a middle aged man with a mysterious past, who lives at a gothic mansion and hosts many parties with many strangers who were not entirely invited. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, many characters are discussed uniquely to an extent from the festive, yet status hungry Roaring Twenties. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald introduces…

each character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby shows dissatisfaction. All of the characters do not seem to be pleased with their current lives, whether it be with love, opportunity, and, most importantly, themselves. This dissatisfaction shows how careless the wealthy citizens of the 1920’s were. Because of this, each of the characters are constantly craving more of what they desire, causing them to lose themselves due to the deadly sin of greed. The rootlessness of Jay Gatsby, Nick…

1. Nick Carroway was a great narrator for The Great Gatsby because he was so unbiased and open-minded to the world. He was tolerant and an attentive listener to whoever was speaking. He represented a quiet, tolerant, and reflective man from the Midwest during the 1920’s. "I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at every one, and yet to avoid all eyes." (15), this quote expresses Tom’s quiet feature and how he wants to avoid all unnecessary attention. Jordan Baker is a prime example for the…

Gregory Destine AP Lit Mrs. Hargis 9/27/15 MAJOR WORKS DATA SHEET Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Date of Publication: 1925 Genre: Jazz Age novel (Louis Armstrong, Al Capone, etc.) Biographical Information about the Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896. He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and his parents were both born in Maryland and Irish. You could say he grew up very lower middle class. Fitzgerald’s views of relationships began at an early age. It was interesting because…

One in twenty-five people suffer from borderline personality disorder, a condition where a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relations and self-image form at the beginning of early adulthood and continue on. Jay Gatsby pathologically has an excessive and erotic interest in himself and his physical attributes and appearance, which makes him classify as a narcissist. Narcissism and borderline personality disorder can combine together to make a unique set of symptoms, such as a need…

Literary Analysis of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby is an incredible novel written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a prolific American author, and published by Scribner’s. Nevertheless, during its first release, the book sold poorly and received mixed reviews. In fact, Fitzgerald died in 1940 considering himself and his works a failure. However, the onset of the Second World War revived the novel, which later became an essential component of high school curricula and different…

that came about from these wars and was seen in these eras was the attitudes that people felt for one another. In the literature of the two time periods, these attitudes are very accurately depicted. The first piece of literature is F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a 1920’s set novel that shows the way that people treated others. The second, The Death of a Salesman, the 1950’s set play, produced by Arthur Miller. Each of these pieces give insight to the way that people were treated and some…

author of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The author strives to display multiple purposes to readers through strong, sophisticated writing. The purposes Fitzgerald shows in The Great Gatsby include that substance in relationships matters, the truth is important, and that actions have consequences. Fitzgerald executes the purposes successfully by using rhetorical choices such as irony, homilies, simple dialogue, similes, and syntax A recurring purpose displayed by Fitzgerald, to his readers…

simple pairing of major characters and minor characters. Although major characters make up most of the storyline, minor characters support it and easily add to important elements of the story. This is evident throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F.Scott Fitzgerald. This novel has a narrator by the name of, Nick Carraway, and over the course of the novel, he learns about many other minor characters namely Dan Cody, Meyer Wolfshiem and Jordan Baker. F.Scott Fitzgerald strategically placed…