Essay On The Great Gatsby

In the book “The Great Gatsby” there is many things that people say made Gatsby a great or a not so much of a great person. Gatsby was a great man because he became someone with almost everything anybody could and would want but grew up from with nothing, He made all this money from working jobs that were not so great and people envied him for it even though they did not know what he did, and he was just a very mysterious and many people found that very intriguing about him. person For people that didn’t know who he was when he was younger, they all expect him to be old money and get the money from his parents, but as we learn he made his money by working, good or bad jobs he still made money and he was successful and he was proud of it.

Nick is a dynamic character. Starts to leave his values behind, temporarily and in one instance, he gets drunk for the second time in his life “… either it was terrible stuff of the whiskey distorted things, because it didn’t make any sense to me” (29). Only has gotten drunk twice in his life, and the reader can come to the conclusion that the whole scene at Myrtle's party is skewed. "Instead of being the warm center of the world, the middle west now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe" (3). Gatsby's Influence The title of the story is The Great Gatsby Is Fitzgerald being ironic about how "great" Gatsby is or is it to emphasize how great Nick thinks he is? Nick thinks Gatsby is admirable and see that he is driven by love to achieve his dream. He finds that praise-worthy and thinks its an honorable dream. He believe he truly is a good person. Thinks Gatsby is an unfortunate victim to the Easts eccentric ways but is respectable. In the end he sides with Gatsby. It sets up his biases. He hears rumors that Gatsby is a "spy" and "killed a man" (48). He had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person" (48). Time vs. Opinions His outlook gradually alters towards corruption as “the events of three nights several weeks apart” took effect on his writing and he found that they ” gave the impression that… they were all that absorbed” him (55). He has been focusing on one event and giving it great importance. He was partially opinionated

When Nick is describing Gatsby he uses this bold comparison between Gatsby and Jesus Christ to illuminate what Gatsby has created himself to be. Jesus is described to be “faithful to his self-created dream but scornful of the factual truth that finally crushes him and his dream”—an appropriate description of Gatsby. Though the comparison between Gatsby and Jesus is not an important event in The Great Gatsby, it is nonetheless a suggestive comparison, as Gatsby transforms himself into the image that he envisioned for himself as a youngster and remains committed to that idea, despite the obstacles that society presents to the

Gatsby becomes a legend among his party guests with a host of rumors questioning his true identity. Discovering his mystery becomes more important to them than living their own lives. Whispers of “‘I’ll bet he killed a man’” and theories about his occupation and upbringing float through his parties as his guests wonder whom their host truly is and gradually forget to care about themselves (Fitzgerald 44). Even when Gatsby is rumored to have “killed a man”, the dead man is unimportant. He is given no name or real identity and the gossipers care not for the tragedy of his death, but for the scandal of Gatsby’s crime. Gatsby’s charm soon affects narrator Nick Carraway as well. Gatsby’s smile hypnotizes Nick with its “quality of eternal reassurance”, the way it regards the “external world” momentarily before returning to Nick “with an irresistible prejudice in [his] favor” (48). That smile reassures Nick that he matters, but only so long as Gatsby cares about him. Gatsby’s attention validates Nick’s entire existence, thus invalidating Nick’s existence without it. Because of his disregard for other people, Gatsby thoughtlessly consumes the individualism of everyone he encounters until they hunger for his validation.

From the beginning of the book, Nick can be seen observing people/events and not intervening. At the end of chapter 1 Nick watches Gatsby stretch out his arms to the green light on Daisy’s dock. Nick thinks to call out to Gatsby, yet stops himself, thinking Gatsby rather be alone (Fitzgerald 20-1). “‘I decided to call to him,’” Nick writes, “‘But I didn’t call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone’” (Fitzgerald 20). In his head, Nick thinks to contact, “call to” Gatsby. Yet, as a Deist God may believe people are content to be alone, Nick comes to that conclusion. Like the Deist God, Nick remains uninvolved in Gatsby’s moment alone, and instead just watches him. Regarding the light Gatsby reaches to, it coincides with the idea of Nick as godlike. God is often associated with light, or as light. “God is light; in him there is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). Nick being present to watch over Gatsby as Gatsby views the light suggests godliness. Nick is also arguably the morally best character in The Great Gatsby. While he may seem as if he is just a witness from time to time, he is not involved in the sins of his friends. Due to Nick’s good moral character and association with light, his godliness is further

Nick seems compassionate when he said that Jay invented the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would invent (Fitzgerald 104). I think it would have to be a desperate and miserable seventeen year old boy to invent a person and take on that new identity. Nick supports me on this idea when he says: "But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot" (Fitzgerald, 105). Nick goes on to say that Gatsby's thoughts of him himself haunted him in bed at night. The dreams Gatsby had were a beautiful hint of the unreality of reality they were "a promise that the rock of the world was found securely on a fairy's wing" (Fitzgerald 105).

This response intrigues Nick’s interest in Gatsby, helping the mythical like legend of Gatsby develop from the very beginning of the novel. This encounter is integral to the story, not only for Nick, but for the reader as well. By Ms. Baker telling Nick that he “must” know the host of the party, Nick becomes fixated on discovering who this man is, and the reader is left wondering who could this mysterious man be. This curiosity of discovering the man named Gatsby is the basis of Nick’s continued interest and relationship with the protagonist throughout the novel. Nick is cut out to be an unreliable narrator in the telling of the story, for in the beginning of the novel, Nick states himself as one who has the ability to reserve judgement. As the story develops, Nick will eventually come to pass judgement not only on Gatsby, but all of the other major characters as well. Fitzgerald constructs Nick’s character in this manner, giving a higher value to what Nick says, along with what he thinks. This is done because, as the moral center of the entire novel, Nick is the only character who is outside looking in, the only one who is not accustomed to this fast life. By adding a higher value onto what Nick says and thinks, Fitzgerald has further developed Gatsby, and his mythical like aura. Throughout the novel, Nick does quite the opposite of praise and glorify Gatsby, but no matter the circumstance, Nick always comes

Nick meets Gatsby by accident when he starts talking to someone who seems to be a regular partygoer. When Gatsby reveals who he is and smiles, Nick remarks that Gatsby’s smile held a “quality of eternal reassurance” (48). Nick finds an amazing compassion in Gatsby that he has never seen before. He believes there is “something gorgeous” in Gatsby’s composition that makes him untouchable and magical (2). This first look at Gatsby convinces Nick immediately that he is interesting and kind enough to build a connection

He was a son of God...” (98). Gatsby had been an idealistic individual from a young age, but his ideals were also his motive. He embodied whatever ideal or vision he had for himself, therefore creating his own identity. Because Gatsby had the potential to morph into the new person which suited his ideals, he proved to be an exceptionally unique individual who differs from the average man. Also, the prominent comparison between Gatsby and Jesus Christ further illuminates the true greatness of Gatsby. Regardless of one’s beliefs, it is difficult to deny the influence of such powerful religious figures, such as Christ himself or even Gatsby’s. Gatsby’s ability to create his own identity similar to Christ, who made himself the son of God, is very significant to give a better understanding of Gatsby’s extraordinary stature. It is also evocatively mentioned by the narrator that Gatsby had “something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life...” (2) Gatsby had heightened hopes and desire for everything life had to offer him and he seized every opportunity which presented itself. This realization of life’s promises is what kept him alert and focused on what he expected out of his future. Being keen and eager proved to have its positive outcomes; for James Gatz became the great Gatsby.

Amidst the exceedingly prosperous decade of the 1920’s, traditional American lifestyles and principles were interjected by the new superficial and materialistic beliefs closely associated with “The Roaring Twenties.” Undoubtedly, the 1920’s were a decade of change.

The character of Gatsby has a religious entity that brings him closer to the vision of the Son of God. “The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end” (Fitzgerald 104). Gatsby is the “American Adam” throughout the novel. He acts as the biblical Adam while fulfilling the spot of the American dream. Gatsby is described as having “a heightened sensitivity to the promises of life” (Fitzgerald 6). Like the Son of God, Jesus Christ, he has promises for the coming life in order to live out his greatness apart from his own senses. Gatsby brings life to the others around him, bringing out the best in people, giving the rare smile of admiration; nevertheless he is the incarnating God (Mellard 12). Nick describes Gatsby when watching him upon first meeting as "he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I

F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the narrator, Nick, to describe the Great Gatsby in the beginning of the book The Great Gatsby. Nick described his first encounter with the Great Gatsby and portrayed him to be just as great as his name implies. “He smiled understandingly - much more than 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. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor” (Fitzgerald 48).

Throughout reading, and watching the movie Great Gatsby, we have been introduced to a variety of characters and setting in which these character express many traits about themselves. Even though these characters express their feelings towards one another it may only happen in a selection of settings. Each of these things together differ between the novel and the movie. Throughout the novel and movie we meet Nick who in the book provides a smart, tolerant, caring, and flawed persona.

in the novel " the great Gatsby", different elements have been settled to maintain an image of the American Dream . Nick Carraway had named his book on Gatsby , a white American citizen who had made himself a position in the American society during the beginning of the twentieth century. Gatsby , a man in his thirteen , create himself in order to fit to the upper class in the new American age , after the shifting from the rural life that dominate the American sphere into the modern life , a metropolis one. however, the cast and the swamp had took their side in the leisure side, the east egg in new York city , a suburb . Gatsby , the new rich figure , in attempt to catch up with the cast, went on in creating himself , into a middle class cast

And then, a bold English naturalist and geologist dares disturb the peace by publishing a 502-page piece of scientific literature that introduces us to the scientific theory of evolution through natural selection. The culprit’s name is Charles Darwin, the book in question is titled On The Origin of Species, and some people see this as an attempt at proving that God does not exist.