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.

In “The Great Gatsby” a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald discusses the American Dream and the Pursuit of Happiness. He expresses throughout the novel how the idea of the American Dream is romanized and ultimately impossible to achieve, which is shown through the careless and selfish social values and through the ‘easy’ money (made by Gatsby) causing this idea of the American Dream to become warped and and corrupted. The large contrast between the two social classes of the upper class- ‘old money’ and ‘new money’ is also expressed throughout the novel, where Jay Gatsby portrays the self-achieved newly rich, while Daisy and Tom Buchanan represent the aristocracy of the ‘old money’. Fitzgerald portrays this large contrast

What makes the culture of the 1920's different from the decades beforehand? It was the decade in which there was a major explosion in the availability of new consumer goods that were previously rarely available. This includes washing machines, refrigerators, radios, vacuum cleaners, and lets not forget, most importantly, automobiles!

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.

In the article “All Men Are [not] Created Equal: F, Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby,” Claire Stocks begins with questioning why Nick perceives Gatsby to be “‘great’”(1). Stocks theorizes that Gatsby is a “doppelganger”(1) that Nick desires to be. The similarity between their poor upbringing pushes them both to work hard because they never received inheritances from their parents, unlike Tom and Daisy. Nick sees Gatsby as a mentor because of his wealth despite coming from a poor family. Stock sees Nick’s fascination with Gatsby is a result of that he believes Gatsby has achieved the American dream. Stock reasons with the explanation that the San Francisco lie is Gatsby’s way of letting Nick know that “Gatsby” is just an illusion and that

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 title The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald is significant in relation to the book because it portrays Gatsby as an extravagant character who extraordinarily stands out among the crowd, demonstrates irony in the title and book by giving counterexamples to the title, and it reveals Nick’s contrasting way of thinking throughout the novel.

In The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway claimed that “the well-rounded man is the most limited of all species” and that “life is much more successfully looked at from a single window after all” (Fitzgerald). Upon initially reading this statement, it seems to make no sense. Parents and teachers have long stressed the importance of dabbling in many different subjects while warning against specializing in one area. However, after thinking about it the thought does not seem so preposterous and farfetched. After all when the best singers and athletes in the world come out to perform, no one cares how they did in chemistry, or if they understood how to implicitly differentiate. The fact of the matter is that specialization is more likely to lead to success than being a jack-of-all trades, but unfortunately that is not what children are taught these days. Therefore Carraway was correct when he stated that the well-rounded man is the most limited, as proven by history and my own personal experiences.

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 texts ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ (1845) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ (1926) both explore the universal values of idealised love, limitation of time and hope. As such reflected through their relevant contexts and value systems.Even though the text share similar themes their interpretation completely differ influenced by diverse historical context, personal experiences and human values.

The subliminal collapse of self-morals is evident in The Great Gatsby through several of its characters and is mirrored in the east coast society of the twenties. The characters in The Great Gatsby though spoiled with riches, do not stray far from their self-serving goals to do anything other that to look out for their own self-interests. It seems as if no character in the book, besides Nick, ever give thought to the results of their actions beyond their own initial perceptions of the situation. All discernible characters in this book project a true form of cultural ignorance that prevents them from progressing through their lives constructively. Society, as portrayed in The Great Gatsby, seeming to drift around in a vast ocean of