The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

As the phenomenal politician Bernie Sanders once said, “For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.” In the novel The Great Gatsby, written by Scott Fitzgerald, the “American Dream” plays a crucial role in the plot. Gatsby devotes his life to accomplish his American Dream which consists of wealth and Daisy’s love. But is the American Dream actually what it seems to be? Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald utilizes the symbolic value of the Valley of Ashes, East Egg, and the significance of the color yellow to constantly establish that opulence and the American Dream is deceiving as it leads to moral and societal corruption.

The desire for a luxurious life is what lures Myrtle into having an affair with Tom. This decision harms her marriage with George, which leads to her death and loss of true happiness. Myrtle has the hope and desire for a perfect, wealthy and famous type life. She

To be Nick Carraway is to be an unreliable narrator. An unreliable narrator is a narrator, who, has little to no credibility and simply cannot be trusted. These narrators are often in first-person and “seem to have limited knowledge, to be mistaken in his or her understanding of people and events, or even to be deliberately misleading the reader.” (Margree par. 1). The well-known novel The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald, introduces readers to a story where everything may not be necessarily true. The beauty of this novel is that the readers actually get to decide what they want or do not want to believe. This is all due to Nick Carraway, the narrator of The Great Gatsby. Nick is prejudice and has various faults like dishonesty and being oblivious to himself. A character/narrator like this during the 1920s in New York City seems to fit in just fine, after all it was an age of “vitality, sapping out genuine emotion in favor of the artificial,” (Wolok 1). However, Nick’s faults have a major effect on the background stories and events taking place in The Great Gatsby. He picks and chooses his narrations forcing readers to not get only half the story. Along with this, Nick Carraway from The Great Gatsby is an unreliable narrator because he constantly contradicts himself, is biased towards Gatsby, and attempts to use other characters as primary sources.

From the start of Gatsby’s years he has always been a hardworking man. When he was younger things for him did not always go his way, but as his life went on it got better. He was very mysterious in the way that he would come and go, as well as people thinking that he may or may not be alive. Gatsby tends to not make a lot of appearances and when he does no one actually knows it’s him. “Nick Carraway’s pronouncement, near the start of the novel, that “Gatsby turned out all right at the end” (Fitzgerald 1999, 6). Jay Gatsby, a figure marked by failure and shadowed by death throughout most of the novel, nevertheless achieves a form of “greatness” in the final paragraphs of his story” (Will). Even though Gatsby struggled in the beginning of his life he was able to pick himself up and achieve “greatness” by the end. He was not always as wealthy as he is now though, and if he was back then, then things with daisy would be different. Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy is indescribable. He would do anything to get her into his

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.

You can’t change the past the outcome will be different each time. There’s no guarantee that the outcome is going to be what you want or like, because each time the circumstance have changed. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells of a man name Gatsby who came from a poor upbringing believed he was destined for greatness, and set out to obtain the American dream, and wanted to be acceptance by the rich society. While in the military he met Daisy Buchanan, who ended up symbolizing everything he wanted wealth, class, and being part of a high society. She was like gold to him, and the idea of her inspired him to pursue his dreams of having it all. I disagree with Gatsby who believed he could change the past, it’s okay to remember the past, but when it consumes the future then he is stuck hoping for something that has long passed him by, or no matter how hard he tries he cannot duplicate it.

In The Great Gatsby, the major male figures could be defined as both guys and men as their characters at certain times go beyond just guys trying to fulfill their need for “neat stuff” or accomplishing “pointless challenges”, and develop into men with real emotional qualities, expressing their wants and desires for the woman they both love, or in Nicks case: the respect and admiration he feels for Gatsby towards the end of the story. Throughout Barry’s essay, are stereotypes he attributes solely to guys in order to draw a distinction between what makes a guy, and how they differ from men. In the subsequent paragraphs, I will attempt to analyze each of the major male characters with Barry’s definitions of “guyness”, and demonstrate what makes these characters both guys and men.

Being wealthy can give you a great deal of power, yet it will not help you obtain some things you may want most. The American Dream started to expand in the 1920 as people started to rely on money more than ever and even trying to solve many of their problems with money. In the novel, “The Great Gatsby”, F.Scott Fitzgerald aims to display to the reader that wealth does not bring happiness and that people should not rely on money all the time, therefore promoting that high-class society’s entitlement is just an illusion as demonstrated when the goals and relationships of Gatsby, The Wilsons, and Daisy become flawed as they depend on money to become happy.

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.

Satisfaction does not comes easy nor does it occur right away. Those who live a prosperous life and those who don’t are seen as different in society, but both may crave more in life to become satisfied. The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is narrated by Nick Carraway who lives in the East Egg of New York. Nick has only lived in New York for a short period of time and starts to become fascinated with his notorious neighbor, Gatsby. Shortly after becoming acquainted with Gatsby, Nick discovers that Gatsby is madly in love with his cousin Daisy, who is married to Tom Buchanan. Tom trusts Nick immediately since he is Daisy’s cousin and allows Nick to meet his mistress, Myrtle. Even though it may seem as if Tom lives the perfect

The Great Gatsby is a famous book written by one of the more well known American authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald. When it was first released, it met with some difficulty from publishers because it didn’t fall into one specific category that they could use to define it. The book is essentially about how a man named Nick moves to East Egg. He meets new people and gets exposed to the life of the rich, and this life causes problems for his friends. Gatsby, who is one of Nick’s closest friends, gets killed after his car is connected with a car hitting a pedestrian. Nick is the only one to attends this rich man funeral, and he realizes that Gatsby isn’t quite the man he knew him to be. From reading the book, one can tell

The American dream, an ideal that motivates and entices many. A beautiful yet extremely flawed concept according to Fitzgerald. The idea is that every citizen has an equal opportunity to achieve success through hard work. However, we will see in The Great Gatsby that no one is truly equal, and as one rises another falls. “We speak of equality and unlimited possibilities, but in reality both are illusions” (Hearne, 191). The American dream offers hope, hope to achieve anything, wealth, large house, fancy cars, or power. To achieve success, difficult decisions have to be made, and these decisions may in turn hurt the ones we love. For most readers, Gatsby represents the American dream itself. Fitzgerald purposely does this to emphasize the corruption and flaws in the American dream. The American Dream, once a pure dream, was distorted during the 1920’s to be focused on the wealth and possessions one had. The Great Gatsby is about the corruption of the American dream during a time when it was at its most brilliant high. This novel, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, focuses on the characters’ struggles and tragedies while they attempt to obtain the illusionary goal that is the American Dream.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, “The Great Gatsby”, is one of the few novels he wrote in 1925. The novel takes place during the 1920’s following the 1st World War. It is written about a young man named Nick, from the east he moved to the west to learn about the bond business. He ends up moving next to a mysterious man named Gatsby who ends up giving him the lesion of his life.

How came people did not respected Fitzgerald writing in 20th century , but why people are respecting and valuing Fitzgerald work in 21th century? Fitzgerald had hard time to get profit from his writing, but he never got good profit after his first novel. In a Fitzgerald life, his background information was the most important about him, the comparison of Fitzgerald and the main character of his number one book in American “The Great Gatsby’s”, and the Fitzgerald influence of behind writing. From a childhood to the adulthood life, Fitzgerald had faced so many good and bad experiences that inspired him to achiever his own American dream in a short amount of time.

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby can be identified as a man of superior wealth and motivation. Daisy Buchanan’s love fuels Jay’s motivation to be a wealthy and prestigious man- which compares to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life. Another character that matches Gatsby’s upscale lifestyle is Tom Buchanan. Gatsby and his motivations to live an exceptional life parallel Benjamin Franklin’s desires. Both Franklin and Gatsby hold themselves to busy lives that demand for success.