Influences In The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s had a big impact in 1920’s until now because he gave very good ideas how was the lives of the American people in 1920’s the traditions and fashion and how people dressed up , hes career started in Princeton University , but the eventually had to drop out after three years because of hes poor education performance.F. Scott Fitzgerald’s died of heart attack on December 21st 1940 , i used Source(A,B,C)F. Scott Fitzgerald’s contribution to American culture a lot of point of views in 1920’s , he contributed wealth and the American class system , he also showed different lifestyles of poor and rich people ,he inspired American people by hard working and show that how the started becoming famous and winning rewards.

In The Great Gatsby, the author, F Scott Fitzgerald depicts the post - war roaring 20’s, a time of overwhelming prosperity and a new found sense of hope for the future. While this novel is often perceived as a romance, it is also a criticism on the devastating nature of the elusive american dream. The story of Jay Gatsby is a representation of what had become the values of the individual at the time. With the progression of the early 1920’s the vision of the perfect life, or the american dream, had been skewed. It was replaced with greed, and an abundance of reckless spending in which the wealthier individuals placed their misguided ideas of happiness. In the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald chooses to expose the hidden truth behind the illustrious concept of the American dream. Through his use of literary devices such as, symbolism, metaphor, and, irony the central idea of the truly unattainable American dream is supported throughout the novel.

When an author writes a novel he keeps many things in mind. The author will precisely uses word choice, syntax, imagery, and many other literary devices to craft their own piece of art. From F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby a selected passage can reveal all the feature to his piece of art. From this passage things such as syntax and imagery will be discussed. Fitzgerald crafts his ideas through these literary features for the reader.

The society our nation lives in today has developed morals and principles through the lessons experienced from the past. The Roaring Twenties was a time of change and a chance to pave a path for the person you wanted to become. Morals and principles served as guidelines rather than rules and were merely preached that practiced. Thus, the severity of the immoral actions taking place created opportunities for lessons to be learned. In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrated various moral lessons through the downfall and corruption of various characters based on their immoral actions. The narrator, Nick Carraway is a young man who throughout the

The Great Gatsby (2013) is a romantic drama film directed by Baz Luhrmann. The film’s screenplay is based on F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) novel “The Great Gatsby.” It starts Leonardo Dicaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Elizabeth Debicki and Isla Fisher. It follows the life of a multi-millionaire Jay Gatsby from the perspective of the narrator Nick Carraway who moves to New York out from the Midwest chasing his own American dream and end up living next door to Gatsby. The film is very alluring because it allows us to learn about the different aspects of the American Dream through an epic romantic drama between Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan.

Have you ever admired anyone in your life to the point that this person seems like he or she is more than human or God like. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, the main character, Nick, introduces Jay Gatsby in a divine like way even though he does not really know much about him at this point. As the story progresses, a series of events that occur guide Nick to finding out the truth about Gatsby. His view of Gatsby clearly changes through this period of time and Nick begins to picture Gatsby as a regular human being who is not much different than him. Nick portrays Gatsby as a divine figure because Nick does not know Gatsby’s hidden truths, but as Nick begins to learn the truth, Gatsby loses his angelic characteristics.

characters in the story. Not only Gatsby but also Nick and Tom. I definitely think Jay

Throughout the years of literature, authors have experienced everyday life just as their audience has. Their experiences influence not only how they live their life; but, also how they will write their novels. Authors such as Stephen King, Cassandra Clare, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Charles Dickens have had experiences in their daily life that is found in their writings. Every author who has ever written a work has been influenced by something that they have lived through or has been inspired by an event that related to their life.

The Great Gatsby Motifs The theme society and class in The Great Gatsby relates directly to the motif of the parties. The parties showed how each class acted at the party or how it was hosted based on their rank in society. At Gatsby’s parties it was described as “…they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park.”

In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he speculates that the influence of alcohol has concerning effects in various ways throughout the three parties. During all three of the parties there was at least one thing that was influenced by alcohol, even though they were all different, alcohol was the variable. The first party took place at Daisy and Tom’s mansion in The East Egg, Tom was drinking causing himself to be very dominant and violent making the atmosphere very tense, “You did it Tom. I know you didn't mean to but you did do it” (Fitzgerald 12). In the second party at Tom and Myrtle’s apartment in New York, Tom lashes out striking Myrtle in the face causing a nosebleed, “Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with

“Most writers,” as James L. W. West, III illustrates in “The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love,” find inspiration for their fictional characters from influences in their own lives, thus creating “composite characters” (West 113). Having a personal relationship with the inspirations for their characters, writers can successfully characterize these imaginative personas. F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the most notable American writers of the early twentieth-century, is no exception; a number of his short stories, including “Babylon Revisited,” “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” and “Winter Dreams,” can be seen as self-reflective or even autobiographical. Fitzgerald’s recurring tendency to model characters

F. Scott Fitzgerald was deeply intrigued and impacted by the jazz age, also known as the Roaring twenties. He represented the Jazz era through the razzle dazzle in his famous novel The Great Gatsby by using his unique style with beautifully worded colorful imagery. It brought his stories to life and let all of his readers get a taste of what its like to live in this famous sparkling era. (Oxford 21)

“The Roaring 20’s” is a common name used for the 1920’s era because there was much success around the nation, subsequent to World War 1. F. Scott Fitzgerald writes “The Great Gatsby” with it’s setting dating back to the 1920’s. In this novel, Fitzgerald writes about the baffling main character known as Jay Gatsby and other complex symbols throughout the novel. Followed by this novel were many films, one being “The Great Gatsby” (2013) successfully directed by Baz Luhrmann. The novel and the book both share similarities, yet have some differences between the parties, characters, and the symbols.

Young people were fascinated by the culture and how fashionable they were. It was an interesting topic to everyone that either designed it or heard about it. The Great Gatsby and the Jazz Age had many similarities. One similarity was the way they dressed, and how they danced. They both had the same rhythm to there, and they danced the same.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a story that has many different themes. Fitzgerald shows the themes that he uses through his character’s desires and actions. This novel has themes in it that we deal with in our everyday life. It has themes that deal with our personal lives and themes that deal with what’s right and what’s wrong. There are also themes that have to do with materialistic items that we deal desire on a daily basis. Fitzgerald focuses on the themes of corrupted love, immorality, and the American Dream in order to tell a story that is entertaining to his readers.