Compare the Great Gatsby and Hamlet

At the beginning of the book Nick sees Gatsby as a mysterious shady man. In the beginning of the chapter Nick somewhat resents Gatsby. In Nick’s opinion Gatsby was the representation of “…everything for

In regards to the expression of love , Gatsby and Nick themselves highlight this worldwide concern by expressing feelings about love. “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can” (Fitzgerald 110). Revealing the extent of Gatsby’s commitment to his dreams, he is sure that the past can be repeated. One of his dreams is to be with Daisy and he worked hard to renovate himself just to get her back. “...And for a moment I thought I loved her but I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires” (Fitzgerald 58). Nick takes things seriously when it comes to being with someone he wants to be with. It is not his intention to flirt with Jordan until he is done with his girl back at home, this shows that Nick is very serious about love.

    Summary: The narrator of The Great Gatsby, Nick starts the novel by describing himself and introducing Gatsby, everything he scorns, but strives to be. Nick moves to the West Egg in New York to work in the bond business. Nick goes to Tom and Daisy’s house for dinner one night. Tom is a friends from college and Daisy is Nick’s cousin. Nick finds out about Tom’s lover, and sees Gatsby reaching off in the distance when he arrives home.

Throughout the novel, Gatsby exhibits his persistent ambition to achieve greatness. Firstly, when describing Gatby’s past, Nick states that Gatsby “sprang from his Platonic conception of himself,” illustrating his high expectations for himself (98). Meeting with Nick for the first time, Gatby’s father mentions that “he knew he

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.

The novel The Great Gatsby is an interesting tale of two cities really. Nick Carraway; the narrator, represents all that is good an wholesome in the great midwest. He is a well-educated man who aspires to be a bond broker. His character is conflicted internally and externally throughout the novel but really culminates into a loathing for all things eastern. Carraway’s farmboy charm and doe-eyed innocence is put to the test when he meets The Great Jay Gatsby. Gatsby represents all things Nick is unfamiliar with and is curious about. Nick, being from the midwest, has no real street smarts so when he meets the “wicked” east, his lack of experience is proof positive that he really does not belong

Nick describes the smile as he would an entire person, demonstrating how he views it—and Gatsby’s facade—as such. Gatsby has designed his artificial character to put others at ease and to put himself in a place of power. As evidenced by Nick’s personifying diction related to his smile and his facade, this effort has been a success.

Nick thought he was going to be some fat, rich old businessman but Gatsby is a young and handsome man who is actually very friendly. Nick first noticed his smile and described it as “a smile of eternal reassurance.”

At the same party, Jordan remarks that Gatsby claims to be an Oxford man, though she does not seem convinced to his claim (53). As a result of all the various rumors, Nick creates an image of Gatsby in his mind as “a florid and corpulent person in his middle years (53).” Contrastingly, Gatsby appears to be around the same age as Nick, which leads to Nick’s failure to recognize Gatsby at the party. The rumors and stories influence the idea of Gatsby that Nick creates in his mind which differs from who Gatsby appears to be.

Gatsby is mostly a very shrouded character in this book, as Nick is always imagining, speculating and talking about Gatsby. There never really is a clear representation of Gatsby, as his character throughout this book is a mysterious presence. This quote is interesting, because Gatsby seems to be longing for something, like the green light that he was reaching for in the end of Chapter 2, but in this quote, it represents Gatsby as a docile, peaceful man. To Nick, it seems like he favours Gatsby very much, almost as a benevolent presence with simply one smile. This quote characterises Gatsby very simply; Gatsby has an aura of being a very self-assured, confident rich man who is very sure of himself. He has built a great but mysterious career, and as a result, earned a lot of money that allows him to throw parties every Saturday for everyone except for himself. Perhaps in this quote the readers can understand that Gatsby is a thoughtful person who is omniscient. As the reader proceeds however, they realise that self-assured Gatsby is simply a facade; the real Gatsby underneath it, is more childish and

Love is an essential part of life. Every individual wants to be loved, and needs someone to love. It is an element that is fundamental to the well-being of all human kind; it is that magic that can heal wounds. However love also has the capacity to traumatize a person if it is extracted from their life. While we all wish to experience love, many of us tend to find the often inevitable detachment to be quite painful. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby's longing for Daisy Buchanan leads him to his own downfall. Similarly in the novel Hamlet, Hamlet's extreme love for his father and his hatred towards his mother play a major role in his tragedy. In these works, there are a number of motivating factors that contribute to the downfall

Nick describes Tom as arrogant with a vibe of thinking he’s superior to everyone else. Just as Nick quickly comes to judge Tom as arrogant, he describes Gatsby as something completely different. “He smiled understandingly... It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.” (48) gives a very positive, hopeful look at Gatsby from the eyes of Nick. In The Great Gatsby, Nick not only denies judging people, but he describes himself as honest as seen in the quote “...I am one of

Throughout history, the media has shown many different sides of love. Weather it be peaceful, violent, dangerous, beautiful, almost all forms of the media have shown love in some way. In the novel The Great Gatsby, love is shown between many different characters in different ways. The reader experiences love at its best and worst. We see relationships flourish, rekindle and end between the different characters. The most controversial relationship is the relationship between Daisy and Tom. Through infidelity, and mistrust, tragedy occurs. Other characters become associated with their marital problems, showing different kinds of love and relationships. In the play Hamlet, the reader also experiences many different kinds of love, ranging from

One thing that surprises me about Nick is that he was loyal to Gatsby who seemed likeable enough but empty inside. He seemed like the picture was more important than the real person. Nick was interested in person and would put himself in a bad light to help a friend. “I didn’t want to go to the city. I wasn’t worth a decent stroke

Although to Nick, Gatsby seems at once completely unoriginal, extremely knowable, being with him, he notes, was "like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines” (Fitzgerald 55). Gatsby, in Nick’s point of view, was disruptive. He is unable to trust Gatsby, for a fear that he would just vanish at the moment in which a promise leans toward its fulfillment.