Examples Of Dissatisfaction In The Great Gatsby

Fritzgerald states, “... and walking through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye. Then she wet her lips, and without turning spoke to her husband in a soft coarse voice” (2). Myrtle wants this wealthy lifestyle and it is evident through her concentration on Tom, a man of a wealthy status, even when she is talking to her husband, George. Myrtle does not give him the time of day even though George spends his money to try and improve their life. She married George because she thought he was of wealth because George wore a suit on the day of their wedding, but as soon as Myrtle realized his socio-economic status she soon started having affairs with wealthy men to increase hers. It was unsuccessful and Myrtle still reverted back to George buying her everything she wanted, when in the long run it only hurt them in not being able to pull themselves out of

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses ominous setting and poetic diction to describe the foreboding atmosphere of the passage . The beginning of the text begins as Nick expresses how he couldn’t sleep all night for he could hear “a foghorn groaning incessantly on the sound”. The image created using the verb groaning, followed by the adjective incessantly. Fitzgerald utilized the foreboding sound of a foghorn to foreshadow the death of Gatsby and the foul events to follow that would haunt the narrator. Refusing to abandon the crumbling ideology that he and Daisy will return to their lives in previous years; Gatsby crawls his way up to the wealthy top percent of American society where he pursues a life that has long passed him. The

Myrtle is described as a “faintly stout” woman who “carrie[s] her surplus flesh sensuously”, a woman who in defiance of her class is “continually smoldering”, projecting herself as one leading a superior life, (25). She’s married to a struggling mechanic named George, who despite his unabating love for her, is seen as a “ghost” and someone she can order around as her own personal servant, due to his inability to truly provide for her the way she wants—materialistically. She even goes as far to say George “wasn’t fit to lick my shoe,” further championing a notion of arrogance stemming from her fantasy with Tom

The human condition is the idea of all the questions, concerns, and theories people have on what it takes to be human. The concept of life and death, and everything people have to deal with in between, all count as subjects related to the human condition. It is a wide topic and it is something people have been mulling over for thousands of years. Authors take advantage of the human condition, and all its separate parts, knowing that the characters and situations will always end up being that much more relatable to readers. It is a very smart strategy, and it is one that seems to work time and time again. Out of the stories “The Great Gatsby,” “Everything Stuck to Him,” Everyday Use,” and “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” the overarching

In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Gatz was a man in the 1920’s that learns many life lessons, serves in the war and ultimately finds his way to the top. Jay Gatsby is the man that everybody envies, with big houses, parties and luxury vehicles. The reader sees how the era of the Jazz Age was an age of superficial people, money, and social status. James Gatz creates an alter ego in order to detract from his own inadequacies and create a mythical character to attract the attention of Daisy Buchanan, the only person that matters.

The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an extremely captivating expose of class society in the 1920s. The novel’s main character Jay Gatsby is a tragic figure who finds out the hard way that reality is more complex than one’s initial impressions. Gatsby mortally comes to understand that having fantastic amounts of wealth is not the key to happiness. It is the position of this paper that in the novel The Great Gatsby, there is a conflict between reality and expectation: As the novel progresses, the reader discovers that characters are not all they appear to be and that keeping up appearances can be harmful, even deadly, to one’s own sense of self. This is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great warning to the modern reader.

Myrtle desires wealth and luxuries, and as a result she has an affair with Tom, who gives her anything she yearns for. Myrtle despises her lifestyle with her husband, George Wilson, due to the lower-class living and dirty, physical labor. She explains how, “I married him because I thought he was a gentleman … I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe” (Fitzgerald, 34). Myrtle planned to marry a rich man, so in the future he could support her children and herself, and they would be members of

Robert Frost once said, “Nothing gold can stay”. This idea was clearly elucidated in F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, a novel focused on Jay Gatsby, a famously wealthy young man and his never-changing love for Daisy. Set in the 1920s, the thought of moving west continued to prosper as many Americans hoped to gain wealth and have an opportunity to set their own path to greatness. However, many struggled in achieving their American Dreams and constantly wish for a time when America could revert back to its truest beauty. Gatsby is portrayed as a character who is fixated on his seventeen year old dream to marry the prize of his life. On the other hand, Fitzgerald challenges this and instead proves his view of the reality of America through his style of writing. The reality that nothing in the past can stay but most Americans ignore it, foolishly still believing that what was once innocent and beautiful can exist forever. Therefore, Fitzgerald’s theme that disillusionment had plagued Americans, blinding them from the reality and corruption, is often conveyed through the use of repetition, verbs, and imagery, to prove this point.

Daisy's superficiality extends to her personality. She is fragile, unstable and a confused character. While talking to Nick she said: “...I woke up with an abandoned felling and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'Alright,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful fool” (Fitzgerald 21). They also married their husbands for different reasons. Myrtle says she married George because she thought he was a gentleman. She also thought he knew about good “breeding.” On the other hand, Daisy married Tom because rich girls had to marry into money and good social status.

Myrtle’s wish for a luxurious life is what tempts her into having an affair with Tom, which in turn harms her marriage with George and in the end this decision leads to her losing her

Nick is able to determine that she is playing a facade. She changes the way she looks, speaks and acts to impress those of higher social standings, nevertheless, there are cracks in her image. She cannot properly create the illusion that she is a wealthy woman because Myrtle can never match the elegant demeanour of the upper class. Another method that would grant Myrtle her desires of richness is Tom Buchanan, one of the richest men in New York. By chance, Myrtle and Tom meet on the train and begin an affair. During a day spent at the apartment, she shouts “Daisy! Daisy! Daisy… I’ll say it whenever I want to…”(37). The outburst by Myrtle results in Tom fuming with anger and ultimately the breaking of Myrtle’s nose. Through the lies that Tom feeds her and her own false sense of reality, Myrtle begins to believe that Tom cares for her much more than he does for Daisy. Myrtle, as a result of her delusions, believes that she has the right to mention his wife’s name “whenever [she] want[s]”. Yet, Myrtle is simply the mistress that Tom uses to fulfil his desires. Moreover, when Myrtle goes out of her way to anger Tom, there is a clear sense that she does not understand her place in society. Through the illusion that Myrtle creates, she views herself as a person equal to Tom, that can oppose him and his marriage. Her

She looks at Tom in a different way. She looks at him as someone who can afford to buy their own suit for their own wedding. Myrtle is attracted to not only Tom’s appearance but his money as well. She believes that Tom is the ideal picture perfect man that represents the advertisement of the American Dream. Myrtle is considered to be lower class, as she doesn’t have a lot of money. Myrtle sleeps with Tom to inch her way to an upper class status. People who are upper class are the ones that have money, drive fancy cars, and have nice, big houses. Myrtle isn’t one of those people, but desires to be one of them. This later on causes destruction, and destroys Myrtle. It was later found that Daisy was the one that hit Myrtle with her car which resulted in the death of Myrtle. It is ironic that Daisy was the one that killed her, since Myrtle was having an affair with her husband, Tom. This shows how the desire for a luxurious life and having the American dream, only caused destruction in this novel and destroyed someone life.

Myrtle challenges the role she has in society by having an affair with Tom Buchanan, which is a result of giving into her own sexual desires. She reveals early on in the novel that she is unsatisfied with her spouse, George Wilson, and she gives into her impulses when she gets the chance. Upon the arrival of Tom and Nick at the Wilsons’ household, Myrtle

Throughout the history of the United States, the Americans have felt inspired to work hard and strive for success, until they reach their point of personal satisfaction. This is true for Jay Gatsby, a newly wealthy businessman in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. In the novel, Gatsby, who has achieved the monetary American Dream, is still left unsatisfied despite his wealth because he desires Daisy Buchanan, his long-time love who is now married. Gatsby continually yearns to be with Daisy, so he goes to extremes to attempt to be with her by purchasing a house directly across the bay from hers and trying impress her by flaunting his wealth. Through the character of Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerald reveals that although one should be satisfied with all that they have achieved, they will continue to pursue an unattainable goal without success, no matter the amount of effort.

For more on the topic on Tom and Myrtle keep reading. Tom is supposed to be a loving, supporting, caring husband and father to his wife Daisy and his daughter Pammy. Instead he feels like his mistress is more