The Great Gatsby Analysis

The story The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes you through the life of the protagonist of the novel, Jay Gatsby, who is shot to death in the end. Who was really the reason for Gatsby’s death? There are many of reasons that lead up to Gatsby’s death and several people who are considered to have caused it. Although George Wilson physically killed him, Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby himself all take part in the death. Tom’s anger, Daisy’s carelessness, and Gatsby’s idea of the American Dream all contribute to his death in the end.

The greatest sorrow of a life lost is a life without knowledge and experience. Jay Gatsby’s life, of whom we have gathered here to pay our respects, does not belong in this judgment, but does ours, for we have missed out on truly knowing and understanding the countless layers and untold stories of this curious man.

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.

Secondly, Gatsby was responsible for his own death. He, in a sense, killed himself. Ever since he met Daisy in Louisville, he has been obsessed over the fact that they might be together again one day. Anything and everything he did was for Daisy; all his fancy parties, all his wealth, even his home – set just across the bay from her. She is the reason for his transformation from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby. After reuniting with Daisy, Gatsby believed her finally had her in his grasp forever. He even stopped holding his lavish parties, as they were no longer needed to grab her attention. However, after the big argument at the hotel suite, Gatsby learns that despite Daisy’s love for him, she will always love Tom. “’Even alone I can't say I never love Tom.’ She admitted in a pitiful voice. ‘It wouldn't be true’”(142). This is when a part of Gatsby dies, when he sees one of the only people he has ever loved go with someone else. Even after that, he takes the blame from

The horrific death of Jay Gatsby was both expected and astounding, especially since his shooter wasn’t his real killer. “The Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a short novel about the journey of Jay Gatsby and his ambition and dream. It takes you through Gatsby’s love life, extravagant lifestyle, to his melancholy demise. Tom Buchanan is responsible for the death of Gatsby because of his dislike towards Gatsby, his affair with Myrtle, and it was him who told Mr. Wilson about the car. Tom Buchanan despised and loathed Gatsby.

Gatsby is the main character to blame for his own death. During the book, Gatsby always tries to be careful with dealing or handling with everything. But the things that Gatsby doesn’t realize is that the whole time he wasn’t being careful. It all started when he tries to reunite and get back with Daisy Buchanan. Daisy was already married to someone else named Tom and eventually had a child with him.

Death is a common plot device in most forms of media. Wether it be modern movies or the oldest works of literature, death is found everywhere. Though it is a common plot device, it is used in many different ways. A death can be used to drive the meaning of the novel or be a deus ex machina to drive the plot. The Great Gatsby is one novel that shows how the death of a character can be used to further the meaning of the work. Gatsby, the rich man with a pure dream, dies taking the blame so he can protect the woman he loves.

Jay Gatsby is a vastly wealthy individual whose past gets him involved in an affair and an accidental killing. Gatsby was once a poor boy who fell in love with a sweetheart by the name of Daisy. They were passionate about each other until Gatsby went off to fight in World War I. Gatsby had Daisy promise that she would wait on him and that he would return to her so they could get married. However, Daisy is impatient and she finds another man, named Tom Buchanan, whom she marries. Gatsby later returns and is devastated after learning of this news. Gatsby and Daisy flirt with

To everyone else, Gatsby was an “Oxford man,” as he called himself, mysterious, and extremely private about his personal life, and thus many rumors circulated around him. Nobody knew of the real Jay Gatsby, small town James Gatz, because he was simply unglamorous and uninteresting to the American public of the 1920s. Furthermore, everything that he did was for Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby tried to win her love back and failed, a nonsensical belief on his part; however, he pursued it anyway. It was his obsession with her ultimately led to his death since he would do anything to protect the girl that he loved even though she would not reciprocate his feelings completely or do the same for him. Jay Gatsby would be undoubtedly deserving of being called “great” had it not been for Daisy Buchanan who was like his

Scott Fitzgerald depicts a wealthy man named Jay Gatsby who tries to reconcile with his past lover named Daisy, and all the while doing this, man-made violence--both physical and emotional--starts to take place that interrupts the love that he and Daisy had been building. As is present in almost all other American literature, the story focuses on the concept of many relationships and love between the characters in the novel, and one could even say that a love triangle in present in this story. Although many of these characters are in love, this love is not between them and their spouse. For example, Daisy and Tom are married, and Wilson and Myrtle are married, but none of them are being loyal to their significant other. Daisy is having relations with Gatsby, and Tom with Myrtle. The love between Gatsby and Daisy develops throughout the story, giving readers the hope that they would get back together in a permanent relationship after years without seeing each other. This story turns violent whenever Daisy runs over Myrtle, which was an accident, but Wilson then believes that Gatsby intentionally killed Myrtle. Although he was not the one who killed Myrtle in the first place, Gatsby takes the blame for Daisy, and chooses to keep quiet that Daisy was really the one driving the car that night. At the time of Gatsby’s death, Daisy and Gatsby’s love had been growing stronger and stronger. Gatsby confides in Nick, telling him “‘I can’t describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she’d throw me over, but she didn’t, because she was in love with me too’”. Gatsby chose to take the blame for Daisy because he wanted to protect her. While Gatsby was “‘getting deeper in love every minute’” with Daisy, Wilson was plotting his revenge on the man he believed killed his wife. After Wilson kills Gatsby and takes his own life, and “the holocaust was complete”. This holocaust that Fitzgerald

Even though Gatsby is considered a cause for his own death, Daisy and Tom both are culprits for his death as well.

   In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the story of a romantic ideal and its ultimate destruction by the inexorable rot and decay of modern life. The story is related by Nick Carraway, who has taken a modest rental house next door to Jay Gatsby's mansion. Jay Gatsby is a young millionaire who achieves fabulous wealth for the sole purpose of recapturing the love of his former sweetheart, Daisy Fay Buchanan. Five years prior to the principal events of the story, Daisy broke off with Gatsby and married the vulgar and arrogant Tom Buchanan because he was rich and came from a respectable family. In the years since, Gatsby turns his memory of Daisy into a near-religious

“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