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.

The American Dream is the ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, regardless of their origin and history, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved (“Website,” n.d.-a). The dream is an outlook on life deeply embedded in American culture. The ideals the American Dream is based on being present in the foundation of American society, the United States Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (“Website,” n.d.-a, “Website,” n.d.-b). Although interpretations of the Dream vary from era to era, between different social classes and even between individuals, it has a common trait. The American Dream is about hope “Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms out further… And one fine morning” we will reach “the

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the protagonist Jay Gatsby exemplifies both positive and negative aspects of the American Dream through his love for Daisy, his mysterious accumulation of wealth, and longing for acceptance within society.

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!

The term “American Dream” is one of the most widely interpreted ideas in American culture. The term is used to represent anything from freedom of speech, to homeownership, to having enough food to eat. When James Adam wrote the Epic of America coining the phrase “American Dream,” he was referring to America as ‘“a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement”’ (qtd Delahorne). Adam’s definition of the American Dream was not about the attainment of material goods but instead about the possibility of full life and social mobility determined by effort and capabilities rather than

“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”,

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

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.

The soul of The Great Gatsby In the book, the Great Gatsby by F.Scott. Fitzgerald, the author uses many motifs that are spread throughout the book. These motifs help the reader understand the plot and give a deeper meaning to the story. By putting different meanings behind everyday objects and other motifs, Fitzgerald can bring his point across more effectively, Specifically, F.Scott Fitzgerald uses geography and weather to give soul to the time period, allowing the characters and setting to have deeper meanings, and better development throughout the story.

“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