Character Development In 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.

    The setting of a story is one of the most important components of the entire plot as it sets the tone for how the story is going to end and also how certain characters are going to act. In the novel “The Great Gatsby” the protagonist, Nick Caraway is an ambitious individual who is the neighbour of Jay Gatsby. Nick is very inspired by the way Gatsby lives and how he takes care of himself, but Nick never really attempts to make any type of interactions with him in the beginning of the story. Nick’s character changes entirely when he is invited to one of Mr. Gatsby parties and agrees to help him meet up with Daisy Buchanan after five long years of separation. Nick’s character changes in terms of behaviour, attitude, and relationships when he meets Gatsby and is ambitious to help him and act more like him. Nick’s character does not change immediately when he meets Gatsby, but throughout the course of the story the reader is able to recognize the significant changes.

Gatsby, while raised poor, dreamed of wealth as he grew up. When talking to Nick at the funeral, Gatsby’s father, explained to him that though he was poor, he always knew he had the potential of being something great. He said, “Jimmy always liked it better down east...He had a big future before him...he had a lot of brain power”(Fitzgerald, 168). There is no doubt that Gatsby was dedicated. He was seldom able to let go of a goal he set out to reach. Moreover, as

Titular character Jay Gatsby proves that America’s lower class in the Roaring Twenties was able to attain only the appearance of wealth. James Gatz, Gatsby’s birth name, was born to poor and shiftless farmers in Nebraska, but “The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his own platonic conception of himself” and amassed a large fortune for himself in an attempt to win over his long-time love interest (Fitzgerald 98). This would support the possibility of the American Dream and the ability to rise through class ranks, as Gatsby was able to

Nick Carraway, the narrator of The Great Gatsby, is claiming to be the most honest person he knows. Throughout the story, Nick is the person who gives the reader all the depictions of the other characters. Do we want to believe his depictions are true? Why should any reader believe Nick, who lives a life in seclusion apart from the rest of the characters? Are his statements of the others false or does his secluded life make him unbiased resulting in an honest description of the others? Nick is an honest character he stays loyal to everyone throughout the novel and the characters of the novel rely on him. He may not be honest with the characters but he is honest with the reader

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a fictional novel about a young man’s life , narrated by his closest friend Nick. This young extravagantly wealthy man known as Mr.Gatsby, lived in the 1920’s and represented the american dream in many different ways. In F. Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby” Tom and Daisy were born into this weathiness. Gatsby on the other hand had to work for his money by going to the army. In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald wanted to display the elusiveness of the American Dream and how more money makes the society during this time period lose their morality.

Gatsby’s aspirations reflect the time period. The “Roaring Twenties”, as it is called, was a period of prosperity, and the Americans were obsessed with acquiring wealth, and thought that “those who have wealth should be splendid, happy people”

“People are a product of their environment.” Nowhere else in American literature does this saying seem to ring truer than in The Great Gatsby. Every character seems to represent an aspect of the classic “Jazz Age”, such how the desire for wealth can corrupt the American dream. Despite the decade’s glitzy title, the book’s portrayal of it is anything but flattering; Fitzgerald artfully reveals the hollowness of wealthy society and the fact that the American dream is not achievable for everyone. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the social norms of the 1920’s cause the protagonist, Jay Gatsby, to be obsessed with attaining wealth, leading him to pursue illegal means of earning money, and not being able to stop pursuing Daisy Buchanan despite the fact that he will obviously never obtain her.

Since then, Gatsby became nothing so that he had have to re-plan his future for his dream. Meanwhile, the desire of money becomes more and more intensity in young Gatsby’s heart. It was actually his “American dream” inspired his yearning for money and extremely longing for a better life. However, unfortunately, Gatsby

He grew up in poverty and reached a life of opulence with a huge house, car and servants. With his self acquired wealth and social status he could develop in himself a completely different personality from his unprivileged past. Gatsby who flaunts his money extravagantly as was depicted by his lavish parties represents the wealthy Americans of 1920s. In the beginning of his life, Gatsby could represent American dream because like any other American he nurtured the dream of earning money. Later in life, he differs from the other newly rich Americans in a way that he earned his money in dishonorable ways.

Great Gatsby Character Development Thesis: While money will always be important to our lives, but money alters the way we think and the actions we take. Our surroundings affect who we become because money influence how we think and act. Why did Daisy marry Tom when she clearly loved Gatsby back then? Well she had married Tom because he had money and power, Daisy wanted someone to pay for the lifestyle that she had wanted to have.

Written during the 1920’s, a rich and booming time in American history, The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, offers an alternative meaning to the American Dream. Jay Gatsby, a wealthy, mysterious man, indulges in the finest and most expensive products similar to countless other New Yorkers during the 1920’s. Through the eyes of most, Jay Gatsby is already living the American Dream; however, Gatsby’s true dream revolves around a passionate young woman named

The Great Gatsby is a modern classic of the early twentieth century, a novel which truly captured the luxurious atmosphere of the “Jazz Age.” It is a moniker given to the 1920’s which is suitable, as the spread of wealth led to a decade of glamor and decadence. Among the variations of the novel’s themes, the one moral that is evident and shadows over the rest of the “American Dream,” is the idea that a person of any racial or financial background could start a new life in America and live in riches and wealth. The implementation of the “American Dream” in the novel seems to encircle the character of Jay Gatsby, as his background reveals him having grown up in a poor family of farmers who inhabited North Dakota. The novel portrays how Gatsby

Throughout the previous chapter character development is becoming prominent, and one is Gatsby who we can see is not like the other characters. Comparing Gatsby to other characters greed is not what changed Gatsby like the other characters but the loss of his family “after that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe- Paris, Venice, Rome- trying to forget something very sad,“ (Fitzgerald 65 and 66). He not only tried to drown his sorrows in riches from across the world but he started hosting the biggest and loudest parties in New York. On the contrary to his nightlife, he is always a gentleman with a smile that could end wars. However, there are moments where he is quite mysterious “he looked at his watch, jumped out, ahd hurried