Corrupt Men In The Great Gatsby

Gatsby spends his entire life motivating himself to get with another mans wife. He will do anything to “...catch a glimpse of daisy. ”(FSF 64) Also, Jay Gatsby sells alcohol illegally during the time of prohibition. This is how he gets all of his money.

As a society, America has created certain ideas and stereotypes of each class including the citizens within them. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald focuses around the superficial communities of West and East Egg, and their misconceptions of one another. The citizens of East Egg, such as Daisy and Tom Buchanan, frown upon the up-and-coming men of West Egg. This includes Gatsby, who dreams of the riches they take for granted. Gatsby, who obtains his money through dishonest means appears villainous, unsuccessfully attempting to join the wealthy and elite society of East egg. However, there may be more to Gatsby's story. As Nick, the narrator, says he is “worth the whole damn bunch put together”(154). Through his descriptions and comparison of Tom’s house and Gatsby’s house, Fitzgerald reveals the true nature of the two men. While Gatsby appears to be morally corrupt, in the end he actually has pure intentions, instead it is Tom who emits negativity and is ungrateful for his life.

Throughout of the duration of The Great Gatsby, we notice that a large handful of characters in the novel has been corrupted by greed. F. Scott Fitzgerald had portrayed a unique way of showing how money can control people and the society around them. When reading the novel one can come to the conclusion that money, popularity, and having a good reputation had control over Daisy, Tom, Gatsby, and even Nick.

In The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald there is a narrator named Nick Carraway. There is a debate of whether Nick Carraway is trustworthy. Nick Carraway believes these words, “It’s more that he was a German spy during the war” (Fitzgerald 48). Another example of Nick Carraway being dishonest is when he says these words to Daisy, “No, he’s not… It’s a bona fide deal. I happen to know about it” (Fitzgerald 122). On the other hand, there are other thoughts that Nick Carraway is trustworthy. Nick Carraway is a dishonest character because he believes one of the rumors about Gatsby and when Tom was on the phone, he lied for Tom saying he wasn’t talking to his mistress.

Why do some people think that all men are the same? Just because some guys aren’t faithful and considerate doesn’t mean they’re all that way. F. Scott Fitzgerald does a great way of explaining this in the 1925 love novel, The Great Gatsby. The wives of two men in this book will become the reason why the men are the way that they are. These men are George Wilson and Tom Buchanan. Tom is married to Daisy Buchanan but she will go behind his back with Gatsby. Tom will follow with the same actions as Daisy but with George’s wife. George Wilson is married to Myrtle Wilson who will go behind his back with Tom Buchanan. George will remain a good man to his wife throughout the book. These two men are clearly very different. Fitzgerald is explaining the two sides of man by showing the difference between faithful and unfaithful and the different ways that the nature of man expresses anger.

The character Jay Gatsby the argument that money cannot buy bliss. Mr. Gatsby as a very wealthy young man. Gatsby has a massive amount of fortune that he could by anything that he pleased except for one thing in particular, happiness. With this money Gatsby tries win the back the heart of an old lover, Daisy Buchanan. Daisy Buchanan was related to Nick Carraway, who just happened to be neighbors with Gatsby. Jordan, who was a dear friend of Daisy and Nick’s, was talking to Nick about Gatsby lifelong dream she proclaimed, “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (78). Gatsby bought his large luxurious mansion that was located right in front of Daisy in search for her attention. Gatsby had bought that very immense and expensive mansion just to be close

Success, formerly signifying the accomplishment of an aim or purpose, however, it has become poisoned by the narcissism of humankind which redefines it as the state of being financially superior to others. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, the outlook on the American Dream during the 1920s was crafted through a myriad of events and characters depicting this civil dilemma. By definition, the American Dream is the belief that anyone, regardless of race, class, gender, or nationality, can be successful in America (wealthy), if they exert the required effort on their arduous journey. Having said that, the American Dream thus presents an illusion of an American society that neglects issues such as: systemic racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and income inequality. Furthermore, it also postulates a myth of class equality, yet the reality could not be further from this. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates how fantasies driven by materialistic ideologies can lead to inevitable corruption and demoralization in society. Notably, this is exhibited through the daily struggles of George and Myrtle Wilson, the conspicuous bigotry of Tom and Daisy Buchanan as well as the ambition and passion of Jay Gatsby.

New York City, overwhelmed with success, money and image in the 1920s was drowning in corruption. F Scott Fitzgerald composed a riveting novel, The Great Gatsby, which follows the journey of several characters dealing with love, greed, confusion and lust during the 1920s. Fitzgerald illustrates the corruption of the American dream by allowing us to follow the downfall of Jay Gatsby, revealing the reality of the American dream.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is about a writer named Nick Carraway. He leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922 . Nick chases his American Dream and ends up living next door to a mysterious, party-loving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, who is  across the water from his cousin, Daisy and her husband, Tom Buchanan. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald reveals that the upper class society is corrupt from money. This is best proven through Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom.

In Gatsby’s mission to attain wealth, power, and status he loses sight of his morals through his “dealings” with various shady people that are rumored to be lucrative and illegal. The extent of Gatsby’s criminal activities is confirmed by Tom Buchanan one hot summer night when Tom shares that Gatsby and “Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores…and sold grain alcohol over the counter,” (133) an illegal venture during prohibition. In addition to Gatsby’s business investments, his obsession with winning Daisy clouds his mind with thoughts of inspiring her to leave her husband and abandoned her child. Nick believes Gatsby would “want nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you,’” (109) and prove her marriage was a sham.

All Jay Gatsby thinks he has left to do in his life is to win back his one true love, Daisy. He knows that the only way he can achieve this goal is to make more money than Tom, Daisy’s husband. “What Gatsby buys, he buys for a purpose: to win Daisy”

Money has never meant to make people happy in its nature, and the more of it one possesses the more dependent one will be. The Great Gatsby tells a story of Jay Gatsby, mysterious young man, trying to be wealthy to resume the romantic relationship with Daisy Buchanan, his beautiful but spoiled partner before the war. In the book, Gatsby and Daisy represent “new rich” and “old rich” respectively, and Gatsby tries as hard as possible to win Daisy back despite the fact that their perspectives of society and life are far from the same. At the end, Gatsby chooses to sacrifice himself to protect Daisy after she sits Myrtle Wilson, but he is still unable to change Daisy's mind about leaving her husband. Throughout the novel, the author establishes

In the Great Gatsby, the main character Jay Gatsby makes many odd decisions for winning the heart of his former lover, Daisy Bucheanan. Throughout the novel Gatsby hosts exorbitant lavish parties, in order to attract the love of his life. Futhermore, Daisy never showed up as this lead to unnesicary stress to Gatsby. He has anger managment issues, and still wants a superficial perfect loving realtionship with Daisy, even though she is married to Tom. Deep down he knows this is unrealistic, but avoids reality.

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is portrayed as a lovable playboy philanthropist; however, underneath all the money and smiles, Gatsby is no more than a self-serving crook. Gatsby’s social mobility is only one step in his selfish pursuit of his elusive love interest, Daisy Buchanan. The actions associated with Gatsby’s pursuit can be characterized as morally corrupt; however, Gatsby is not a sinister character per se. In order to be with Daisy, Gatsby commits fraud, sells illegal substances, is an accessory to manslaughter, and an adulterer.

The Great Gatsby meticulously portrays the 1920s corruption and pursuit of the American Dream through not only the East Egg lifestyle, but the characters simply existing in that lifestyle. The social novel was published in 1925, at the height of the prohibition era which the story is set. In the years eliciting to prohibition laws being put in place, many “Social reformers blamed alcohol for poverty, health problems, and the neglect by husbands…” (Kyvig). In the eyes of the social reformers, the main reason Americans weren’t living the American Dream was because of the way alcohol affected people. While alcohol was obviously illegal to buy, sell, and consume, the upper class drank regularly. In fact, Jay Gatsby, who hosted gaudy parties daily,