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 Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about the so-called glamourful life of rich 1920 New Yorkers, although it symbolizes the entire United States. The book is narrated by a middle class man by the name of Nick Carraway. The events of the book are told as previous events that are recalled by Nick, who is trying to tell the tale of “The Great Gatsby”. Nick who lives next door to Gatsby is from the midwest and believes he is very moral, as opposed to the rich citizens of New York who he believes are the opposite. By lounging around with people from both the East and West egg, Nick begins to learn more about these people and the truth about their lifestyles.

George Wilson pulled the trigger to end Jay Gatsby's life, but he is not the one that should be held accountable for it. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's book, Nick carraway moves next door to a wealthy man, who throws extravagant parties, and is famous to the public, but only by the ridiculous rumours that were made about him. His name was Jay Gatsby. For 5 years, Gatsby waited for the girl he was madly in love with, Daisy Buchanan, who happened to be Nick's cousin. Everything that Jay did, in the last 5 years of his life, was all for her, so that he could be with her again. Daisy, however, had moved on. She got married to Tom Buchanan, who was cheating on her with George Wilson's wife, Myrtle. Gatsby wanted to believe that Daisy has never loved

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

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.

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.

Mirroring the American we know today, The Great Gatsby still earns its place as a canon of American literature. In it’s simplest form The Great Gatsby represents America. The majority of characters in the Great Gatsby can be described as obsessed with the other’s perceptions, unsophisticated, naïve, and sometimes idiotically optimistic. All of these characterizations are traits that fit both the Great Gatsby and modern day America. Although it can be hard now to see our society within their world, in many ways Americans are still dealing with the same themes. There are still divides between new money and old and tensions between social classes. People are still striving to be better than one another and trying to project the best versions of themselves. We still gossip and obsess over people and celebrities we don’t even know. We know what it feels like to deeply yearn for something so close yet still out of reach, and to subconsciously know that this goal will most likely never be reached. More importantly even if we do reach it will we be completely satisfied once we get there? The Great Gatsby deserves to be a part of the canon of American literature because although the roaring twenties were almost one hundred years ago, the same innate human qualities and fixations continue to persist in America today.

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 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

Being an American can mean a wide variety of things to different people. Some people think being an American is someone who is free, others think being an American can be a positive or a negative, but every individual has personal beliefs about what it means to be an American. Nick, the narrator of the book The Great Gatsby, describes Gatsby's resourcefulness of movement as, “...so peculiarly American- that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work or rigid sitting in your and, even more with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games” (64). Nick thinks that Gatsby did not do any hard work and compares him to America, therefore Nick’s perception of Americans is that they do not work hard. While, Nick, seems has a preconceived notion of what it means to be an American, the entire novel that he narrates is F. Scott Fitzgerald revealing his views on what it means to be an American in the changing time periods through Nick. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the theme of the East and West as representations of a “New” America and an “Old” America. The characters Daisy, Tom, Jay Gatsby, and Nick are all used to represent a different negative aspect of the “New” America, such as being corrupted from money, lust, greed, and deceit, revealing how Fitzgerald believes America is making a turn for the worst in the changing times.