Influences on F. Scott Fitzgeralds' writing in The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby Final Writing: In the classic novel “The Great Gatsby”, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a love story that embraces American ideals. The main character Jay Gatsby was so desperate to get Daisy. Gatsby felt that the only way to win over Daisy was by obtaining money. This major factor of the story represents 1920's era of wanting to have fun and spending lots of money while doing it. Daisy and the rest of the rich people of New York loved their parties, cars and mansions. Gatsby threw…

“I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” In The Great Gatsby, the narrator, Nick Carraway, reveals just about everything around him except for his own aspect on things. This passage was one of the few times that Nick actually gave his own opinion on the current matters that he had been swept up in, once he made the move from his hometown in Minnesota to the luxurious village of West Egg. The quote, although masterly woven into the story’s…

“Daisy, Daisy, Daisy!” It is all Gatsby thinks about, doesn’t it get annoying? No, suck it up because the next 787 words are all about Daisy and her association with symbols, her use of symbols, and herself as a symbol. How’s that possible, she’s 100% human in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald? Don’t worry, the vacuous space upstairs will soon be filled. So, let’s dive in, like a dead “Gatsby” in a pool. Daisy and her association with symbols is... pointless to the structure of this essay…

The Great Gatsby The novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place in a time where parties and relationships meant everything. Gatsby and Nick are very good friends, but there are some problems with their friendship. Gatsby is in love with Nick’s cousin Daisy, but she is married. Nick is not happy with his friends and is starting to become disgusted with them. Fitzgerald uses irony, imagery, and characterization to show Nick’s disgust towards his friends. Fitzgerald uses irony and…

Color Symbolism In The Great Gatsby When F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing The Great Gatsby, he was not only working as a writer, he was an artist painting a piece through his words. While making the lives of fictional characters come to life for the reader, one of the main tools he used to do this was by using the symbolism of colors. Nick Carraway, the main character, befriends many of the wealthiest and corrupt people of Long Island, while exposing them for what they truly are in the journeys…

F. Scott Fitzgerald is mostly known for his images of young, rich, immoral individuals pursuing the American Dream of the 1920’s (Mangum). This image is best portrayed in his greatest novel, The Great Gatsby, alongside his principal themes, “lost hope, the corruption of innocence by money, and the impossibility of recapturing the past” (Witkoski). Fitzgerald was identified as a modern period writer because his themes and topics were inconsistent with traditional writing (Rahn). The modern period…

Is the American dream accessible to all? In the Jazz age/Modernist novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald suggest through Jay Gatsby, a new-money millionaire with a mysterious past, that its impossible for one to achieve his/her american dream. Fitzgerald narrates the novel through Nick Carraway, a old-money stock broker who has moved out to West Egg, “the less fashionable of the two” for the summer of 1922. The other “Egg”, named after their strange shape, East Egg, is where…

F. Scott Fitzgerald was the model of the American image in the nineteen twenties. He had wealth, fame, a beautiful wife, and an adorable daughter; all seemed perfect. Beneath the gilded façade, however, was an author who struggled with domestic and physical difficulties that plagued his personal life and career throughout its short span. This author helped to launch the theme that is so prevalent in his work; the human instinct to yearn for more, into the forefront of American literature, where it…

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, colors represent a variety of symbols that relate back to the American Dream. The dream of being pure, innocent and perfect is frequently associated with the reality of corruption, violence, and affairs. Gatsby’s desire for achieving the American Dream is sought for through corruption (Schneider). The American Dream in the 1920s was perceived as a desire of wealth and social standings. Social class is represented through the East Egg, the West…

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby can be identified as a man of superior wealth and motivation. Daisy Buchanan’s love fuels Jay’s motivation to be a wealthy and prestigious man- which compares to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life. Another character that matches Gatsby’s upscale lifestyle is Tom Buchanan. Gatsby and his motivations to live an exceptional life parallel Benjamin Franklin’s desires. Both Franklin and Gatsby hold themselves to busy lives that demand for success. Benjamin…