Morality And Marriage In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gatsby’s claim to love Daisy is nothing more than wanting to complete his collection of the grand prize being a trophy wife. It became apparent to Nick that Gatsby wanted to repeat the past in order to win the award of a perfect woman. While reminiscing, Nick realizes Gatsby’s desire was that, “He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.’ After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken. One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house- just as if it were five years ago” (Fitzgerald 109). Gatsby’s relentless need to ‘get the girl’ blinds his ability to comprehend Daisy’s feelings of the situation. His want to shatter the Buchanan’s marriage

“I thought everybody knew” “I don’t.” ‘Why-” she said hesitantly, Tom’s got some women in New York.” (Fitzgerald 15) This conversation conveys that Daisy knows of Tom’s affair but she still wants to stay with him for his wealth. Nick goes on to talk with Daisy where she says “Well, I’ve had a very bad time, Nick, and I’m pretty cynical about everything.”

This is a trend, which carries throughout this novel continuously with all of Nick’s ‘east coast friends.’ During the same evening Nick notes that Daisy’s eyes “flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like Tom’s, and she laughed with thrilling scorn” (20). This quote is juxtaposed to an unflattering insight into Daisy’s character, as Nick observes in the insincerity of her comments about sophistication and the falsity of his evening spent with her and Tom. Yet despite all this, he still acknowledges that Daisy’s character always seems to be promising “gay and exciting things” have already happened and are still yet to come. Daisy represents the wild side of high end New York, but we see that this lifestyle is not quite as superior as everyone believes it to be. In fact, Daisy seems to view it in quite a bittersweet manner and cries that it is not entirely satisfying. What Fitzgerald is displaying through the two figures of Tom and Daisy is that while they want for nothing, they long for everything. In order to satisfy their desires they turn to money and society, and still find these lacking.

The word affair is not what generally comes to mind when discussing marriage, but it’s the reality found in many relationships. Many American citizens believe that only troubled and famous people take part in affairs, when in reality th

While visiting the Buchanans, and Daisy’s best friend Jordan Baker, Fitzgerald chooses to reveal Nick’s vivid descriptions of the three, though strongly focusing on Daisy and Jordan. Showcasing the tenacious feelings and developing relationship Nick has with Daisy, we can observe and take note of the love he possesses for her. From his depiction of her “glowing voice” accompanied by “thrilling words” to her “lovely…[face] with bright things in it”, it is clear to see the emotional connection Nick yields (Fitzgerald ???). Waxing and waning throughout the novel, the relationship begins to alter alongside Nick’s depictions of Daisy, transitioning from her previously mentioned “glowing and singing voice” in the beginning of the novel, to the new voice of greed he becomes made aware of (Fitzgerald ???). “I’d never understood before. It [her voice] was full of money” Nick explains, “that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it” (Fitzgerald ???). It becomes evident to all that the love-struck Carraway has hidden from readers Daisy’s true personality, and does not share aspects of her true self until well over half-way through the novel once he becomes aware of them himself. Thomas E. Boyle claims this exact notion: “How else can we account for

“ I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live”- Saffron Burrows. F. Scott Fitzgerald writes this book in the eyes of Nick ,who is a young man from Minnesota who, after being educated at Yale and fighting in World War I, goes to New York City to learn the bond business and experience a new lifestyle. There, Nick meets a man named Gatsby who is obsessed with his cousin Daisy, but she is married to a man named Tom Buchanan. Gatsby past isn’t unveiled until later in the book and Nick describes him as having an extraordinary quality of hope.

The destruction of society can also be seen by the insufficiency of commitment. In the story, men are chasing after young girls while being married, and women are doing likewise. Tom personifies this lack of commitment when the narrator states, “His acquaintances resented the fact that he turned up in popular restaurants with her and, leaving her at a table, sauntered about, chatting with whomever he knew”(Fitzgerald 124). Tom is a married man with a young child, yet he has an affair with another married woman. He does not hide this relationship, but goes to the extent of showing his mistress off to his friends. Tom’s decay of moral obligation correlates completely to the destruction of society; if one does not have ethics and morals society is doomed to fail. Another characteristic that the characters are short of is loyalty. After Gatsby is shot and killed, Nick holds a funeral for him. The turnout for the event is little to none, not even Daisy or Gatsby’s former lover attends. Fitzgerald conveys this notion disloyalty when Nick states "I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them"(Fitzgerald 172). This quote shows how egotistical and rude Daisy is for not attending his funeral. She has no concern with the man she claimed she

To what extent of a person becoming more well- known, popular, rich, and more or less famous is the limit to their values, morals, and true self? Many during the age of 1920 started to be faced with such a question. How does it happen and how do their morals go so quickly out the window when faced with a new and higher social or economic state? In this story Gatsby was a fine young man with dreams and aspirations for his future and who he wanted to become. Him deep down still had these morals inside of him, but with the increase in his wealth, like many others, these morals began to fade to the background. Fitzgerald is able to show us how Gatsby and the people he surrounded himself with lost their morals through when Daisy left Gatsby for Tom, and when Gatsby was killed.

The American dream is a concept that has been wielded into American literature throughout history. Projecting the contrast between the American dream and reality, F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporates his opinions, primarily based off of his experiences and tribulations in World War I, throughout his literary works.Many people believe that deplorable moral and social values have evolved from the materialistic pursuit of the American dream especially throughout the roaring twenties. His novel, The Great Gatsby, which is set in this time period, shows a castigation of love caused by these specific ideals and lack of morale. It depicts the general

Nick is somewhat opposite. He is more so quiet and reserved, for a while in the beginning he observes Gatsby’s parties and Gatsby and Nick finally become quick friends. Gatsby soon realizes that Nick is related to Daisy Buchanan whom he met when he was a younger. Gatsby also realizes the Nick is also one of the only real friends he has ever had. Daisy is a young woman who is married to Tom, which she is very submissive to and does everything she can to appease Tom, who is selfish and cares only about what he likes in life.

Even though Daisy is married, she still has an affair with Gatsby, the death of her innocence. This also shows experience. Nick was just an innocent boy who only got involved for being a neighbor of Gatsby and a cousin of Daisy, if he had no relation to either, he would not got to experience the upper class lifestyle. At the beginning of the novel, Gatsby and Nick are men of mortality and conscience in a time and place where neither is valued. At the end, one is dead and the other is embittered towards the corrupted world around him.

Fitzgerald's dominant theme in The Great Gatsby focuses on the corruption of the American Dream. By analyzing high society during the 1920s through the eyes of narrator Nick Carraway, the author reveals that the American Dream has transformed from a pure ideal of security into a convoluted scheme of materialistic power. In support of this message, Fitzgerald highlights the original aspects as well as the new aspects of the American Dream in

Fitzgerald’s novel, the Great Gatsby is one of the most meticulously written story of all time. This book incorporates different themes, yet the shadiness of the American Dream is the most significant one. The American Dream designates that one starting very low on their economic or social status and getting success and wealth trough their arduous work. Having a big house, a nice car and a happy family show the success of the American Dream. This dream is also shown by the concept of a self-made man, who struggles through life to get successful and wealthy. This dream does not only cause corruption but also destruction.

The Great Gatsby, a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a story of misguided love between a man and a woman. Fitzgerald takes his reader through the turbulence and trials of Jay Gatsby’s life and of his pining for the girl he met five years prior. The main theme of the novel, however, is not solely about the love shared between Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. The main purpose is to show the decline and decay of the American Dream in the 1920’s. The American Dream is the goal or idea which suggests that all people can succeed through hard work, and that all have the potential to live happy, successful lives. While on the surface, Gatsby

The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, embodies many themes as the story progresses. Some of these themes are social classes, wealth, and most importantly the American Dream. The American Dream is the idea that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. The Great Gatsby is a highly symbolic meditation on 1920s America as a whole, in particular the disintegration of the American Dream in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess. Through the use of characters and symbols, F. Scott Fitzgerald implies the American Dream may not really exist and that everyone in the U.S. aims for survival of the fittest, rather than equality.