The Great Gatsby Analysis

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.

The plot of The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is driven by Jay Gatsby's

“The orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” is the unattainable goal of those living in Tom and Daisy’s world—a world where lives are wasted chasing the unreachable (Fitzgerald 180). In his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that making any progress whatsoever toward this aspiration often requires people to establish facades that enable them to progress socially, but that a crippled facade will backfire and cause detriment to its creator. In the passage where Nick realizes who Gatsby is on page 48, Nick observes two different versions of Gatsby—one that is reassuring and truthful and another who “pick[s] his words with care” (Fitzgerald 48). Nick is at first attracted to Gatsby’s constructed

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

After reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, I was able to gather a small playlist of songs that can relate to the book. The lyrics in these songs relate to scenes, symbols, and different characters in the book.

Although the timeline is kept vague in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald makes it clear that his work of art is based in the early 1920’s between World War I and the Prohibition. This was a transitional period in the United States. America changed after the war and as a result, so did life. The idea of the perfect life fluctuated as troops began flooding back to the United States, migrating to cities, picking up jobs, and buying houses for their new or planned families. The economy was booming, jazz became the new popular music, woman (more commonly referred to as “flappers”) and men were expressing their freedom by having parties and hanging out in clubs or bars, Henry Ford just introduced the Model-T which made automobiles

Lavish parties, rich man, huge house, drinking everywhere, rich and poor. This is the lavish life of Jay Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is a story of a man who has almost everything, Money, Huge house, but he is missing one thing, his true love, Daisy. He bought a huge mansion in west egg just to be across the bay from Daisy who lives in east egg. The central theme in the Great Gatsby is that you cannot have everything no matter how rich you are.. In the Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald shows many different sides of the complicated character Jay Gatsby, some good and some bad. While Gatsby shows many different sides of him, the sides that are most prevalent are his traits of having a complicated history based on relationships or

“‘Jay… You can’t repeat the past.’ Gatsby wheeled around… ‘Can’t repeat the past?’ ‘No.’ ‘Why of course you can.’”(Luhrmann). The Great Gatsby greatly deals with people trying to relive past relationships and parts of their lives. This why a common theme for the Great Gatsby is that you can’t repeat the past. This is shown when Gatsby dies trying to repeat the past and return to a relationship and feelings that had been gone for 5 years, “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. ”(Fitzgerald 110). The movie better displays the theme that you can’t relive the past because of its style, the symbolism, and the point of view taken in the movie.

Nick states that, in some ways, this story is of the West even though it has taken place entirely on the East Coast. Nick, Jordan, Tom, and Daisy are all from west, and Nick believes that the reactions of each, book character,himself included, to living the fast-paced, lurid lifestyle of the East has shaped his or her behavior.  Nick thinks of America not just as a nation but as a geographical entity, land with distinct regions embodying contrasting sets of values. The Midwest, Nick believes, seems dreary and unremarkable compared to the excitement of the East. But the East is merely a glittering surface, it lacks the moral center of the Midwest.  F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, is truly a story of the west as it illustrates how  West Egg fails to lead to the achievement of The American Dream, which in the book was dreamt greatly by Gatsby, and subsequently shows how this world’s materialism is ruining it entirely.

The West historically represents freedom and expansion, especially via Westward Migration. To most, the West is “the warm centre of the world,” (3) unless it becomes too disconnected from the rest of the world as Nick believes the Midwest to be. West Egg is also the antithesis of East Egg, and is “the less fashionable of the two” (5). However, West Egg is what Nick remembers and though it was less exciting, it “still figures in [his] more fantastic dreams” (176). The West is where all the characters started and is how they all became wealthy. Nick states near the end of his story that “this has been a story of the West after all- Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us unadaptable to Eastern life” (176). These characters all come from well-off families who had money, but were not entirely preoccupied with the concept of money as they needed to be to thrive in the East, at least according to Nick. The Carraway family truly was able to exhibit the American dream as they came from Ireland during hard times and were able to become “well-to-do people in this Middle Western City...who… started [a] wholesale hardware business” (3). The West is not glamorized, but still has enchanting qualities which Nick lists with a sense of excitement, shown by the polysyndeton

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, which took place during the summer of 1922 in New York, the narrator Nick Carroway travels east in hopes of becoming an independent individual, however, while he is there he enters the world of the elite where he gradually uncovers the truth about the lacking morals of the rich and famous. At the beginning point of Nick’s time in New York, he purchases a petite house in the core of an exceedingly rich neighborhood, West Egg, as a start of pursuing The American Dream of becoming financially successful. There Nick befriends a group of highly wealthy people where their persistent immoral behaviors expose that the success, the people, and the ideal that The American Dream represents is ironically

He does this by showing to the readers where the new money lives and where the old money lives. West Egg is home to “new money,” those who have acquired their wealth recently and lack an established social position. East Egg is home to “old money,” those who possess wealth that has been inherited through several generations. Fitzgerald talks about how people from the more wealthy side of town, East Egg,

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby become close friends by the close of the book. Nick Carraway, a relatively young veteran, befriends Jay Gatsby at one of Gatsby’s extravagant parties. Nick, a stockbroker, admires Gatsby’s driven attitude, while Gatsby loves Daisy, who happens to be Nick’s cousin. Throughout the book, Nick and Gatsby spend a lot of time together, which makes them appear as genuine friends. Although Nick and Gatsby are friends, Nick is so fascinated by Gatsby that he cannot recognize that Gatsby is using him to get close to Daisy.

In the modern society, people’s action and thoughts are tend to be influenced by the things or factors from their past. In the novel, the Great Gatsby, characters’ lives and judgment, like those of Nick, Gatsby and Tom’s, are affected by the background, love and events from the past. The novel is about Gatsby’s unsuccessful way of getting back Daisy from her husband Tom and eventually uses his life to protect Daisy from the murder. F. Scott Fitzgerald, a famous American novelist and short story author during the period of Jazz Age compose these novel to illustrate his way of viewing the American dream in 1920s. In the novel the Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses the story of Gatsby and Tom and Judgment from Nick to teach us one significant

“The Great Gatsby” is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City from spring to autumn of 1922. The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the “roaring” as the economy soared. At the same time, prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely