The Great Gatsby And A Street Car Named Desire

The Great Gatsby has been around for ages; it is a story of a young man in the 1920’s who is thrown into a new world made up of the new and the old rich. He is confused by the way these people act and in the end cannot stay another minute in this strange, insensitive, materialistic world. The author, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses many techniques to help the reader understand how Nick Carraway (the narrator) is feeling throughout the story. In the book The Great Gatsby, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald uses effective language to make his writing successful. He uses the techniques of imagery and irony to display this message.

N=Necessary Information: In “The Great Gatsby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carroway, the narrator, has recently moved from the midwest to start his career in New York. He lives on the island of West Egg, next door to a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby. Nick becomes friends with him and learns that Gatsby is in love with his cousin Daisy. They never married because Gatsby had to go off into the military and he was not rich enough for her, so when Gatsby was shipped overseas, Daisy married another man named Tom Buchanan. When Gatsby returns from his service and discovers this, he begins bootlegging to make enough money to try to impress her and win her over. After Gatsby uses Nick to

Throughout The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway narrates the novel through his own eyes. Carraway portrays himself to be honest, but readers learn in every part of the novel Carraway seems to integrate his own judgemental and biased views. Nick Carraway’s prejudice and hypocritical opinions make his narration throughout the novel questionable and ultimately undependable because of his always changing tendentious views. Because of Nick Carraway’s hypocritical disposition and his alternating opinions, Carraway proves himself to be an unreliable narrator in The Great Gatsby.

F. Scott Fitzgerald showcases characters illusions in the novel The Great Gatsby. Each of the characters gets wrapped up in the dream that they all wanted to live. The Great Gatsby is a novel about the American dream and the illusion is that one can be happy through wealth, power or fame. Gatsby, Myrtle, and George all had an illusion thinking they can live the american dream.

No one besides Nick Caraway knows the true Gatsby. People constantly start outrageous rumors such as “…he killed a man once” (44) or “…that he was a German spy during the war” (44). These imaginary concepts intimidate many people, but in reality Gatsby is a beautiful cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure, that needed protection from the harshness of reality and so he hides in his imagination. Nick was the only person who saw Gatsby for who he truly was: a desperate sad boy willing to go to any lengths to keep Daisy—even taking the blame for a murder she committed. The Gatsby persona that is created by the imaginations of the gossiping population builds a wall between the people and the real facts about Gatsby since they refuse to believe anything but the extrodinary.

The line of attack we use in order to identify individuals around us is an intriguing thing. Our perception is forever shifting, forever building, and affected not only by the person’s actions, but by the actions of those around them. In Scott F. Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby Nick Caraway’s perception of Jay Gatsby is always changing. All the way through the novel, Nick’s perception of Gatsby changes from him perceived as a rich chap, to a man that lives in the past, to a man trying to achieve his aspirations but has failed.

There are few authors who are as comfortable writing behind the wheel of a car as F. Scott Fitzgerald. The "Roaring Twenties," was a time of industrial revolution, where advertising, automobile, electricity, movie and radio industries grew rapidly, chiefly the revving automobile industry was the pedal that launched that revolutionary period. Vehicles in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, serve as mirror analytical symbols for various characters, accurately revealing aspects of each characters life's through (their) automobiles, also functioning as symbols of American society in general during the 1920s. At times in his fiction the cars serve as an important metaphor or symbol, sometimes it becomes so closely linked with the dreams of the hero that the car becomes the embodiment of the dream. Thus the car has the potential of becoming the mirror image of the broken dream.

“Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.” (Shawn Ashmore). Cars in The Great Gatsby reveal unseen characteristics about select characters uses them to exhibit their social statuses, and foreshadow related events. Cars colors, interiors, exteriors and even the location of the car can change the outcome of characters, and most importantly contributes a large part to the development of multiple characters.

Life is not always what it seems, but is constantly fooled by metaphorical masks people wear. The appearance of many of the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby differs greatly from their actual selves. The use of illusion in the novel is used effectively to portray the nature of people in the 1920 's, and the “artificial” life that is lived in this modern age. There are many incidences in which the appearance of characters is far different than what lurks inside them. Several of these incidences are shown in the appearances of Gatsby himself, Daisy Buchanan, and Gatsby’s true love for Daisy. Gatsby goes through a dramatic transformation from his old self to his new self, even changing his name and buying a faux mansion in

Both The Great Gatsby and A Streetcar Named Desire are set in post war periods, when the act of emerging undefeated from the ravages of The Great War and the Second World War respectively, gave rise to a physical and spiritual euphoria. This ignited hopes of a more fulfilling and less restrictive life for many Americans. However, it 's imperative to note that within this newly obtained freedom, many people also discovered the pleasures found in sin such as promiscuity, illegal activities like gambling and drinking and such like. There was widespread disregard for pre-war values, particularly in the towns and cities in the United States, as the 1940s and more so the 1920s were periods of time in which all manner of impulsive behaviour was tolerated. Both Fitzgerald and Williams present and explore such issues, for example in their illustration of the rise in criminality, gambling, corruption, alcohol consumption and infidelity; all factors which tainted traditional marital morals. By 1920, there was a spike in post-war divorce rates, family breakups were becoming a national crisis and continued to increase right up to the 1940s. Fitzgerald and Williams, however, present marriages that, although fraught with tensions and suspicion, withstand hardship and don 't result in divorce. Initially, the audience or readers may view these lasting relationships as a show of admirable resilience, however the authors are actually accentuating the reasons for and the lengths to which

Illusion and fantasy dominate The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. They are essential to narration, setting and characterisation in the novel. Nick Caraway’s narration is conflicted between a realistic point of view and a fantastical point of view throughout the novel. In the first chapter, Nick states his family are descended from ‘the Dukes of Bccleuch’ but later confirms his family actually own ‘a wholesale hardware business’. This

The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells us a variety of themes-justice, power and greed, The American dream and so on. The Great Gatsby is regarded as a brilliant piece of social commentary. The Great Gatsby concerns the wasteful lives of four wealthy characters as observed by their acquaintance, narrator Nick Carraway. Like Fitzgerald himself, Nick is from Minnesota, attended an Ivy League university, served in the U.S. Army during World War I, moved to New York after the war. The narrator, Nick, is a very clever and well spoken storyteller. Nick confides with the reader in the first pages of the novel. He says that he needs to tell the story of a man called Gatsby. It is as if Nick has to overcome disappointment and frustration with a man who has left him with painful memories. This thesis is valid for three main reasons. First, it is evident that dreams and memories are central to the overall plot and meaning. Secondly, the American Dream is a “green light” of desire that Gatsby never stops yearning for and something he will not forget over time, even as he is dying. This is so, even though no one cares about Gatsby or his dreams after he died, except maybe Nick. Finally, the fact that Fitzgerald uses flashback; that Nick is telling us about a main character after he has already died and before the story begins, is ultimate proof.The Great Gatsby is structured by Nick’s memory. Fitzgerald’s clever use of flashback throughout and within the

Everyday people create false realities to live in a world that they want. They lie to themselves and others only to find in the end that they are drowning in the reality of a situation. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, “The Great Gatsby,” the concept of illusion versus reality is a leading cause of the failures and issues that most of the characters face. Their emotions and mentalities ran high in the book leading them into a whirlwind of illusion rather than reality. Their inability to grasp what was not real and what was is ultimately the reason for their downfalls.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was fascinated by fame and fortune throughout his lifetime. His characters were as well. His modernist writing style often reflected how greed and a materialistic attitude destroyed people and condemned them from the start. Most of his novels were set in the midst of the roaring twenties where action and the city life engulfed people each night to the point where all problems seemed forgotten. Nevertheless, Fitzgerald wrote to expose how materialistic people struggled to find themselves while they lost faith in the American Dream. In The Great Gatsby, the main character and narrator, Nick

The book The Great Gatsby is written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it’s a narrative told from the perspective of Nick Carraway. He tells the story of the tragic life of Jay Gatsby and talks about the society of the wealthy people with high social status. He talks about the conflict between the two huge power Tom and Gatsby, due to their similarity in their money and social status, while they compete for dominance and masculinity by fighting over Daisy. Through Nick’s narration and his close relationship with Gatsby, the readers realize that the motive behind everything that Gatsby does is to win back Daisy’s heart to repeat the past, the first time when he fell in love with Daisy.