Monologue In The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1 Read the beginning of the novel chapter 1 up to page 12 “Tom Buchanan in his riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch.” How effective do you find this as an introduction to Great Gatsby. In your response you should pay close attention to voice, language and style. The Great Gatsby was written by F Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, and is set during 1922, a period tinged with moral failure of a society obsessed with class and privilege.

The written task is an eulogy speech given by Nick Carraway for Jay Gatsby’s funeral. It is based on novel for Part 3 “The Great Gatsby”. It talks about Nick’s journey with Gatsby, explaining his feelings towards Gatsby, and how it changes as he spends more time with him. It explores the character of Gatsby, explaining the social upper class at the time. Nick is also explored as an ambivalent character with conflicting view about Gatsby. In this case, he looks at the good side of Gatsby, since it is a solemn event where people who knew Gatsby such as his father, servants, and guests remember Gatsby’s life, and therefore he needs to portray Gatsby as a great man to those who have come to pay respects.

“It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars”. This quote said by Garrison Keillor, metaphorically exemplifies the true meaning of hollowness and shallowness. Hollowness and shallowness were a major part of people’s characteristics in the 1920’s ‘easy money’ era because of the great economic boom. During this era, people earned their money by corruption with smuggling alcohol during prohibition. In addition, people earned their money by people unknowingly investing in major stocks. A few people earned their money with hard work; it was mostly made easily for them. Throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the shallowness and hollowness of the upper class is persistently shown. Hollowness and

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a story about a wealthy man named Gatsby. Gatsby lives a luxuriant life in West Egg of New York. Gatsby’s wealth has an unknown secret because nobody seems to know where his wealth emerged from. Despite of having so much fortune, Gatsby’s true American dream has not been achieved. In the great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald develops Gatsby as a failed American dream to show the impossibility of the American dream in the 1920’s.

Quote with context: When explaining the different connotations surrounding the color white, the narrator questions “what is it that in the Albino man so peculiarly repels and often shocks the eye, as that sometimes he is loathed by his own kith and kin! It is that whiteness which invests him, a thing expressed by the name he bears. The Albino is as well made as other men – has no substantive deformity – and yet this mere aspect of all-pervading whiteness makes him more strangely hideous than the ugliest abortion. Why should this be so?” (Melville 166).

As the narrator, the audience gets a deep insight into how Nick feels about Gatsby. Nick views Gatsby as an admirable figure, and thinks that Gatsby’s capacity to dream makes him “great.” Nick illustrates how, “...Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island sprang from his platonic conception of himself. He was a Son of God. A phrase which means anything means just that.” Plato was a Greek philosopher who created the idealism that every person aspires to some perfect or vastly superior form of itself. Therefore, when Nick refers to “platonic conception,” he is describing how Gatsby created himself based on envisions of his fondest dreams. Born into a poor farming family in North Dakota James Gatz always had a dream to belong in the upper class of

Tilting his chin upwards, Tom peered up seductively through his long, thick lashes. “So, does that mean you wanna fool around?” he asked in a soft, lilting voice.

When I came back to the penthouse this morning, Daisy was gone, along with all of her possessions. The landlord said that Tom picked up Daisy the night before and paid the next year’s rent in cash if he kept quiet about their disappearance. Daisy never gave me a goodbye, not that it would be sincere anyway. I guess like Gatsby, I’ll never have closure.

In the film of The Great Gatsby, based on the novel, Director, Baz Luhrmann shares the elaborate tale of the infamous Jay Gatsby. Taking place in the era of the 1920’s, also known as the roaring twenties, Luhrmann is able to bring the film to life by constructing breathtaking scenery creating a glamorous environment full of ecstasy in order to make the modern day audience get a feel for what life in that time period would have been like today. Though the story is about the main character, Jay Gatsby desperately trying to rekindle the spark he once had with his past love Daisy, Luhrmann infers that this is more than just another film about hopeless love. Throughout the film Luhrmann there is much evidence that reveal the overall theme of the story. Through the overdramatic characters, who seem oblivious to consequences of their actions, as well as the events that take place toward the end of the film, Luhrmann looks to show the audience the destructiveness of money, wealth, and the American Dream. As the film concludes, the narrator, Nick Caraway, solidifies that the purpose of telling the story of The Great Gatsby is to reveal how hopes of achieving the American Dream can corrupt and degrade the human spirit.

“Is Tom most responsible for Gatsby’s death? Daisy? Myrtle? Gatsby himself? Give reasons why or why not each character is implicated in the murder.”

Communication is undoubtedly an essential component of a healthy relationship. In every good relationship, partners are able to communicate with each other to discuss problems and issues that may be affecting the relationship. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, many different relationships are examined and the complexities of human connections are observed. The novel is set in the 1920s, a few years after the end of World War 1. It was a time when having fun was most people’s main priority, and partying and drinking was an essential part of everyday life. Because of the devastating effects of the war, many people adopted the ‘live life to the fullest” mentality. Because of this mentality, sexual promiscuity was a very prominent part of everyday life and married people were often unfaithful to their spouse. Communication was not generally prioritized in most relationships and resulted in unhealthy or even abusive relationships. Therefore, each couple’s problems are a result of the lack of communication displayed in each relationship.

Today was like any other Sunday I had before, except this time it was different in a way that I thought I would never experience. Today, Daisy, the love of my life, had came to my garden party. She was not alone though, she was with Tom. At first I didn't care, passed right over my head, for she is all I care about and by being in her presents I am utterly fulfilled. But it was as if like a cloud had been cased over the party. Tom was producing a negative energy which did not sit well with the rest of the party. I could even tell my old friend, Nick, was feeling quite uncomfortable with the atmosphere. All I wanted to do was ask him to leave but not with Daisy. He could leave her behind and oh! if that happened I would be satisfied with everything. I would have asked all the

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms further . . . And one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald, 189.) Many know this to be one of the greatest endings to any novel due to its rich meaning. It relates to all aspects of one’s life from our personal life to a country's culture; we will move forward but occasionally go backwards in life because of past events. This classic closing-line by F. Scott Fitzgerald relates to the entire plot of The Great Gatsby, along with many features of real life.

The novel The Great Gatsby is a story that takes place in the 1920’s. The story

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please. First of all, thank you all for coming, my name is Jianbang, it is a great honor for me to be on this panel and to participant in this discussion. The topic that is going to be discussed today is was Gatsby really great. I believe the majority of you know or have read the book The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald. This tragic story is set in Roaring Twenties. The narrator Nick Carraway is an American who moves from the West to New York to try his luck as a bond trade. He meets his wealthy and courteous neighbor named Jay Gatsby. Later, Nick gets embroiled in Gatsby’s plan of finding his lost lover named Daisy Buchanan who happens to be Nick’s cousin and Tom Buchanan’s wife. As the story progresses, Gatsby is finally reunited with Daisy and they fall in love again. However, Tom realizes their relationship and he is outraged by the thought that his wife is being unfaithful to him. Tom tries to separate them by announcing that Gatsby is a criminal, he uses dirty and illegal means to obtain his endlessly wealth. It makes Daisy realize the person she truly loves is Tom. When Gatsby and Daisy are driving home from New York, Daisy kills Myrtle who has an affair with Tom by accident while driving Gatsby’s car. Gatsby is frightened, but he is intended to take the blame. Myrtle’s husband George is despondent and tries to find the mutterer. Tom directs him to Gatsby’s house where he kills Gatsby and he then kills