The Great Gatsby Analysis

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

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.

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired” (Fitzgerald 79). Throughout the novel, many characters are pursuing a relationship that is detrimental, and/or are being pursued by a relationship that is healthy. However, they are either too tired or too busy to see these opportunities. That is definitely the case when it comes to Daisy, who was pursuing her husband while being pursued by Gatsby. Similarly, Tom pursues relations with Myrtle while he could be with his wife. Myrtle is so busy with her two failing relationships, that she is blind to how bad it has gotten for her. Also, Gatsby has been pining for Daisy for his whole life, where instead he could be with his father. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”,

The past is a looming and ubiquitous sentiment that follows a person throughout their entire life. That is, unless they move to a new state after fighting in a war and acquire a myriad of wealth in search of an elusive dream. Jay Gatsby proves that even if one can achieve insurmountable wealth, it cannot purchase the love one strives for. The time that passed cannot be brought to the present once it is gone, and Gatsby’s failure to realize this is his downfall. F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes The Great Gatsby to illustrate how the past changes people and their perception of the present through a web of rumors and enemies, facades, and illusions of the present.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby explores the society of the 1920s and the fundamental clash between the East and West as a new money businessman lives a lavish lifestyle to win his past love. Although people with old money such as the Buchanans survive, Jay Gatsby dies. Gatsby, despite his dubious legality, literally and figuratively creates a self-made identity that collapses on the cusp of achieving his dream. In the scene beginning on page 110 where Nick imagines Gatsby falling in love with Daisy, Fitzgerald portrays the death of the American dream through charged stylistic devices.

One way in which America still provides access to the American dream is by being willing to work hard to achieve your goals. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald writes, “To young Gatz, resting on his oars and looking up at the railed deck, that yacht represented all the beauty and glamour in the world (Fitzgerald 106).” In other words Gatsby, a character from Fitzgerald’s novel, sees having money, nice things, and wealth as living the American Dream. I disagree because the American Dream is more of being able to be yourself without others having judge you and achieving goals to become successful.

1. Fitzgerald achieves a melancholy mood in the beginning of the chapter by using sorrowful and negative word choices to describe events. In the first paragraph we learn about Nick's challenging night and how "I tossed half-sick between grotesque reality and savage, frightening dreams" (Fitzgerald, pg. 154). Introducing a new chapter with such saddening descriptions is done to make the readers continue reading with a more negative outlook. Even in the next few paragraphs Gatsby's actions are pitiful and naïve, and it makes the reader sad to see him so blind when they know more of what is going on than he does.

The novel The Great Gatsby and the film Chicago have many differences and similarities. The Great Gatsby is based on a man named Jay Gatsby. The novel is told by a once neighbor named Nick Carraway. The film Chicago is movie filled with music and color. Roxie Hart who was charged with murder is thrown in jail. She hires Billy Flynn as her lawyer who is also Velma Kelly’s lawyer who was also charged with murder for killing her husband. In both the film and novel the women stand out. Whether it be Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly in Chicago or Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby the women have social positions and interactions. Both Chicago and Gatsby show that, in the 1920s, society viewed women as a joke and they're better off being entertainers.

Studies show that the rich are more inclined to display contemptible characteristics because they “are more likely to prioritize their own self-interests above the interests of other people,” according to Paul Piff, a psychologist at University of California, Berkeley, who studies how money affects behavior. The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, takes place in the Roaring Twenties, in which Nick Carraway narrates the story of Jay Gatsby, a motivated man who is hopelessly in love with Daisy and tries to persuade her to leave her husband, the wealthy brute Tom Buchanan. Set in the 1930’s, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men tells a tale of loss and friendship, focusing on George Milton and Lennie Small, two migrant ranch workers

The Roaring Twenties was an epic era well known for many technological and social changes. The Oxford Dictionary defines the word ‘roaring’ as follows, ‘(of a period of time) characterized by prosperity, optimism and excitement.’ https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/roaring This definition accurately explains the common associations that are attached to the 1920s. However, after closely analyzing the time period, one can see that because of their success, people overestimated their capabilities and chased unattainable fantasies. Therefore, the great accomplishments people experienced were the catalysts to terrible downfalls and great failures. This process is depicted in “The Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, an

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