The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The American Dream is a philosophy based off of starting from nothing and achieving family, fortune, and fame. The belief that self-determination and hard work will lead to the attainment of the American Dream is strongly tied with the American culture. This philosophical idea, however, is not portrayed in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which is often referred to as one of the “Great American Novels” to date. In terms, a “Great American Novel” should portray an honest and well-remembered character, rather than a character such as Jay Gatsby who achieved his fortune through illegal business and dies without recognition towards the end. Although Gatsby lives a lavish lifestyle that many people fantasize about, Gatsby’s American Dream is never fully fulfilled due to his failure of not having a family, successfully obtaining money the righteous way, and leaving a legacy; therefore, the novel The Great Gatsby, should not be entitled as the “Great American Novel” today.

Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby are rivals within F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby. Throughout the entire story, Tom and Gatsby fall in love with the same person but in the end Daisy has to choose one of them. Gatsby knew Daisy from when he was enlisted in war. Though Daisy did not have the patients to wait for Gatsby, and the fact that he did not have much money did not make it any easier. He was starting to realize that because of it he would not be able to win her over. Once Tom showed up into her life everything changed. She left Gatsby and decided she wanted to pursue her life with Tom. Even though Daisy chooses Tom instead of Gatsby, Gatsby would have been a better choice.

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While learning about The Great Gatsby preface, I learned that the Gatsby is not an uplifting story, its just a classic. I learned that F. Scott Fitzgerald was an alcoholic, and not the best of role models. I also learned that The Great Gatsby contains many memorable characters and that I may run into a lot of situations that reference this story, so I should read it.

Dance has shaped the way we look at many different things throughout history. It has shaped how people socialize, what music people listen to, and even whole eras. One such era is the roaring 1920s. How did people socialize in the 1920s? They danced the evening away. What music did people listen to? Jazz music that they could listen to while they danced the evening away. Dance was a huge part of what made up the glorious Jazz Age. So, when a book was written to describe the 1920s scene, no doubt there had to be dance, and lots of it. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the energy level of the parties, music, and dancing to represent a vast array of emotions within the characters.

Gatsby lived in a world where money took priority over moral integrity, which impacted negatively on Gatsby. In the past, Gatsby had an love affair with the affluent Daisy. But they separated because of the difference in their social status. Then Gatsby started to amass wealth. In the process of seeking for money and status, Gatsby began his evil business. To be rich, he engaged in criminal activities. Through his dealings with organized crimes, it could be seen that he did not adhere to the American Dream guidelines. So his American Dream was doomed to failure. In addition, Gatsby was blinded due to his ideal love for Daisy. Actually, Daisy was far from the idealistic figure in Gatsby’s mind. She was a realistic woman, attracted by substantial things—money and solid social status. However, because of his blinded love, Gatsby could not realize the true essence of Daisy, though he saw through that “her voice is full of money”. Even if they could live together, Gatsby would have been

Is it possible to repeat the past? Can one really recreate something that happened years before? According to Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby it is possible; and it has been done for the book The Great Gatsby itself. The Great Gatsby has been adapted into film many times by various directors; however, there are two that are considered most popular. The first really popular The Great Gatsby was Jack Clayton’s version that was released in 1974, and more recently Baz Luhrmann’s version that was released in 2013. Since the two movies are based on the same book, they have some of the same characteristics, but both movies are distinct. The two different movie directors make the movies distinct by: differences in how the characters are portrayed, the parties that are thrown, and the overall mood of the films.

An often controversial and debated topic within most literature revolves around the morality of certain characters, and whether or not they are deserving of their accepted reputations. These questions come into play during contentious debates such as the infamous “good versus evil” and “angels and demons.” The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald induces the question of morality. Gatsby, a reserved and wealthy man who seeks the love from a past acquaintance, captures the “Lost Generation” essence as he devotes his life to partying and living an embellished lifestyle. But the question of whether he deserves the adjective “great” often arises. What truly determines if a character is deserving of their reputation? Is it the way people perceive them as a person, or their ability to live up to their expectations? Is it their level of morality, and if so, do their mistakes from the past affect their current determination of morality? Many avid readers would fight to prove the Great Gatsby is in fact not that “great” – maybe more deserving of the name “The Mediocre Gatsby.” But heated debates often spawn from the most controversial characters, illustrating the idea that the reader has the most effect on characterization. Their own interpretation of the writing and how they define morals could be the ultimate determination of a character’s true ethics, and whether a character’s reputation is fitting. In regards to the novel, The Great Gatsby is not deserving of his accepted persona

I already knew the Director Baz Luhrmann’s makings of The Great Gatsby wasn 't going to be perfect, I like the movie because of the action and I dislike reading. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel is a basis of most American teenagers’ introduction into literature, it’s as if it was specifically built to resist filmmakers. The Great Gatsby book gave more feeling and relations of life than the movie. That a film is an interpretation of a book, but it missed a lot of things that could have been added in someone. The Great Gatsby book and movie has a lot of differences, but also a lot of the same things of it.

Quite a number of plays and novels written and ridden over the years seem to share a common theme; the search for the Omni-present, self invented standard that we have all come to know as ‘The American Dream’. The pursuit of this ever so highly held ideal not only drives many a character forward, but in some cases over the edge of sanity or even to their untimely deaths. This in a way makes ‘The Dream’ some sort of green eyed monster lurking in the darkest of corners found in the human mind. Making the pursuit of dreams almost as dangerous as say a high speed police pursuit on a crowded highway, the wrong side of a crowded even. For the very hopes and ideals that make up this most elusive of dreams seem to sow a great deal of doubt, delusions and disillusionment in whoever seeks it. The dangers of following your dreams are very real indeed; they should not however stop you.

Frances Scott Key Fitzgerald, born September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, is seen today as one of the true great American novelists. Although he lived a life filled with alcoholism, despair, and lost-love, he managed to create the ultimate love story and seemed to pinpoint the American Dream of his time in his classic novel, The Great Gatsby. In the novel, Jay Gatsby is the epitome of the self-made man, in which he dedicates his entire life to climbing the social ladder in order to gain wealth, to ultimately win the love of a woman: something that proves to be unattainable. As it turns out, Gatsby’s excessive extravagance and love of money, mixed with his obsession for a woman’s love, is actually the autobiographical portrayal of

The Great Gatsby was written in 1923 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It has been a critical and financial success since it was released and is on many must-read lists. Several movies based on the novel have been released over the years, but none of them were criticized more than the one released in 2013. According to Shahendra Ohneswere, a writer for Life + Times, The Great Gatsby is a thinly veiled version of Fitzgerald’s own life. He wrote books as a way to make money and gain fame so that the woman he loved would marry him. He threw extravagant parties to impress her just as Gatsby does to impress Daisy. His true story, however, ended on a much happier note than his book. As with any form of adaptation, there are several differences between the novel and film. The main differences I found were the way that Daisy is portrayed, the relationship between Nick and Jordan, and the way that Tom and Myrtle’s characters are depicted.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, “ The Great Gatsby “, is one of his best work and also one of the very few he wrote in the mid 1920’s. Just by the way he describes it makes it feel like you are in the 1920’s. The novel gives you a real life picture of what the 1920’s were like back then with the gangsters and the illegal actions that are going on. Also with the partying and how the high class lived that is exactly how they were in the 1920’s.

The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. Fitzgerald was an American author of novels. His book, The Great Gatsby, is being told on how there is a difference between people having old money and new money, and cheating themselves through that to have a lifestyle they cannot maintain, and in the end will throw them down. Wealth, material possessions, and power are the main goals of the American Dream in this book. Reaching the American Dream is not always reaching true happiness; but its the desire of money and life’s possibilities, together they combine dreams and life into a useless lifestyle based on lies. To live out the American Dream, one had rruption and greed. In The Great Gatsby, the American Dream was presented slowly as a corrupted version of what used to be an honest way to live. People trying to elude themselves from rags and go on to riches, and whatever they can do to live an image up to the people in the high society.

To what extremity would one go to pursue love? Are those actions justified? Or does love and passion simply bind one’s self from the immorality and repercussions caused by one’s actions? These types of questions directly encompass the character, Jay Gatsby from the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The actions taken by Gatsby support one of the major themes prevalent in the novel: immorality. Immorality at the time this novel takes place-- the 1920’s-- seems to reflect not only the characters in the book, but also relate to the changing social dynamics of society which even further the extremity of Gatsby’s self-indulgence and questionable acts at the time.