The Great Gatsby Analysis

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.

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!

“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”,

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.

Have you ever felt hopeless? In the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald we visit a place called the Valley of Ashes. The Valley of Ashes was a symbol of sin, hopelessness, and despair. Every time we are placed in that part of town, nothing but bad comes from it. Negativity in The Valley includes adultery, domestic abuse, theft, murder, poverty… all are seen in The Valley. Nick actually meets Tom’s mistress there as well, they then go to the couple’s apartment where Tom beats Myrtle, and drama erupts between many. Gatsby comes into the picture in attempt to sweep Daisy away, then towards the end of the novel, Daisy murders Myrtle, and Gatsby is framed for her murder.

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 movie is adapted from a novel wrote written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.