The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

In the novel “ The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick describes Tom and Daisy as careless people which they are. Nick and Daisy are careless people because they can afford to be careless because of their money and use other people or do nothing at all for their own benefit. For example, When Tom told Myrtle that he could not marry her because he was in a relationship with daisy and she was catholic and did not believe in divorce and told lies to myrtle to use her as a toy even though myrtle was also using Tom to get to a higher social class for her own benefit even Nick stated that when she was with Tom that she would act like from a higher class when she was with tom. Another example of Tom 's and Daisy 's carelessness is that daisy wanted Gatsby and had her fun with Gatsby for a while, but did not face the consequences when it was time to tell Tom the truth of Daisy and Gatsby and instead ran away. Another reason that tom and daisy are careless is that neither Tom or daisy went to Gatsby 's funeral and just forgot him like nothing ever happened between the Buchanan family and Gatsby. All of this proves or is evidence that tom and daisy are careless people and money helps them take care of their problems.

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In his novel, “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald creates a main character that catches the attention of his readers. This character surrounds himself with expensive belongings and wealthy people and goes by the name of Jay Gatsby. He is the protagonist who gives the name to the story. Gatsby is a newly wealthy Midwesterner - turned - Easterner who orders his life around for one desire: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. His quest for the American dream leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved and, eventually, to his death.

In the 1920s, when F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, there was a common belief that anyone could achieve wealth no matter their past or current social status. This idea has come to be known as The American Dream. The Great Gatsby revolves around Gatsby and his love for Daisy. Gatsby falls for Daisy because she is his ticket to the wealth and success that The American Dream foretells. He ignores all her flaws and is willing to do anything for her just because she is wealthy. The Great Gatsby’s focus seems to be on this failed love story, however the love story is actually a metaphor for The American Dream. Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby illustrates the mystifying effects The American Dream has on people and how it cause them to put another on a pedestal ignoring all their faults and flaws so they are perceived as a perfect.

Every individual has a unique perspective of the world. To people in the twentieth century United States, this perspective was largely influenced by the American Dream, the assumption that each person, no matter what their origins, could succeed in life on the sole basis of his or her own skill and effort. When people heard about this American Dream, they sought new opportunities to change their lives. While many struggled to achieve it, others corrupted it. In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows what happened to the American Dream in the 1920s. The old values that built it were corrupted by the vulgar pursuit of wealth. The value of a dollar meant little to people, and they slowly began to take advantage of all the new things around them. People not only worked to receive a paycheck, but to also show off on account of how much money they were making. We are still able to witness these things happening in our world now. In the book, Tom, Daisy and Gatsby must all have the latest and most glamorous items in order to feel worthy and content. On the other hand we have Nick who is completely content with what he has.

The American Dream is defined as the ideal that every citizen of the United States has equal opportunity to achieve success through hard work and motivation. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the corruption in the idea of the American Dream. George and Myrtle Wilson fail to acquire their dreams because of moral corruption in themselves and society. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald presents the American Dream as unattainable through Myrtle and George Wilsons’ struggles to achieve their individual dreams because of the flawed American society.

Often referred to as “the playground of the wealthy”, New York City’s culture in the 1920s plays a crucial role in the development of many of the characters of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York City increasingly gains attention, and it soon becomes known as “the city that never sleeps” during the 1920s. As massive skyscrapers begin to transform the city’s skyline, the automobile industry experiences a boom in auto sales; thus contributing to New York City’s modernity. Meanwhile, business is making a significant impact on the lives of everyday folks. No longer is it only the interest of the wealthy, because more and more commoners feel the need to get involved with economics. Thus, it can be

America’s Roaring Twenties were a time of pivotal social change. After World War I, wartime factories were adapted to mass-produce commodities for the middle class, including some, like the radio, that many had never encountered before. For men who had previously lived simple lives on farms in the country, the contrast of experiencing the horrors of “The Great War” and returning to live and work in factory cities of technological wonder shook their assumptions about social and cultural norms – it was a new and exciting time; things were uncertain, but they were alive. For women, many of whom had worked in the factories during the war, the 1920's were a struggle against the oppression of the old culture, dominated by males, that left few roles for women other than submitting to their husbands while staying at home. They had had a taste of freedoms they were not about to give up, but few knew how to fight or what victory would even look like. Winning the right to vote and pushing into social circles by seizing behaviors that were previously exclusively male (or at least previously more outrageous for women) signaled a big change in social norms, but culture was slow to make sense of what a desirable role for women would and should be. This period of lively upheaval and confusion, not without its cynics, is illustrated by F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Regardless of their relationship to the different men in the novel, the women of The Great Gatsby all struggle

The American dream is the idea that all people have the chance to prosper and succeeded in life. This idea inspires people to fight for something or someone. The American dream can be determined by love, wealth, power, success, etc. During the 1920’s, the idea of the American dream became corrupted and replaced with the idea of wealth and power describing America’s failures rather than America’s success. The main theme The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald is the American dream. In this novel, Frances Scott Fitzgerald shows how the virtuous and righteous ideal way to live turned into a tainted and marred aspiration. Fitzgerald wisely wrote that the American dream was “the last and greatest of all human dreams (Fitzgerald, 180)”. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is destroyed by his view of his American dream, corrupted and perilous, of being with Daisy Buchanan and having it all.

Fitzgerald was an inspired individual and had the remarkable ability to write in such a way that his written works are everlasting echoes of his own life. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a literary genius and his work; The Great Gatsby was not only a reflection of his own life, but an outlet for the ever-changing society of the 1920s. The Great Gatsby was influenced by the standards of this time period. The 1920s were an age of excess, characterized by opulence and false satisfaction. American society reached an apparent peak of wealth, and wealthy New Yorkers drowned among illegal alcohol and lavish goods. The important people in his life also impacted Fitzgerald, and characters in his novel could be compared with many people in his life, among

The overall theme of “The Great Gatsby” by Scott Fitzgerald is the rise and death of the “American Dream”. The theme is shown to us through the life of Nick Carraway and the high-class society of which he lives amongst. The characters continually hint at the falsified “American Dream” in their actions and viewpoints throughout the novel. This dream is built through false hopes and crushed by failed goals.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is well known for his numerous short stories and novels during the “Jazz Age”. Take for instance, his best-selling novel The Great Gatsby and one of his short stories “Winter Dreams”. Each tell a cunning tale of romance and “the one who got away”. These two tales provide a glimpse into the lives of the rich and poor in the dazzling “Jazz Age”. However, these two stories have their differences, and they each have similar points for the reader to discover. Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels there are numerous differences and similarities that bring out the best of the plot, setting, and imagery.

America had become enormously wealthy during the 1920s. Not only in money, but also in culture; everything had significantly changed. There were large parties filled with alcohol despite prohibition, rich people spending their money recklessly as if there were no tomorrow, and jazz music filling the ears of this new vigorous generation. It has been said that during this time the morals were “looser”. This particular decade has been given several nicknames such as “The Roaring Twenties”, “The Lost Generation” and “The Jazz Age” because of the many events that occurred at the time. Nearly all the people enjoyed their fortunes and fed their hunger for materialistic items by constantly buying new things that they did not need. This strange desire for material items had become the American Dream; this is what people wanted. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald writes about various characters who spend their entire life trying to achieve their money-based American Dream. Despite their vast efforts, they never reach it. Fitzgerald illustrates in his novel that the American Dream is desired by all, but cannot be obtained by everyone because it has been corrupted by materialism.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, MN on September twenty fourth 1896. His second cousin three times removed was Francis Scott Key, the author of the star spangled banner, was Fitzgerald’s namesake. He went to St. Paul Academy, Princeton University, and Newman School. He married Zelda Sayre in 1920. He wrote the Great Gatsby in 1924 and published it in 1925. He died in Hollywood, LA, CA. he died on December twenty first in 1940. There were six different adaptations of the film version of the Great Gatsby. The first one that was filmed in 1926 is “the lost copy”. It was directed by Herbert Brenon. There are no copies that left the theatre of that film. There was another film in ‘49 that was directed by Elliot Nugent. The

Of all of Fitzgerald’s novels, this one was considered the greatest book. Fitzgerald coined the term "Jazz Age" to refer to the period more commonly known as the Roaring Twenties. Jazz is an American style of music marked by its complex and exuberant mix of rhythms and tonalities. The Great Gatsby portrays a similarly complex mix of emotions and themes that reflect the turbulence of the times. Fresh off the nightmare of World War I, Americans were enjoying the fruits of an economic boom and a renewed sense of possibility. But in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald’s stresses the darker side of the Roaring Twenties, its undercurrent of corruption and its desperate, empty decadence.