Social Integrity In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is filled with many characters with different personalities. Jay Gatsby one of the main characters, though mysterious, he is determined to live his “American Dream”. The relationship Gatsby has with Daisy also affects the way he is. There are many different layers to Gatsby, and as we learn more about him everything starts to make more sense and fall into place. Jay Gatsby is portrayed as a mysterious figure in the beginning of the novel.

“The Great Gatsby” is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald set in the 1920’s and is a recollection of a man named Nick Carraway's memories of the summer he met Jay Gatsby the person he could not judge. Jay Gatsby changed the most throughout the novel because He started the novel as a rich and extravagant man with a mysterious background, but it was revealed that he didn't start his life this way, James Gatz was a seventeen-year-old fisherman on Lake Superior who had big dreams that he thought he never could make a reality. But he adopted a persona that modelled the ideal person through the eyes of a seventeen-year-old, and met his good companion and friend Mr. Dan Cody. But towards the end of the book the window that is Jay Gatsby is shattered

Jay Gatsby or as he was originally known as, James Gatz of North Dakota changed his name at the age of seventeen, when he started his career. James Gatz was a boy who spent his time loafing along the beach in the afternoons in a pair of canvas pants and a torn green jersey. But it was Jay Gatsby who borrowed a row boat making a start on his way to a new life.

In the beginning of this novel everyone seems to know, or at least have heard, about Gatsby. He is talked about a lot and it is manly in a good way. Gatsby appears to be a very powerful person who also has a lot of respect from people. He has a very strange and kind of mysterious personality. For example when he has his party’s, usually on

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.

Three themes dominate the text of The Great Gatsby. They are time (or the lack thereof), appearance, and perspective. Most of the novel's thematic structure falls neatly into one of these categories. In order to satisfactorily understand the novel, we must examine the roles of these three themes.

Gatsby was once named Jimmy Gatz and soon got changed to Jay Gatsby. Gatsby’s life quickly started to change and he started to get away from everything that happened to him in the past. He saw Daisy and instantly fell in love with her. Everything he did was the purpose to winning her. Money was, essentially, the issue that prevented their being together.and so Gatsby made sure he would never again be without it. Gatsby’s drive and perseverance in obtaining his goal is, in many senses, commendable. He is a self-made man and as such, is admirable. However, all positive traits aside, there are aspects of Jay Gatsby that call into question that admiration. Gatsby’s money did not come from inheritance, as he would like people to believe, but from organized crime. The story takes place during the time of prohibition and Gatsby has profited greatly from selling liquor

When reading a book you should be transported into a world that you can both relate to but also learn from. In the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald you are effectively transported into the early twentieth century. You see many things that people living in 1922 would have to go through as well as things that are still relatable to today. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald shows you many images to effectively convey and highlight his themes of the innocence and lose of innocence, differences in social classes, and the american dream.

As the novel advances, Gatsby is portrayed as someone who relies so heavily on his dreams; only to realize that they are not worthy of him. He thinks of Daisy as some sort of perfect person and is let down when he understands that she cannot fulfill that dream in reality. He pursues her with such passion that it keeps him from seeing her humanly

     Gatsby could never really be happy with Daisy in the long run. The only way

Along the novel, the reader learns Jay Gatsby was in fact a complete different person. In the beginning where he meets with Nick , he lies about where he grew up, making Nick suspicious of his true identity. Jay Gatsby created identity for himself, to elude from his societal past. The reader first learns Gatsby changed his name at age seventeen, his real name was James Gatz.

Jay Gatsby formally known as James Gatz was born to poor farmers. He left by boat one day and met a man named Dan Cody whom he then worked for on his yacht. Upon the death of Cody, Gatsby became an officer and met Daisy at a camp. After meeting Daisy he planned to become rich and also to make it seem like he had always been rich. He decided he will do whatever it takes to become rich, even if it is illegal. After making his fortune Gatsby throws lavish parties that display his wealth in hopes to attract Daisy who lives just across the bay. When Gatsby finally meets

Written during the Roaring Twenties, “The Great Gatsby” addresses several topics of the time social inequality, alcohol abuse, political and moral corruption, and much more. The director merged this era with today’s, choreographing sets of parties and soundtracks of music which compliment culture of the current generation almost a century later. Though some may argue this personal addition and disapprove straying from a strict comparison with the book, it does not forget the morals initially envisioned. Rather it adds a new dimension of engagement, well deserving of recognition.

After I finished this chapter, I couldn’t help feeling strong sorrow and impression even though this was the third time I read this novel. When I first read this book, I couldn’t find out that the main theme of this book is death of American Dream. However, whenever I read “The Great Gatsby”, from the first time to this third time, I thought how hard the life goes in the way people dreamed and the effort he or she did invest in dream does not guarantee success. Thus, whenever I felt frustrated about my dream, this novel came to my mind a lot. I think this novel sharply reflects not just the realistic landscape of American Jazz age but also almost every society at any era, even modern society. Because even today, it’s really hard to succeed, overcoming the poor past background and obstacles.

The desire to fit in and be accepted by society is shared by millions of people around the world. Some search for acceptance whereas many wish to be someone that they are not. The subject of changing oneself for the admiration of society is shown by Jay Gatsby, the main character in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The reason Gatsby is such a profound example of this is because he was living in a society in which the lower class was unaccounted for and was disregarded. He was unbothered by the reality of his social class until he met the stunning Daisy Fay who was much wealthier than Gatsby. The desire for her affection led Gatsby to adopt a double life and in this situation, Jay Gatsby presented himself as a wealthy, educated young man. This gave him the admiration of many. However, in order to maintain this new found social status, Gatsby turned to illegal activities such as bootlegging, or selling alcohol illegally. With the support of numerous people, it was prevalent that Gatsby had everyone misled. In reality, Jay Gatsby was not great and the life of Jay Gatsby was a hoax. The reason F. Scott Fitzgerald added the word “great” in front of Gatsby’s name is because the word provides a sense of irony for the situations that will take place.