Reality And Manipulation In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald displays society’s role in transforming one’s identity by creating complex and realistic characters. Jay Gatsby is a prime example of how one will change themselves to accommodate society. Once a poor son from a farming family, Gatsby puts up an extravagant facade to hopefully win a woman over, however in the process, puts aside morals and values. Fitzgerald demonstrates the importance of social expectations, wealth and the perception of the American Dream are in determining one’s identity.

Faulty Perceptions in The Great Gatsby: Your perception of someone isn’t always true. In the summer of 1922, a man named Jay Gatsby lives in a mansion where he throws huge parties filled with people. He has spent his whole life in love with Daisy Buchanan and he believes that she has waited on him to come back from war. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald shows readers how false perceptions can lead to false realities. The main character, Jay Gatsby, creates a false perception of another, Daisy Buchanan, which creates a false reality of her because Gatsby’s perception of her isn’t true.

In book, “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts how the American was corrupted through wealth. Fitzgerald provides many examples. The most common example shown was Jay Gatsby. Gatsby’s idea that to achieve his American Dream must be to acquire wealth. In order to show this, Fitzgerald uses various literary elements. Two of those being imagery and foreshadowing, these played a critical role in describing the theme, and specific moods to show what was to come and as well as describe the story as a whole. These play a vital role in representing Gatsby’s life and journey to acquiring Daisy, his version of the American Dream.

There are two types of people, those who are consumed by money and those that have a decaying amount. Both of those types of people crave more and more, both reside in either of the two contrasting peninsulas, East Egg and West Egg. The two headlands have numerous amounts of variance with each other in the novel, The Great Gatsby. Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the narrative is set during the 1920’s in New York City, as well as Long Island, and the two peninsulas dubbed “East Egg” and “West Egg.” There is a striking contrast between the two regions, however, not as many similarities. East Egg represents people who are vulgar and crude, who are also the social elite and old money, while West Egg represents good social values and new money. Nonetheless, both areas are equally dissatisfied with their life, always wanting more and more.

How do false illusions and perspectives influence the actions of young adults, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby? Throughout my life, I can look back and reflect on the only thing that is held constant is change. My life has mainly been debating reality, and what’s not reality. Our idea of reality is what shapes us to become who we are as people.

Idealized life’s for most people is always shown as a heaven or a goddess and that you strive to go to, because it shows prosperity and wealth of an individual. Although this maybe true, Fitzgerald the author of The Great Gatsby showed the conflicting opposition of this goal. Proof of these actions can be seen from Gatsby trying to get closer to Daisy, Daisy’s emotions and how they damaged everyone, and how Tom did not care for anyone other than himself and Daisy. All of these factors advocates that people who pursue idealized life’s backwashes into ruination. Every little thing Jay Gatsby has executed after the war has been for one single reason, to someday be able to marry and live happily ever after with Daisy.

In the eye opening novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are many arguments based on society that the author was trying to make through his use of characterization. The dark novel is about love, expectations, disappointments, false hopes, and an overall look on what the narrator, Nick Carraway, experiences in the summer of 1922, spent in the town of West Egg. There were various amounts of arguments about society that were displayed by Fitzgerald throughout many different characters based upon their lifestyles and personality. However, Search for Perfection and Illusion vs. Reality are the two most important arguments about society that Fitzgerald made throughout the characterization of Jay Gatsby.

“There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind appearance.” Said Albert Einstein about the relationship between appearance and reality. Einstein is telling the readers that people are discovering new things that were hidden behind illusions of what had appeared. Humans have to use hat feeling to see threw those appearances to discover the elements that form the reality they live in. Scott Fitzgerald uses the creation of illusive appearance but also writes a discoverable reality for the most of the characters in his novels. In his novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald creates a strong relationship between the illusion of appearance

It is often said that certain literary works and characters within such works represent real-world issues. In the work The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character of Gatsby is shrouded in ambiguity to the reader, providing them with a possibility for personal interpretation. In the work, Gatsby’s character develops from a character representing materialism and a fixation on status to one filled with humility and selflessness for his romantic devotion towards the character of Daisy. Through this shift, the reader is provided with insight in order to draw parallels between Gatsby and two distinct periods in American history. The materialistic side of Gatsby, driven by wealth and his status in Long Island, represents the moral corruption and materialistic desires of America in the 1920s, whereas the romantically devoted Gatsby represents wartime America, devoted to sacrifice and nobility. The contrast within the life of Gatsby allows for a profound insight into the significance of the work as a representation of changing American values.

Reality is the state of being aware, aware of objects, events and time itself but the way people perceive it differs from being to being. If reality was something everyone was able to perceive and agree on one then, maybe there would be an actual definition for the word reality. “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein. Reality is indeed an illusion like Albert Einstein has stated and it is also very persistent because everyday in life one must make one’s own reality due to own reasoning and beliefs. As people face life and traumatic events they warp their reality to comfort themselves. Throughout Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, Flannery O'Connor A Good Man is Hard to Find, William Faulkner A Rose for Emily and F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby, the characters themselves form a reality that only they can perceive, influencing and altering what reality itself is. As the characters in the novels go through events the way that one perceives reality can easily be

In the following excerpt from the book, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and narrated by Nick Carraway, Fitzgerald creates a unique and distinctive contradistinction of Romanticism vs. Reality. Fitzgerald makes it seem as if the characters are living in a dream-like society where everything is an imagined place in which everything is perfect; making it seem akin to paradise. However, when reality kicks in, the characters realize that the imaginative world they had pictured in their mind was anecdotal and non-existing. This is shown in the book during the scene where Daisy invites Gatsby over to her house for lunch and when Gatsby gets there, he finds out Daisy has a daughter. Through the use of direct and indirect characterization, vivid imagery, and direct

The Great Gatsby, a realistic novel gives us a glimpse into the high paced life of the 1920’s. F. Scott Fitzgerald creates life-like situations in the novel to portray the characters as a representation of his own life. Realism in this classic novel, often considered to be one of the greatest works of all time, is evidently shown in the plot, the setting as well as the characters. The story revolves around the romance of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, narrated by a character named Nick Caraway along with many subplots including characters like Jordan Baker, Tom Buchanan and others.

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby provides the reader with a unique outlook on the life of the newly rich. Gatsby is an enigma and a subject of great curiosity, furthermore, he is content with a lot in life until he strives too hard. His obsession with wealth, his lonely life and his delusion allow the reader to sympathize with him.

The world as we know it today is as full of lies as a high school swimming pool has water. Lies permeate the fabric of society like never before. The greatest challenge for the people of the world today is to select and believe what they think the truth can and should be. The world is not the same for any two people. In the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the secrecy and deceit of the characters prompt the question of how truthful the world is that we live in today.

The East and West Eggs of Long Island are isolated not only geographically, being “separated only by a courtesy bay”, but more significantly in the aspect of lifestyle. The East Egg represents old wealth, accommodating people who have been a part of the aristocratic elite for generations, such as Daisy and Tom Buchanan. In contrast, the West Egg is home to the newly rich, including Gatsby, who were born into the working or middle class and attained their wealth through one’s own hard work. The geographic dichotomy physically divides the two social groups, with the barrier of river symbolizing for a vast and irrevocable difference in