Romanticism In The Great Gatsby Analysis

Secondly, Gatsby is a very mysterious character. Nick has been Gatsby’s neighbor, or so he thinks, and has never met him. Nick says “It was Gatsby’s mansion, or, rather, as I didn’t know Mr. Gatsby, it was a mansion inhabited by a gentleman of that name” (5). This shows you that even Gatsby’s own neighbor does not even know who he is; which shows that Gatsby is mysterious. Later on, once he actually meets Gatsby, Nick goes on to say “I don’t like mysteries, and I don’t understand why you won’t come out frankly and tell me what you want. Why does it all have to come through Miss Baker?” (71). As expected, this frustrates Nick and gives him more reason to believe that Gatsby is mysterious and not trustworthy. Nick doesn’t understand why someone who seems to be his friend is hiding so much

In this story, Nick simply seems like a sidekick of Gatsby’s than an actual hero. Helping Gatsby with his problems, Nick appears to be a genuinely sweet person that further advances Gatsby, the hero, to achieve his American Dream: getting Daisy. Even if all the characters in “The Great Gatsby” are deeply flawed, Gatsby is the closest character to being a hero, a tragic hero. Gatsby rise in wealth and extravagant parties were all for Daisy, his dream girl. With every advancement towards his dream, he waits and only worries for Daisy. Yet, it appears every step of the way, Gatsby is further away from Daisy and his American Dream. He knew that Daisy might not love him, but his continued hopefulness and motivation through love was what truly lead to his own self-destruction, his own tragic death. When Gatsby first met Daisy, he understood his vision of Daisy is not similar to the true her, for Daisy became a shallow rich woman who married Mr. Buchanan. Though, Gatsby continuously pretended to love her, for he did not to waste his efforts in loving her. Gatsby incessantly attempted to make his dead dream a reality which is how he followed to his own tragic heroic

When Gatsby reveals to about his relationship with Daisy, Nick’s relationship with Gatsby takes a full u-turn as it rapidly advances their association from simple acquaintances to close friends. Nick’s outlook of Gatsby undergoes a similar transformation. When Nick learns of the previous relationship between Gatsby and Daisy, Gatsby’s actions make sense to Nick. The mansion, the extravagant parties, and the green light were all in the efforts for making Daisy notice him. Gatsby lives his life for the past life that he lived. He spends his life seeking the attention of his love, Daisy, and as Nick explains, “He wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was…” (Fitzgerald 110). Gatsby sought out the American dream in order to win over the love of Daisy which creates a different perception of himself to Nick. Nick, now knowing Gatsby’s intentions worries about Gatsby’s possible rejection, and then warns him that, “[he] wouldn’t ask too much of her, you can’t repeat the past.” (Fitzgerald 110) But Gatsby, blinded by love, strives to win Nick’s married cousin’s heart. Nick perceives Gatsby as a man dwelling on the past

In the book The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays Jay Gatz as a man who is willing to do anything for love. He could also be considered as a romantic hero. However romantic hero does not mean a person that does everything for love. Romantic hero means someone who is rejected by his/her actions, or by society. “According to James Smith Allen, the term Romanticism has as many meanings as commentators. However, one can sketch a general definition of the movement based on its predominant rejection of classical rationality, objectivity, and universality in favor of an emotional, subjective, and personal response to the world…...the Romantic hero was a frequently a familial and social outcast, and defined him or her self via notions of

Fitzgerald uses Gatsby's parties and the way in which Nick views them to reveal that whilst Gatsby is surrounded by shallow and vulgar people, he is above this. Fitzgerald also uses these parties to expose Gatsby's isolation which leads us to feel sympathy toward Gatsby. Despite the amount of people at the party, Nick observes Gatsby's seclusion and loneliness, "my eyes fell to Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps". This evokes a great deal of sympathy from us as although Nick describes Gatsby in a warm and friendly way, "It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life", we now can see that Gatsby is a lonely figure. This sympathy is accentuated when Nick is the only person to turn up to Gatsby's funeral, as we know that Gatsby is a decent and honourable character and thus our sympathies are emphasised by Gatsby's isolation. When Nick first meets Gatsby, he reveals Gatsby to be a fascinating character that we would like to know more about. The warm and assuring smile that Nick describes is in antithesis to the

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a friendship between Nick and Gatsby is full of dishonesty and un-loyalty as neither of them are willing to go the extra mile in order to protect each other. Friendship is a mutual trust and support between two people. Gatsby and his “friendship” with Nick does not express this meaning as they are continuously dishonest and unsupportive of each other. Throughout the novel, there are multiple signs of Gatsby and Nick having a true relationship as they begin to tell secrets and help each other out. However, the dishonest two, somehow discover a way to wreck their upward relationship. This friendship between Gatsby and Nick contains two sides and perspectives with both wanting to get something from the

Gatsby cannot be classified as a truly moral person who exhibits goodness or correctness in his character and behaviour. Gatsby disputes most moral damage throughout the novel. Gatsby exhibits characteristics explaining the reason behind moral decay in society. Corruption and lies are responsible for the destruction of humanity. Gatsby’s whole life’s basically is a lie as he created a fake identity for himself. A whole new persona, Jay Gatsby is not even his real name. Gatsby

Gatsby is mostly a very shrouded character in this book, as Nick is always imagining, speculating and talking about Gatsby. There never really is a clear representation of Gatsby, as his character throughout this book is a mysterious presence. This quote is interesting, because Gatsby seems to be longing for something, like the green light that he was reaching for in the end of Chapter 2, but in this quote, it represents Gatsby as a docile, peaceful man. To Nick, it seems like he favours Gatsby very much, almost as a benevolent presence with simply one smile. This quote characterises Gatsby very simply; Gatsby has an aura of being a very self-assured, confident rich man who is very sure of himself. He has built a great but mysterious career, and as a result, earned a lot of money that allows him to throw parties every Saturday for everyone except for himself. Perhaps in this quote the readers can understand that Gatsby is a thoughtful person who is omniscient. As the reader proceeds however, they realise that self-assured Gatsby is simply a facade; the real Gatsby underneath it, is more childish and

F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald is in many ways one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. In his first novel, This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald epitomized the mindset of an era with the statement that his generation had, grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, and all faiths in man shaken(Fitzgerald 307). Aside from being a major literary voice of the twenties and thirties, Fitzgerald was also among The Lost Generations harshest and most insightful social critics. In his classic novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald blatantly criticized the immorality, materialism, and hedonism which characterized the lifestyles of Americas bourgeois during the nineteen-twenties. Collectively, Fitzgeralds novels and short stories provide some of the best insight into the lifestyles of the rich during Americas most prosperous era, while simultaneously examining major literary themes such as disillusionment, coming of age, and the corruption of the American Dream. The life of F. Scott Fitzgerald is marked by as much, if not more, romanticism and tragedy than his novels. Throughout Fitzgeralds life, he unsuccessfully battled alcoholism, depression, and himself, in a quest for both personal and literary identity. At the age of twenty-three, Fitzgerald published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, to critical raves and unimaginable economic success. Shortly after the publishing of this novel, Fitzgerald was able to coerce Zelda Sayre into marriage. This

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, is a story filled with love and loss. Love of people, love of things, loss of dreams, loss of innocence, loss of love… The Great Gatsby can be seen as a romance novel, or a tragedy, or possibly even a coming of age story for the narrator, Nick Carraway. His position as narrator of this novel shows how Fitzgerald wanted to keep the mythical and almost surreal nature of Mr. Gatsby. Gatsby has money, a high social ranking, extravagant parties, and a girl to dream about endlessly, whereas Nick exists almost in the shadows of Gatsby with no dream at all. Nick watches as Gatsby’s life changes and falls apart around him, and Nick’s opinion of him varies and fluctuates at times, but he was also the closest friend Gatsby had ever had. Nick illustrates loyalty, divergence, and a lack of ambition throughout his telling of the story, but he is in no way a static character. He is also human, and is flawed, and has kept his morals throughout life, making him the only character in the story who can really change at all. When Nick moved to West Egg, he probably did not expect to learn so much in the

One thing that surprises me about Nick is that he was loyal to Gatsby who seemed likeable enough but empty inside. He seemed like the picture was more important than the real person. Nick was interested in person and would put himself in a bad light to help a friend. “I didn’t want to go to the city. I wasn’t worth a decent stroke

Regarding Gatsby, Nick "had enough of all of them [referring to Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Jordan]"(Fitzgerald 79) and he thought Gatsby was "despicable."(Fitzgerald 79) This is all just after the accident. By the end of the whole story though, Nick's sympathy toward Gatsby improved. He felt terrible that no one paid honor to this man or cared that he was dead.

Although to Nick, Gatsby seems at once completely unoriginal, extremely knowable, being with him, he notes, was "like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines” (Fitzgerald 55). Gatsby, in Nick’s point of view, was disruptive. He is unable to trust Gatsby, for a fear that he would just vanish at the moment in which a promise leans toward its fulfillment.

The development of American Literature, much like the development of the nation, began in earnest, springing from a Romantic ideology that honored individualism and visionary idealism. As the nation broke away from the traditions of European Romanticism, America forged its own unique romantic style that would resonate through future generations of literary works. Through periods of momentous change, the fundamentally Romantic nature of American literature held fast, a fact clearly demonstrated in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald. In an era of post-war disillusionment, when idealism succumbed to hedonistic materialism, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s romantically charged novel,

In literature, a romantic hero tends to have idealistic views and they do things based on their emotion rather than their logic affecting their lives drastically. Many Romantic heroes have been rejected by society, and some might be obsessed with a lost love. Romantic heroes are usually on either a physical or an emotional adventure, and many times the Romantic hero's journey begins with a desire to fulfill something for themselves and ends up serving a greater motive. The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a great example of romantic American Literature. Fitzgerald portrays the life in the Roaring ‘20s, interpreting the conditions at that time in New York City. The protagonist, Jay Gatsby, is an important character in the plot of the story. In the novel, Gatsby displays the fundamental characteristics of a modern romantic hero by making extraordinary achievements, using emotion to make crucial life decisions, and rejecting the set norms.