Struggles In The Great Gatsby

In the great Gatsby, the whole book revolves around the mystery of this man, Jay Gatsby. All sorts of people are interested in this man for many reasons. This meaning that he is a local celebrity, he has many differences and similarities to modern celebrities.

The Human Condition is a big part of our understanding of literature, it can mean death, acceptance, judgment, and several other diverse things. It is about the positive or negative aspects of humans that everyone all universally deals with at least one time in one’s life. In the novel “The Great Gatsby”, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the short stories Raymond Carver’s “Everything Stuck to Him”, and Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”, all have the most prominent human condition: love. Love is portrayed as society’s primary concern in literature, and is represented as a main concern in today’s society .

A narrator, by definition, is how an author chooses to portray information to readers in their work. An author’s choice, in how to tell a story is ideal to the effect it has on readers. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless classic The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway tells the entire story as a first-person, peripheral narrator. Fitzgerald purposefully chooses Nick as a partially removed character, with very few emotions and personal opinions. By doing so, readers experience the same ambiguity of other character’s thoughts, are carried smoothly throughout the plot, and Nick’s nonjudgmental character lets readers form opinions of their own.

Have you ever looked at somebody and you can tell that they are judging you? Well the person who is judging you is most definitely Nick Carraway. He’s a sophisticated Yale University graduate and is very complex with his perspective on life. When he becomes friends with his next door neighbor, Jay Gatsby, he meets some people that he is very quick to judge upon. The book ruckus mainly begins when Gatsby asks Nick to basically be his wingman to help him meet with the love of his life, Daisy. But the only problem is… she has a husband with a big ego. Knowing Nick is judgmental he sprung to Jay Gatsby’s side in this awkward situation between Gatsby and Daisy. Nick Carraway also thinks highly of himself and his traits. So when somebody is so irritable,

The upper class and so called rich people were not very accepting of Gatsby. While hanging out with Tom Buchanan and Tom’s fellow rich friends, the Sloanes’ Mrs. Sloane says to Gatsby, “Well, you come,” Concentrating on Gatsby.” Tom quietly says to Mr Sloane, “ My god, I believe the man’s coming. Doesn’t he know she doesn’t want him?” (105)Tom shows clear arrogance and the tone that Gatsby less of a person or is not deserving to come because he may not be as rich or much of an upper class person as them. Gatsby’s dream is clearly held back here. He always wanted to be that rich high class man that would steal back Daisy’s heart but he is shunned by Tom. Later after that, Tom comments on Gatsby, “ Who is this Gatsby anyhow?.... Some big bootlegger?” (107) Quickly without knowing Gatsby very well, Tom jumps to the conclusion that Gatsby is a bootlegger, or someone who earned their money in a not so legal or correct way. Just because someone has money, does not make them an upper class person, again tying to fact that Gatsby’s dreams were

Despite the outdated settings and characters in many novels, the stories and the lessons they contain are still valued and relevant to a contemporary society. Books provide the reader with an escape from the adversity of reality and place them in the fantasies and dreams of the main characters. Along with emotion, a novel should teach people lessons and the morality of actions and their consequences. Although some books may vainly appear as obsolete and forgotten, each story shares a different voice and a different perspective of the world. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the rivalry between East Egg and West Egg directly relates to the time period and to modern day society. The idea of progress and the betterment of an

The Great Gatsby, by F.Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about a man that is in love and thats wants his love that he had 5 years ago he want to repeat the past. How did Gatsby changes in the book from the beginning, to middle, to end of the book? Gatsby changes throughout the entire book. changes in him are linked to daisy.Gatsby changes and things start going his way, until the end, when he loses everything he worked for.Gatsby changes the most

Have you ever noticed how people almost always talk about what they do not have instead of what they do? Well in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, this is a major part of the book. Fitzgerald’s characters are used to show that people are greedy and always will be. Specifically, Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby to show that society is greedy because he always focuses on what he does not have instead of what he does have. First, Fitzgerald shows how Gatsby does everything to impress Daisy, by how Gatsby becomes rich to win her over and how he does everything for Daisy. Secondly, Fitzgerald shows how Gatsby throws extravagant parties to impress Daisy. Finally, he shows how Gatsby is not happy being rich or poor. This is important because

Nick Carraway, the narrator of The Great Gatsby, is claiming to be the most honest person he knows. Throughout the story, Nick is the person who gives the reader all the depictions of the other characters. Do we want to believe his depictions are true? Why should any reader believe Nick, who lives a life in seclusion apart from the rest of the characters? Are his statements of the others false or does his secluded life make him unbiased resulting in an honest description of the others? Nick is an honest character he stays loyal to everyone throughout the novel and the characters of the novel rely on him. He may not be honest with the characters but he is honest with the reader

Many people break down when handling adversity, but Nick in fact wielded a different approach to adversity. “ My encouragement to you is that what lies ahead may be far better than you have ever thought possible. But it's up to you to get over it, get up, and show up” (21). He takes adversity head on with a positive attitude. This is how the author answers the question over and over throughout the novel, he always stresses the importance of the role of attitude.“... By changing our attitudes we can change our lives” ( 91). The theme of adversity resurfaced again and again. Nick was telling about why he’d been so successful, and why other famous people had become successful despite their treacherous moments in life. “Pick any true life hero,

“Screaming, crying, perfect storm” as Taylor Swift once wrote, perfectly describes the state that my family has been for the past few years. As my mother was achieving her dream by moving to America, my dad was falling deeper and deeper into his mental complication and depression due to the sudden change of foreign culture exposure. Eventually, my parents decided to get the divorce my sister and I expected for quite some time. Considering our economic status, we could not afford the bill for two separate apartments; so heavy and unpleasant tensions between each other developed as my parents continued to live under the same roof. As time has passed, I have become more aware of the sacrifices my parents have made in order to raise my sister and

Lower social classes admire the upper class and their ability to possess the materialistic items they yearn for. A myriad number of people aspire to resemble the upper class, often times unaware of the selfish characteristics that they obtain. On the surface, Tom Buchanan for instance, appeared to be one thatof thethat people society strived to be. He was an extremely wealthy individual who people often envied, but others came to the realization that Tom and other wealthy upper-class citizens in Tthe Great Gatsby are corrupt. F. Scott Fitzgerald exploits people's’ motives to unveil the upper class’s shallowness even though it appeared to be glorified in his novel The Great Gatsby.

One such bias is held by those of a richer upbringing to those from a more middle or lower class background as being lesser than themselves. Fitzgerald uses this as the beginning of a theme regarding divisions in wealth creating social divisions due to some people equating material wealth to personal worth. The main characters all have some level of opulence in their lives and they each take it their own way. Nick seems to be Fitzgerald’s closest representation to his own view of the way that the rich view other people and through this quote expresses the sentiment that the prevailing ideas of class are false and each person works within their own situation. Gatsby himself had begun as a poor boy from Louisville who went to war and had the girl of his dreams taken by the wealthy Tom Buchanan at this time.

The social hierarchy is influenced by the amount of money one owns which determines whether one can attain their dream. By creating apparent social classes within ‘The Great Gatsby’ – old money, new money and no money, Fitzgerald strongly suggests that American society is intensely stigmatised. Daisy, Tom and Jordan represent the elite social class of society where despite their problems and failures they are always protected and immune by their wealth. Tom refers to Gatsby as ‘Mr Nobody from nowhere” and a “common swindler who would have to steal the ring he put on her finger” as he boasts about his hereditary wealth compared to the other distinct elite group of society who acquire their wealth through business deals, which are sometimes corrupt. Although Fitzgerald mainly attacks the rich, by making them look judgemental, superior and selfish, evidently the lower class of society are vulnerable within American society. This is shown where so many, like Myrtle,

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel that tells the story of love affairs, the illusory quality of the American dream, and the rivalry between old money versus new money. The central conflict of the novel is the fight for Daisy Buchanan’s heart between her husband, Tom Buchanan, an exceptionally wealthy brut, and Jay Gatsby, her former lover and now self-made man with garish taste. Complicating matters even further, Tom is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson, while later on Daisy is also having an affair with Jay Gatsby. The Buchanans come from old money, while Gatsby comes from new money. Old money is inherited wealth that has been passed down by numerous generations, and those with old money have more subtle morals and ideals.