The Great Gatsby Book Analysis

In the event of Myrtle’s death, Gatsby was willing to blame himself for killing Myrtle even though Daisy was the one who hit her. Daisy hit Myrtle in Jay’s car, making her the killer. Gatsby loved Daisy so much that he blamed the whole thing on himself. George Wilson, Myrtle’s husband, misunderstood, and thought that Gatsby was having an affair with Myrtle and George killed Jay. Gatsby was shot by George and immediately after, George shot himself. Jay took the blame for Myrtle’s death because he loved Daisy. He wanted to keep her safe, and did not want anyone to hurt

To Gatsby, the light represents his hopes and dreams to be reunited with his beloved Daisy, therefore he reaches out to the light trying to hold Daisy and bring her back into his life. Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as extremely hopeful and optimistic, which causes him to create his own image of Daisy, overemphasizing her importance in his American Dream. Nonetheless, his fantasy is corrupted into his craving for wealth and to belong to the ‘old rich’, which Gatsby believes is a way to bond with Daisy. The colour green, in this case, is used to represent an escape - Gatsby assumes that Daisy could be his oasis, to escape the life he is living. Daisy’s image in Gatsby mind provides him meaning in

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.

Fitzgerald uses the image of T.K Eckelburg’s eyes to symbolize a godlike figure who happens to see everything going on within their lives. George Wilson stated, "I spoke to her, I told her she might fool me but she couldn't fool God. I took her to the window--and I said 'God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me but you can't fool God!... God sees everything"

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

Tom becomes furious when he finds out that his wife is having an affair with Gatsby even though he was having an affair as well. He decides to tell his friend, George, that it was Gatsby that ran over his wife, Myrtle. “What if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy’s but he was a tough one. He ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never even stopped the car” (187). Ultimately, this leads to George murdering Gatsby and then committing suicide even though it was Daisy that accidentally killed George’s wife. Clearly, Tom’s actions put into motion the death of two men all because of his hot-headed, hypocritical, and ignorant

The symbol of T. J. Eckelburg's eyes represent a greater being such as God, watching over society. Fitzgerald uses the eyes in his novel to represent a pair of all seeing, all knowing and judging eyes. The character of George Wilson believes that the eyes are the eyes of God and that God has witnessed Myrtle's infidelity. "I spoke to her," he muttered, after a long silence. "I told her she might fool me but she couldn't fool God. I took her to the window- " With an effort he got up and walked to the rear window and leaned his face pressed against it, "-and I said

They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose" (2.2).” Throughout the novel the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are routinely described

The color green is related back to hope. “He (Gatsby) stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way. Distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away...”(Fitzgerald 20-21). This quote coming from when Gatsby sees Daisy at the end of the dock and the green light appears for the hope that he will someday end back up with Daisy. “‘You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.”(Fitzgerald 92). This light coming from that Gatsby’s house is right across the bay from Tom and Daisy’s house. The green light first appeared when Daisy and Gatsby were out at the edge of the bay, but on opposite sides of the bay. The green light is always one because Gatsby is always hopeful about his past with Daisy that he believes that him and her should be back together.

Another major symbol in this novel is the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. These are a pair of spectacles painted on an old billboard in the Valley of Ashes. The significant aspect is that this symbol only has meaning when other characters instill it with meaning. The eyes represent a higher power looking over the

Isolation is a significant and recurring theme throughout the novel “The Great Gatsby”, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, that has had a great impact on its characters. A few in particular are Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, and “Jay Gatsby”. Nick who appears to be everyone’s closest friend and confidante when he is really the most alienated character in the novel. Daisy Buchanan who feels alone and ignored, even while married, with her child, and all the luxuries of West Egg life. And the latter, for which the novel is named, a self-made man with everything anyone could ask for, who throws parties with hundreds of surrounding him still feels alone and that feeling becomes

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby become close friends by the close of the book. Nick Carraway, a relatively young veteran, befriends Jay Gatsby at one of Gatsby’s extravagant parties. Nick, a stockbroker, admires Gatsby’s driven attitude, while Gatsby loves Daisy, who happens to be Nick’s cousin. Throughout the book, Nick and Gatsby spend a lot of time together, which makes them appear as genuine friends. Although Nick and Gatsby are friends, Nick is so fascinated by Gatsby that he cannot recognize that Gatsby is using him to get close to Daisy.

“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