Summary Of The Great Gatsby And Their Eyes Were Watching God

Jay Gatsby’s interpretation of love was rather obsessive the ‘passion’ he had for Daisy Fay highlighted the idea of a Romeo and Juliet relationship, where one is so in love its bound to be doomed. Also his love for Daisy was much comparable to the American dream the idea that allowed anyone to pursue their dreams and fantasies; Gatsby’s being to win Daisy’s. 1920s was a very materialistic society and at the time the novel is set Daisys is Gatsbys materialization of his American dream as he states that her

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.

ATTENTION GETTER In Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the life of an everyday broker named Nick, and an elegant man named Gatsby. As an American writer, Fitzgerald did a great job symbolizing different things in The Great Gatsby. Throughout the story, eyes and lights are the symbol most important because the eyes symbolize that somebody is always watching and judging your every movement, also Fitzgerald uses lights to symbolize how unobtainable happiness is.

The novels Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Great Gatsby are both very well respected. However, they have major differences that set them apart. In the first novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie Crawford searches for love and intimacy in marriage. She goes through two abusive, unsuccessful marriages before finally meeting the right man. In the other novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway tells the story of his cousin, Daisy, who marries Tom Buchanan for money. Daisy’s original love, Jay Gatsby, turns out to be Nick’s next door neighbor. Drama and conflict ensue when Gatsby wants Daisy back.Differences can be shown in how the role of women changes because of race and location through what married women are allowed to do and say.

In The Great Gatsby, the author, F Scott Fitzgerald depicts the post - war roaring 20’s, a time of overwhelming prosperity and a new found sense of hope for the future. While this novel is often perceived as a romance, it is also a criticism on the devastating nature of the elusive american dream. The story of Jay Gatsby is a representation of what had become the values of the individual at the time. With the progression of the early 1920’s the vision of the perfect life, or the american dream, had been skewed. It was replaced with greed, and an abundance of reckless spending in which the wealthier individuals placed their misguided ideas of happiness. In the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald chooses to expose the hidden truth behind the illustrious concept of the American dream. Through his use of literary devices such as, symbolism, metaphor, and, irony the central idea of the truly unattainable American dream is supported throughout the novel.

In the early 1900s, women were just beginning to live as they wanted. Being able to have a paying job and women being able to vote for certain things was a huge change. What did not change as much, however, was society as a whole. Many men and some women did not like the idea of women being able to do these things. Two books that show the struggles of women in that time are The Great Gatsby and Their Eyes Were Watching God. In The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it follows Nick Carraway as he goes through life in New York during the 1920s. During his time there, Nick reconnects with his cousin Daisy and sets her up with Jay Gatsby, who she was in a past relationship with. Eventually she breaks things off with Gatsby and leaves New York with her husband and daughter, leaving Gatsby to take the blame for a crime he did not commit. On the other hand, in Their Eyes are Watching God, a novel by Zora Neale Hurston, it follows Janie Crawford, a woman living in Florida in the early 1900s, as she goes through life trying to find her true love. Her quest for love began when she was a young girl, her Nanny forcing her into a loveless marriage at the age of sixteen. Throughout both books, the vast majority of female characters have been judged by others for going against societal norms by doing what they want, not what their husband or significant other told them to do. In both of these books’ time periods, women were expected to do whatever men said or told them to do,

Gatsby loved Daisy with all of his heart yet it was not the Daisy he met that captured his heart, but the illusion of Daisy. Daisy’s love for Gatsby is by far one of the grandest illusions that is mistaken for reality. For nearly five years, from the day he had left for WW1, Jay had his heart set on marrying Daisy upon his arrival. He returned to the United States, built up his million dollar fortune, and expected that he would be soon be with Daisy forever: “‘It was a strange coincidence,’ I said. ‘But it wasn 't a coincidence at all.’ 'Why not? ' 'Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay. ' Then it had not been just the stars to which

Regarding Gatsby, it is his lack of emotional satisfaction that shapes his obsession and greed toward Daisy. Gatsby’s goal is to regain his former romantic relationship he shares with Daisy, as he truly believes that it is possible to repeat the past (Fitzgerald 110). In fact, during the last five years, he builds himself a facade through illegal means to impress Daisy. Nevertheless, his greed for the exclusivity of Daisy backfires. Daisy says that “ ‘[he] [wants] too much!’... ‘[she] [loves] [him] now--- isn’t that enough?’ ” (132). When Gatsby asks Daisy to affirm that she only loves him, she could not confirm the statement truthfully, thus reducing Gatsby’s efforts throughout the years to naught. Gatsby’s commitment for Daisy’s affection is the very cause of Daisy’s rejection.

There is a fine line between love and lust. If love is only a will to possess, it is not love. To love someone is to hold them dear to one's heart. In The Great Gatsby, the characters, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan are said to be in love, but in reality, this seems to be a misconception. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays the themes of love, lust and obsession, through the character of Jay Gatsby, who confuses lust and obsession with love. By the end of the novel however, Jay Gatsby is denied his "love" and suffers an untimely death. The author interconnects the relationships of the various prominent characters to support these ideas.

Like many other American writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald too lived in an era that had major changes in America as it became known as the land of dreams. With the rise of the “American Dream”, it became more common to just care about what you want, fight the traditional living aspects and challenge the norms of society that were previously considered as the moral values. Fitzgerald displayed this rise of immorality and drifting away from God in his novel The Great Gatsby. One force that is known to oppose the immorality is religion or the belief in God, which in Fitzgerald’s novel, is not a very present idea. You see Fitzgerald talking about alcohol, sex and wealth, but surprisingly there is

While most people chase love, few know that it is foolish. One should not chase after love, but allow it to find them naturally. Obviously, Gatsby was none the wiser about that bit of advice. In the story, we see Gatsby chase after his supposedly long lost love, but is she truly his love? With how little time they spent together, how much they’ve grown throughout the years, and all that has happened in both of their lives, does Gatsby truly love Daisy, a married mother of one? Their star-crossed story is the perfect example of a hold on the past destroying a future. This essay will explore their strange and twisted romance while supporting one simple fact. Jay Gatsby was not in love with Daisy.

Gatsby does not belong to his own class and he is not accepted by the upper class, therefore he becomes an exception. Because of disappointment of being looked down upon and impossibility of accept by the upper class, he has nothing left except his love, which is also his “love dream”. Gatsby’s love for Daisy has been the sole drive and motive of his living. Gatsby’s great love is also the root of his great tragedy, because he is desperately in love with a woman who is not worthy of his deep love. Fitzgerald offers Gatsby with the spirit of sincerity, generosity, nobility, perseverance, and loyalty. All his good natures can be seen

Authors who write works of literary merit often use symbolism to reveal character traits that are not explicitly made known. Scott Fitzgerald does this in his fictional novel, The Great Gatsby, by using the symbol of the eyes of T. J. Eckleburg which represent the eyes of God. T. J. Eckleburg is an optometrist who has an advertisement showing just his eyes located in the valley of ashes. The eyes of T. J. Eckleburg function as the eyes of God and portray that the characters in the novel are secular and have no moral compass.

With first person point of view adds more detail to the descriptions of the novel. The third person point of view makes the story simpler, and gets right to plot. The advantages of first person writing are that you can always know what Cassia is thinking. It can focus more on Cassia and base the story more on her, rather than anyone else. It is also in present tense so if she is thinking or feeling something you always know that its happening right then and there.

The song “Bad Boy Good Man” is undeniably the best choice for the scene when Nick attends one of Gatsby’s legendary parties. The song has a captivating swing tune which is historically similar to the songs eminent during the 1920’s. This song accurately portrays the atmosphere of a one of Gatsby’s parties. The song starts “The ballrooms packed with cokey girls satin frocks and shining pearls, click my fingers ladies swoon… I’m a bad boy – I need to dance, if you don’t dance no romance, feel like dancing dance with me, first dance is always free “(Tape Five). This captures the type of people that attend Gatsby’s parties. This song also speaks to the scandalous tone of the wild parties. As shown in the novel, one could find many influential figures