Consequences In The Great Gatsby

True love is seen through a relationship of two people. Love exists when two people give all their trust, loyalty, and support to one another. Now imagine finding out all of the love and loyalty was false? Betraying a loved one can make someone capable of things they didn’t even know they were capable of. Betrayal is the breaking of a trust that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals. In The Great Gatsby, characters pursue in the action of having an affair and the result of betraying their loved ones. In the book, The Great Gatsby, the concept of true love is portrayed in a way that negatively affects the characters.

While most people chase love, few know that it is foolish. One should not chase after love, but allow it to find them naturally. Obviously, Gatsby was none the wiser about that bit of advice. In the story, we see Gatsby chase after his supposedly long lost love, but is she truly his love? With how little time they spent together, how much they’ve grown throughout the years, and all that has happened in both of their lives, does Gatsby truly love Daisy, a married mother of one? Their star-crossed story is the perfect example of a hold on the past destroying a future. This essay will explore their strange and twisted romance while supporting one simple fact. Jay Gatsby was not in love with Daisy.

“The trick is always to appear fixed, whatever happens. To hold the pattern we were born to, though its significance may be lost to us” (Glenday 49). In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, fate is explored with its connection to social classes, specific characters, and how these fates stick with these characters throughout the course of their lives. The higher class portrays a more lively, yet insensitive and careless fate in the novel. The working class carries the weight of the higher class, although their contributions come unrecognized to the wealthy. When Jay Gatsby attempts to transition to the upper class, his working class fate made him fail to adapt to the life of the higher society. The role of the car displays a translation

The plot of The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is driven by Jay Gatsby's

James Gatz, a character in conflict with society due to the shortcomings he suffers throughout his life must, therefore, resort to illusions to cope. Jay Gatsby, was a poor youth from North Dakota who could never accept the fate that he was given in life. He never had enough money to marry the woman he loved and was forced to pay for his college by working as a janitor. As a result of all the defeats and drawbacks that Gatsby suffered through during his youth, he began to despise the life that he lived. Jay Gatsby was a man that “defie[d] oppressive society by trying to conform to it.” (Hemis, 2010). Gatsby desires nothing more than to oppose the life society has offered him by becoming a man that contradicts everything he was during his youth. Wealth, power, respect are what Gatsby pines for and one day he is given the chance to begin again. To escape from the lack of wealth that James Gatz was given in life, he creates the persona of Jay Gatsby. Recalling Gatsby’s transformation, Nick informs “he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to the conception he was faithful to the end” (98). It is important to understand that the colossal illusion that Gatsby creates in his youth never fades and the rest of his decisions in life all stem from the one illusion. The fantasy he conceives causes him to believe that he is beyond society’s laws and is able to bend them to his liking. Gaining a false sense of power from the

Superheroes will not always save the day and believing in these figures will end in disaster. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway moves to East Egg near New York City to follow some fantastic dream of making it big. Nick meets him mentor and idol, Jay

1. Fitzgerald achieves a melancholy mood in the beginning of the chapter by using sorrowful and negative word choices to describe events. In the first paragraph we learn about Nick's challenging night and how "I tossed half-sick between grotesque reality and savage, frightening dreams" (Fitzgerald, pg. 154). Introducing a new chapter with such saddening descriptions is done to make the readers continue reading with a more negative outlook. Even in the next few paragraphs Gatsby's actions are pitiful and naïve, and it makes the reader sad to see him so blind when they know more of what is going on than he does.

After reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, I was able to gather a small playlist of songs that can relate to the book. The lyrics in these songs relate to scenes, symbols, and different characters in the book.

Although Gatsby’s actions in the past helped him to achieve the wealth and status he always dreamed of, the past also prevents him from living the true potential of the “American Dream”. As Gatsby becomes more infatuated with his rising status and wealth, he becomes more concerned about his past. In result, he starts to lie about his upbringing and produces pieces of “evidence” to support his claims. In response to Nick’s incredulity, “he reached in his pocket, and a piece of metal, slung on a ribbon, fell into my palm” (66). Gatsby’s lies prevent him from establishing real bonds with people of his caliber. People only know Gatsby by the lavish parties he throws. However, most of the guests don’t know Gatsby, leading to rumors of his “mysterious”

Although the timeline is kept vague in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald makes it clear that his work of art is based in the early 1920’s between World War I and the Prohibition. This was a transitional period in the United States. America changed after the war and as a result, so did life. The idea of the perfect life fluctuated as troops began flooding back to the United States, migrating to cities, picking up jobs, and buying houses for their new or planned families. The economy was booming, jazz became the new popular music, woman (more commonly referred to as “flappers”) and men were expressing their freedom by having parties and hanging out in clubs or bars, Henry Ford just introduced the Model-T which made automobiles

In The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald implies that wealth can have some complications in life. Even though it can provide many privileges to the world without having to face consequences. Fitzgerald uses the characters to represent their level of class, and how they showcased it.

Daisy is attempting to keep her relationship with Gatsby covered, and when Tom catches wind of their affair, he is enraged. Gatsby is adamant about telling Tom, and Daisy agrees to do so, but neither of them consider the consequences. Once exposed, Daisy and Gatsby have to chose what the next steps are going to

The Roaring ‘20’s, as it was called, was full of leisure, prosperity, and change. The economy was booming, and it was the middle of the prohibition era. Women were gaining more freedom as expressed by Flappers and their right to finally vote. Issues of the 1920s are represented in The Great Gatsby, such as the presence of free-willed women, alcohol, and the mafia. The mob was a large part of 1920s society, as was Prohibition.

The Great Gatsby is full of amazingly complex characters that left me wondering in the end if it was even possible to root for any of them, or wish them well. On a positive note, for part of the novel all that is revealed about Gatsby is that he embodies the “American Dream”; his rags-to-riches upbringing was surely meant to persuade the reader into loving Gatsby. This novel was also published in 1926- only three years before the start of the Great Depression- but it was obviously meant to encourage people, as well as Fitzgerald himself, in a time where things were about to take a turn for the worst. Although this may be true, Gatsby did have a darker side to him as the last few chapters proved. I was convinced that after Jay took a turn for

On one fine evening, on the urban land, where the icy wind blast around the figures, Gatsby’s place was flooded by flocks of guests. There he detect his sight on a girl, known to be Gatsby’s ex-girlfriend, Daisy was mesmerized by Gatsby house. “That huge place there? she cried pointing.“ (Fitzgerald ,90). Daisy was shocked and her eyes were satisfied towards Gatsby newfound wealth. She was emotionally breaks down after she spot on the evidence of Gatsby newly wealth. Although, Gatsby knew Daisy betrayed him, he was totally blindfolded due to his greed. His eyes were dragging him towards her. Although, he may do what as his desire triggered, he lost his considerations towards other side as well as on his own. Gatsby’s