Disturbing The Universe In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby’s unrequited love for Daisy is evident, as well as George Wilson’s love for his wife, Myrtle. Unlike Gatsby, Wilson is the least important character in the novel due to his important role in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unique plot scheme that led to Gatsby’s murder. However, both characters have similarities and differences the reader is incapable of detecting due to Wilson’s brief mentions in chapter two and seven. Gatsby and Wilson’s love is similar due to their love murdering them both and their affection by remaining loyal to their women, but Gatsby was more ambitious to obtain a wealthy girl like Daisy and Wilson was forcing Myrtle to move west.

“So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight—watching over nothing” (153). Nick explains in this quote how he leaves Gatsby watching over nothing. Gatsby spends his whole life trying to achieve this dream of recreating the past with Daisy. He goes through illegal means to try to accomplish this goal and because he is so focused on doing this, he never realizes that Daisy isn’t worth the pursuit. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, the main protagonist of the novel portrays how people often tend to be blinded by a dream or illusion they have created in their minds which prohibits them from seeing reality. This is shown through the careless characteristics of his former love, Daisy and the way Gatsby cannot see her many flaws or his own when trying to receive Daisy’s love.

We begin our introduction to Gatsby in a fantasy of mansions and money. However, the film 's progression unravels Gatsby’s superficial layer of wealth to reveal a delusional man who has built himself on a futile dream. Together we will explore the religious and sociological views upon Gatsby’s failure as dictated by McLennan (2014) and Islam (2014).

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 many of his best books came from the idea that women & men relationships is just a game with one person ending up being a winner. He claimed to forever have a jazz-age attitude that would stick with him for life, and it worked. F. Scott Fitzgerald died December 21, 1940 at the young age of 44.

F. Scott Fitzgerald uses his life experience in his works. He explains, ‘that was always my experience-- a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy 's school; a poor boy in a rich man 's club… However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has coloured my entire life and works.’ The short story of Winter Dreams was written around the same time that Fitzgerald was developing ideas for The Great Gatsby. Whilst this wasn’t published until 1925, Winter Dreams débuted in 1922 and the similarities between the novel and short story were intentional. Winter Dreams became a short draft, which Fitzgerald based The Great Gatsby on. Both resemble Fitzgerald’s real life; although both were written before most of the comparable events occurred. Preceding this, The Jelly Bean, a short story from Fitzgerald’s Tales of the Jazz Age (published in 1922) invited the reader to follow Jim Powell through his dreams of social advancement and love, which parallel Fitzgerald’s later stories and life experiences. In addition, Fitzgerald’s The Rich Boy, a short story published in 1926 in All the Sad Young Men suggests that the author’s life experiences shaped his work up to and even after The Great Gatsby, which is considered to be Fitzgerald’s greatest work.

Due to Gatsby 's perception of the world and what he believes to be the right thing to do he undergoes physical and psychological changes, the people surrounding him also change their opinions on Gatsby due to his endeavours. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s intent with the construction of “The Great Gatsby” is to bring to light the complications viewed in believing and putting forth goals and values over concrete realities. Nick Carraway 's observations of Gatsby and his life show this. From Nick’s perspective, Gatsby is ceaselessly chasing a person who only exists in Gatsby’s mind contrasting from the Daisy existing in Nick’s mind. Fitzgerald also outlines how the opinions pertaining to truth and existence vary among people and how depending on one individual’s opinion other opinions can clash and create negative views. The world that exists for Gatsby competes with the world observed by others, such as Nick, Daisy, Tom, and Jordan. Because Gatsby’s world is largely different than other people’s the interpretation of Gatsby becomes a madman with crazy ambitions and unattainable goals, this creates negative opinions on Gatsby even though for Gatsby he is going after what he loves and does not mind the heartache that comes along with it. Fitzgerald’s novel outlines the judgment held by society and how people tend to try and dictate how another person should live their

F. Scott Fitzgerald was accurate in his portrayal of the aristocratic flamboyancy and indifference of the 1920s. In his novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald explores many aspects of indifference and flamboyancy. A large influence on this society was the pursuit of the American Dream. Gangsters played a heavily influential role in the new money aristocracy of the 1920s. The indifference was mainly due to the advent of Prohibition in 1920. One major societal revolution in this period was that of the “new women,” who expressed new actions and beliefs. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald accurately portrayed his characters Nick Carraway, Daisy and Tom Buchanan, and the novel’s eponym, Jay Gatsby,

The 1920’s embodied a people who strove for wealth with complete disregard to the moral disgraces committed in the process of becoming rich. F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby portrays the general feeling of the 1920’s through complex characters such as Jay Gatsby, Tom and Daisy Buchanan, and Nick Carraway. Fitzgerald uses symbols such as the billboard, the green light, and the valley of ashes to convey themes and propel the plot forward.

Struggling with the separation of reality and an illusion, the characters in The Great Gatsby lived lives of deceit, which were not all as fabulous as they may have appeared. Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, and Jordan Baker were just a few examples of people, who were seemingly flawless and content, but truly they were lost, chasing after a dream they could never grasp.

How would you feel being in a part of a love story that you know can’t end well for one of your friends. You love your friends and you don’t want to see anyone get hurt, but you also don’t stop them from making foolish choices. This is the conflict the narrator of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carroway will soon find himself in the middle of. Nick Carroway opens Chapter 1 with a quote from his father. His father says, “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone… just remember that all people in this world haven’t been given had the advantages that you’ve had.” The narrator uses this quote to foreshadow the conflicts that will occur between him and other characters throughout the book.

Nick Caraway, from F. Scott’s Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, once found himself “. . . standing beside [Mr. McKee’s] bed and [Mr. McKee] was sitting up between the sheets, clad in his underwear, with a great portfolio in his hands” (Fitzgerald 38). Nick’s thoughts and actions in this odd circumstance spark numerous questions on his sexuality. While Fitzgerald uses covert implications to support the idea Nick is a homosexual, he also preserves plausible deniability that perhaps the scene was just a drunken hallucination. Yet it has been speculated that, due to the time period, Nick was forced to hide his desires through interactions with the “feminine man” (Fitzgerald 30), Mr. McKee or the masculine woman, Ms. Jordan Baker. Similarly, other literary figures have been caught between societal expectations of proper behavior and their own definitions of true happiness. Other characters that have faced this choice are French diplomat Rene Gallimard and opera singer Song Liling from David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly. Based loosely on true events, the play chronicles Gallimard’s doomed love story with Song, who is actually a male spy for Communist China. For twenty years, Gallimard claims he did not know of Song’s gender, yet Hwang’s covert implications support the idea both Gallimard and Song were homosexuals who had to hide their preferences in order to survive in their respective societies. Gallimard’s latent homosexuality manifests itself in the symbol of his prison cell while

F. Scott Fitzgerald presents a scathing critique of upper class privilege in The Great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby’s library in particular, illustrates his fundamental misunderstanding of the self-perpetuating class society in 1920s America. It is a novel about surveillance: the ruling class constantly monitors the system; Gatsby is identified as the usurping “Other” who threatens their status, and must be put back in his rightful place.

Gatsby does not belong to his own class and he is not accepted by the upper class, therefore he becomes an exception. Because of disappointment of being looked down upon and impossibility of accept by the upper class, he has nothing left except his love, which is also his “love dream”. Gatsby’s love for Daisy has been the sole drive and motive of his living. Gatsby’s great love is also the root of his great tragedy, because he is desperately in love with a woman who is not worthy of his deep love. Fitzgerald offers Gatsby with the spirit of sincerity, generosity, nobility, perseverance, and loyalty. All his good natures can be seen

What is intertextuality? Intertextuality is a word that introduced by Julia Kristeva, a philosopher, literary critic, feminist and a novelist. Kristeva defined Intertextuality as a “mosaic of quotation”, which means that all texts that are derived from the natural process and transformation of other type of content (Martin, 2011). It is also called referencing an original idea that has previously been produced. In essence, it is to take an original work of art and turn it into a whole new idea or artistic style. The following essay will explore of how intertextuality is used in Baz Lurhmann’s “The Great Gatsby”.

An Austrian physician by the name of Sigmund Freud, a well renowned psychologist, aside from his studies, was once rumored do have done enough cocaine to kill a baby horse. Other than his cocaine addiction he also developed the theory of Psychoanalysis, which in short means that he studied the longstanding difficulties in the ways that people think and feel about themselves, the world, and their relationships with others. Sigmund Freud’s ideals of psychoanalysis was translated to in a way where we are able to analyze media in all it’s shapes and forms. Psychoanalytic media analysis argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the characters within a movie, and the literary work is a manifestation of the Id, Super-Ego, and Ego. The text that I will analyze using the psychoanalytic media theory will be the film The Great Gatsby, originally a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I will be using Freud’s primary psychoanalytic theory of the ID, Ego, and Super-Ego to analyze the movie The Great Gatsby, and also analyze the potential cultural and societal impacts of an authors use of psychoanalytic theory.