The Great Gatsby Analysis

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

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.

Gatsby’s mentality of obtaining wealth through illegitimate means adds to the idea that such ambition results in a loss of human morals and identity. Jay Gatsby, once a poor farmer of the Midwest, transforms himself into a wealthy and charming man living amongst the rich in Long Island, New York. As a child, Gatsby dreams of a future where he will become someone better, more specifically someone richer. Over time, his wish manifests in him transforming himself into an entirely different person. In fact, Jay Gatsby is not even his real name, rather James Gatz. The truth is “that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby provides the reader with a unique outlook on the life of the newly rich. Gatsby is an enigma and a subject of great curiosity, furthermore, he is content with a lot in life until he strives too hard. His obsession with wealth, his lonely life and his delusion allow the reader to sympathize with him.

The Great Gatsby shows the reader that an individual can start at the bottom with only a dream and come out on top with success. Jay Gatsby was not always wealthy and successful. In fact, he was born poor to “shiftless and unsuccessful farm people” (Fitzgerald, 98). His given name was “James Gatz”. Longing to be free from his impoverished lifestyle, Gatz ran away from the Midwest family farm to pursue dreams of becoming wealthy. Luck came when Gatz was working on a beach and saw an anchored yacht caught in a storm about to collide with rocks close to shore. Gatz seized this opportunity to create Jay Gatsby, “When he saw Dan Cody’s yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior…he

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” Jay Gatsby is a very wealthy man with a lot of sense. He came from a poor family and turned himself into a self-made wealthy man. Gatsby always has guests at his house but no one ever really knows who he is. Gatsby is outspoken, mischievous, and elegant. Gatsby is outspoken about everything and is not afraid to show it.

In the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the story of a man who is a symbol for the lost American Dream is told. “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can.” Jay Gatsby spoke these blindly hopeful words revealing his fixation with the past and his need to recover something from it. Through Jay Gatsby’s trials and tribulations in his endeavor to recapture the past, the reader is told of his upbringing and how it planted the seed for his future relationship with wealth, love, friendship, and ultimately himself.

The glamorous Jay Gatsby is far from the small village boy he once was, although similarities are apparent. He is a man scattered in two images. Gatsby shows a dramatic determination and focus on his goals, something truly amazing. He achieved everything with impressive tenacity. His vision of the past is perhaps more clear than his vision of the

To everyone Jay Gatsby had it all: the money, liquor, fame and success. However Jay himself knew he had nothing. The money, the fame and even his business never meant anything to Jay. He only wanted one thing and Jay chased his desire obsessively. Nevertheless nobody knew this to be the great Gatsby many came to “know” except for a few. Throughout the story the reader sees a transition of the fake great Gatsby to the real James Gatz. In the beginning Jay Gatsby is established as a charming and gracious man who is a bit mysterious but transitions to an obsessive, lying and unrealistic dreamer.

In the beginning of the novel, Gatsby was recognized as a visionary who was charismatic, courteous, and very secretive. Once the plot began to unravel, the audience yearns for additional and further demand an explanation of the unidentified lifestyle: that everything he had been through in his career as Jay Gatsby had been with the only determination of satisfying the utmost idealistic dreams — to relive his past. Jay Gatsby was in numerous aspects, as the name of the novel advocated, great, but when considered from an analytical standpoint, most of his actions did not exemplify greatness or even considered commendable.

When reading The Great Gatsby, the mystery of Jay Gatsby’s history is intriguing. Upon completion of the novel and research of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, it is evident that the author’s own life impacted the background of Gatsby himself. After research, the mysteriousness behind Gatsby’s history and past relationships may not be so arbitrary after all; they come directly from experiences of the author.

While the current generation may not truly understand the decadent and rebellious energy of Gatsby’s era, major themes such as the decline of the American Dream, and the shallowness of human relationships still remain relevant to the modern society. In a way, characters in The Great Gatsby are representative of “the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired” in regards to The American Dream. Despite the optimistic belief in the possibilities of upward mobility in social status and financial stability, the attempts of “dreamers” in the novel were left unfulfilled. Jay Gatsby, a man of humble upbringings, longed after a life of wealth and status. His dream of being accepted by Daisy and the elite society of the East Egg not only ended in failure, but also his own downfall.

Have you ever felt hopeless? In the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald we visit a place called the Valley of Ashes. The Valley of Ashes was a symbol of sin, hopelessness, and despair. Every time we are placed in that part of town, nothing but bad comes from it. Negativity in The Valley includes adultery, domestic abuse, theft, murder, poverty… all are seen in The Valley. Nick actually meets Tom’s mistress there as well, they then go to the couple’s apartment where Tom beats Myrtle, and drama erupts between many. Gatsby comes into the picture in attempt to sweep Daisy away, then towards the end of the novel, Daisy murders Myrtle, and Gatsby is framed for her murder.

“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