Great Gatsby Reflection

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is primarily a social commentary on the state of American society during the post-war period of unprecedented affluence and prosperity.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, is the story of the idiosyncratic millionaire Jay Gatsby. It is narrated by Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner from Long Island who later moves to Manhattan. Gatsby’s life is organized around one desire, Daisy, the woman he loved. This desire leads him on an expedition from poverty to wealth, reuniting with his old love, and his eventual death. In his novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald is able to portray the American Dream where people seek out self-gratification and pleasure. He captures the romance of the roaring twenties with the cars, money, illegal alcohol and the wildest parties one could imagine. Much like the character, Jay Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), wasn’t born into the upper class. While Gatsby is from the lower class, Fitzgerald from the middle class, both end up becoming exceptionally rich, fall into the wildest and reckless life, and use their fortunes to win the love and approval of the women they once loved.

Jay Gatsby, taken in by a bittersweet fruit, drags himself through filth. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby becomes wealthy to achieve his American Dream, but he fails to achieve it because of the corruption and disillusioning effects of materialistic society.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby focuses on the excitement and adventure of the roaring twenties, a time filled with great economic success and parties said to last the whole decade. New to Long Island and New York, aspiring bond man Nick Carraway becomes infatuated with the lifestyle of his rich peers living the “American dream”. He gains interest in his mysterious neighbor Jay Gatsby, who lives in an incredible mansion and has a vast amount of wealth. Gatsby uses his money to try and steal his love, Daisy Buchanan from her unfaithful husband, Tom. Characters in The Great Gatsby are unhappy and unfulfilled with their lives due to greed manipulating their view of The American Dream. This skewed perception also affects their unreasonable life expectations and their narcissistic thoughts create a larger potential for failure, such as Gatsby’s extravagant plan to steal Daisy Buchanan.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel that portrays the events in the 1920s with a significant complexity, which allows the reader to evaluate the priorities and behaviour of the people during the World War I, the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression, and comprehend the past events better. One of the major themes in the novel - the Shallowness of the Upper Classes - highlights almost every flaw the wealthy people have. Even though the novel mostly revolves around the four main characters: Gatsby, Nick, Tom and Daisy, the minor characters, who appear on just several pages of the book, still play an important part, as they help the theme, and the characters themselves, to develop even further.

The difference in the interactions Nick and Gatsby have with Tom Buchanan show the difference in their perspectives on wealth. Nick is a friend of Tom. He visits Tom and Daisy at their home, and Tom trusts him enough to invite him to the small, intimate, gathering with only his mistress and the McKees. Nick doesn’t like to spend time with Tom; he says as they drive through the city “Hold on… I have to leave you here” (28). He didn’t have any particular reason to go, but he simply could not stand being with Tom in that car for any longer. His reaction to the party in Tom’s apartment is similar. He “wanted to get out” (35), but something restrained him. He wants to leave, but he is “within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled” (35) but Tom’s party. Gatsby’s reaction however, is different. He doesn’t entertain Tom or even try to engage with him. Nick speaks briefly to Tom then looks over to Gatsby and he’s simply “no longer there” (74). Gatsby and Tom are superficially similar. They both

The Great Gatsby has been around for ages; it is a story of a young man in the 1920’s who is thrown into a new world made up of the new and the old rich. He is confused by the way these people act and in the end cannot stay another minute in this strange, insensitive, materialistic world. The author, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses many techniques to help the reader understand how Nick Carraway (the narrator) is feeling throughout the story. In the book The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses effective language to make his writing successful. He uses the techniques of imagery and irony to display this message.

 The Great Gatsby is a tightly structured, symbolically compressed novel whose predominant images and symbols reinforce the idea that Gatsby's dream exists on borrowed time. Fitzgerald perfectly understood the inadequacy of Gatsby's romantic view of wealth. At a young age

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 Great Gatsby’ novel by F. Scott Fitzgeralds is a novel that has symbolic life lessons that have shaped my values and realities of life. This novel is about Nick Carraway, the narrator, that tells the story of Jay Gatsby a millionaire purposing the American Dream at the cost of losing himself. A key quote in the novel demonstrated the reality of wealth doesn’t define a person. But consumes them was illustrated when Carraway first saw Gatsby. “I could have sworn he was

The Great Gatsby is a novel that depicts events that happened during the Jazz age. During that time, the economy grows so fast, it builds and destroys a lot of overnight rich people. Gatsby is one of them, the overnight millionaire.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is an American classic. Fitzgerald tells the story of a wealthy businessman of the 1920s through the eyes of whom one could consider his best friend. The story includes young love, wealthy individuals, death, and focuses on the idea of the American dream for the 1920s. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses parts of his own life as the bases for a few of his characters.

"The Great Gatsby" is narrated by Nick Carraway. In the beginning of the novel, Nick has recently moved from the midwest to New York. He plans to learn the bond business because everyone he knows is in the bond business. Once he arrives at New York, he moves into a house in a place called “West Egg”. He lives next to a gothic mansion occupied by a gentleman named Gatsby. Across the bay is “East Egg” where Nick’s cousin, Daisy lives with her husband.

Characters are commonly used to represent key ideas through, and The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald is no exception. From the beginning of the novel, we are positioned to place our trust in Nick Carraway, who is the narrator of the novel. It follows the rise and fall of Jay Gatsby, the tragic hero, who has become infatuated with a young lady by the name of Daisy Buchanan, whom he briefly met just under 5 years prior, and has dedicated his life to rekindle their love. As this is set in the 1920’s, the American Dream is unsurprisingly featured, as this was a common belief that was held by many, its superficiality and corruption unbeknownst to them. There are numerous characters who firmly placed their trust in the American Dream, including George Wilson and Jay Gatsby, who both had starkly different experiences, despite them both believing in the same promise. The social stratification and monetary corruption were also a reflection on the context, as this was set just following the Great Depression, a period of time when people were rather obsessed with money, as it was likened to success. This is represented particularly through Tom and Daisy Buchanan, who both belonged to the highest social class as a result of their wealth.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fizgerald is a book about new and old wealth and how the way money is earned shapes the way a person acts. Next door neighbors, the two main characters build a relationship that highlights the difference between new and old wealth. However, they are shaped by the wealth that they have.