F. Scott Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby

Nick is a “prominent, well-to-do” character who at the the beginning of the novel during the summer attends rich parties with his wealthy friends demonstrating the attraction of money and the consumption over the mind. The obsession with wealth is later developed as Nick apprehends the burden it enacts in the wealthy's lives. This reveals the bogus persona that Nick falls for at the start because he believed that the rich “were rather honest, straightforward...people” but realizes that “their lives ha[d] been developed for wealth.” Nick when he first

Nick was raised in wealth and understands the relative comfort and leverage it provides. He recalls how his father told him, “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (1). Nick recognizes his privilege because of his father’s admonition. Furthermore, he assesses individuals apart from their situation because he is aware of his privilege relative to others’. In combination with his belief in his own honesty, he therefore maintains accountability because he is impartial about his privilege and does not justify his mistakes by self-exculpating with the aid of his privilege, unlike Daisy and Tom Buchanan. The Buchanans live in affluence seeking their whims: Jay Gatsby for Daisy and Myrtle Wilson for Tom. He decries the Buchanans’ money-begotten recklessness, explaining that “Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money” (179). Nick views Tom - in cheating with Myrtle, assaulting her, and hollowly apologizing to Daisy for cheating with Myrtle - and Daisy - in depending upon men, manslaughtering Myrtle, and deplorably fleeing the crime - as misguided users of privilege and hopelessly careless as a

Jay Gatsby is scrutinized over and over for his role in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. His actions and character traits result in his character being deeply investigated by many literary scholars and critics worldwide. To the reader, Gatsby is a somewhat mysterious man for most of the novel. Other characters discuss Gatsby and speculate about how he became wealthy until Fitzgerald reveals towards the end of the novel that Gatsby is a crook and makes all of his money as a part of Meyer Wolfsheim’s illegal operations. This fact, however, does not explain all of Gatsby’s mysterious traits. Gatsby’s traits result from his idealistic hope. Gatsby is such a hopeful man and has such idealistic views for his future that it leads him

As World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II were occurring, America was in a time of uncertainty and questioning. Therefore, in following with the feeling of the American people, American writers often followed this theme of confusion in their writing, creating the age of Modernism. During the time period of Modernism, writers often included the themes of uncertainty, disjointedness, and disillusionment in their works. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, these three themes of uncertainty, disjointedness, and disillusionment are portrayed through three main characters Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby, respectively.

The world is always in motion. All aspects of life are constantly changing, reforming, and developing. The American Dream has evolved greatly since the actual term was formulated in 1931 by James Truslow Adams. He proposed the American Dream was “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller”. But F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is based on an entirely different American Dream, one that is constructed upon the basis of notions of great success and economic achievement. The American Dream is a series of ideas built on trials of reaching perfection. These economic trials all have an origin in common: they each evolve from dreams. Dreams that spark thoughts of evolution or development, inventive hopes that serve as roots for methods for attaining this insurmountable ideal. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby offers the reader a view into the window of the past in attempts to understand the endeavors aimed towards grasping the American Dream. These processes involved dreams that were capacious yet solitary, dreams that were unvarying yet everlasting, and dreams that were deceased yet somehow, still existed.

In Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, there are numerous themes, resonating ideas, and patterns that occur, but none are as crucial to understanding Fitzgerald’s character Gatsby and the overall story than Fitzgerald’s portrayal of the dying American Dream. Before exploring the American Dream within the context of the text, readers should consider the changing concept of defining ‘the American Dream. While there are several interpretations of the American Dream, the one that is continuously presented throughout the text is best portrayed by Gatsby himself when he states, “My life, old sport, my life my life has got to be like this. It 's got to keep going up.” The American Dream, as contextualized by Fitzgerald, is illustrated as a chase or a race from poverty or state of discomfort to a state in which individuals achieve elite, often materialistic goals. Fitzgerald demonstrates this chase for success throughout his text and uses his characters as vehicles to portray civil society’s idealized conception of The Dream, while simultaneously critiquing the concept of his perception of the ridiculousness of living only for the purpose of obtaining the Dream’s expected riches. Moreover, Fitzgerald’s varied uses of the American Dream is an effective literary technique to not only critique overt materialism, corruption, greed, elitism, and the Roaring 1920s society, but also aim to illustrate a subliminal message to American society about the negative aspects of the Dream as well

Early on in the novel it becomes clearly apparent that wealth is going to be a major proponent in the story. As Nick introduces himself he also introduces the lifestyle that he leads. He details that he was born into a family of wealth, and that he attended an Ivy League college. The wealth that Nick had made him able to become closer to Daisy and Tom. Gatsby saw this connection that Nick had to Daisy which

SparkNote on The Great Gatsby is a complete outline and analysis on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It offers an analysis on every character and an explanation of the fundamental topics, motifs and symbol offer in this exceptional novel. Spark notes examines Gatsby’s character accentuating what I think is the defining moment in Gatsby’s road to wealth, “working for a millionaire made him dedicate his life to the achievement of wealth”

The American Dream is defined as the idea of working for the necessities in life: a house that is capable of housing a family, a loving family, and a job that supplies these necessities. This idea also consists of living in a society that is not restricted by social classes and allowing people of the society to have freedom to choose where they belong. The American Dream was and still could be the main focus of people who are going out on their own to create a family. However, F. Scott Fitzgerald took a different route in his most famous novel. Fitzgerald uses his book, The Great Gatsby, to show how the idea of the American Dream is slowly dying in the society he created.

Nick is carried away (pun intended) by the fun, fast-paced lifestyle of the rich and powerful in New York City. He is going along with the lavish lifestyle that his friends are providing him. Nick is building dreams with the perception of what his friends are providing him, a name, a reputation. Nick thought that wealth was a great thing to have until after he had found out about the fatal car crash that killed Myrtle Wilson. Nick realized that night after the car crash that wealth corrupts people. The wealthy hide behind their status and money believing that they are untouchable, this belief makes them think that there are no

“Life is essentially a cheat, and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming features are not those of happiness and pleasure, but the deeper satisfactions that come out of a struggle.”

First, Nick was an honorable man who lived on the West Egg. His housing was called an “eyesore”, besides the fact of it being small. By the way, it was described, anyone could imagine it clearly. An example that was stated in the novel was “it offers him the consoling proximity of millionaires". Showing us how his living conditions were made better by his housing surroundings. Nick’s social position seemed to be more of a merging high class with the traits of the bourgeois class. Even though he was portrayed as a bystander who never judged, he was trusty and was always down to earth and practical. His house, in a way, reflected how it wasn’t something eye-catching, but it blended in just like him. To take a deeper look into Nick, we learned that by the end of this novel he picked up what misery fortune can bring.

He says of himself “I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” (p.49,

In chapter one Nick, the narrator, Talks about how his dad told him to reserve judging other people because they didn't have the same advantages that he had. He also describes he just moved to a part of long island called West Egg and got a job as a bondsman. West Egg is known for the people who lived there who worked for their money, while in East Egg everyone was gifted their money or born with it. Nick moved into a little bungalow next to Mr. Gatsby.

Nick Carraway in one of the main characters and narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby. Nick has grown up appreciative living the life style he was born into, knowing that others didn’t have the wealth or opportunities he has had. Nick also feels the need to recline any judgments on other people. Nick was cut off from his family’s wealth so he would have to learn what it’s like to make his own money. Nick then made a living becoming a rather successful bondsman. Nick then moves to New York, specifically to the West Egg, to further study how the bonds system works.