The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby may seem like a simple love story, but upon a deeper literary analysis, it is much more. Soldiers from World War I came home to a country that was infatuated with materialistic items. With the creation of the stock market, these soldiers wanted to pursue the American Dream, not only did this create the problem of “old money” vs “new money” it was also a factor that ultimately led to Gatsby’s death. Within the many themes of The Great Gatsby, Gatsby goes on to highlight the inadequacies of the American Dream in the 1920s.

In, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the characters in the story are shown to have enormous wealth and live in the areas of East and West Egg. Jay Gatsby lives in West Egg, while the Buchanan 's live in East Egg. Although both are rich beyond belief, (the Buchanan 's from old money. Gatsby from new money), both Gatsby and Tom Buchanan reach for more and more from life. This appetite to gain and gain could and did have tremendous repercussions. Not only repercussions to their reputations, but also repercussions to their life with loved ones. By examining Gatsby and Tom in, "The Great Gatsby," and their inability to be content with what they have, one can determine how being unappreciative can lead to consequences such as death, love lost and soiling of reputation

Parents always warn their children to steer clear from shady and unreliable characters. Real life situations are the target of this notion, but such a claim also stands true for literature. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, Nick, the narrator, is a shady character who disclosed no personal information about himself and expected the viewer’s trust in return. As a result, Scott Donaldson, in his article “The Trouble with Nick” deliberates his opinion over what a terrible person Nick is, however later determines that regardless of how shady Nick may be, he is still the only one fit to narrate The Great Gatsby. Some of Scott Donaldson’s views of Nick as an unreliable narrator may stand true; however, it is definitely agreeable that Nick Carraway is the only acceptable narrator for The Great Gatsby.

"Never has symbolism played such a crucial part in the very foundation of a novel as it does in Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby." Harold Bloom has written about this book. The author used several types of symbolism in The Great Gatsby. The colours are probably the easiest to be recognized and guessed what they symbolized. According to the definition “symbolism” is "the practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships."

The Roaring 20s, The Jazz age, the 1920s was a time of great prosperity in the United States. The 1920s were an era of change, both politically and socially. Americans began to move into cities, rather than living on farms, and the nation's wealth more than doubled. Buying the same goods, listening to the same music, dancing the same dances, and overall having the same values, people felt united. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, these values are reflected in the characters’ lifestyles. A recurring theme in the novel is that money cannot buy a person’s true happiness, and this theme is exhibited in the various characters’ actions, choices, and what they value most in their lives.

It is quite common nowadays that classic pieces of literature are transformed into movies. Oftentimes these movies are considered to be not as enjoyable to view as the book, one such case is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; a classic novel that gives us a glimpse into the vivacious 1920s. The story begins with Nick Carraway (the narrator) explaining the backstory of his life. He lives in a fictional town on Long Island, named West Egg, across the bay from his cousin Daisy Buchanan and next to a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, whom he rarely sees. Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan, a hypocritical and arrogant man of old money. Gatsby on the other hand is an idealistic man of new money, who became wealthy through bootlegging. He is

Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald addresses the morality of the people he saw as representative of his time through the behaviors of the characters in the novel and how these characters react to various situations. The 1920s were an era marked by money, cars, and breaking down social barriers. While certain characters, who are not always led by their moral compasses, are able to question the morality of the actions of other characters, nearly all of the characters in the novel evolved to change the shifting views of the time. Various characters throughout the novel, including Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom, used their money as a shield to protect them from taking responsibility for their actions.

The Great Gatsby, a book incorporating many symbols. Society. Colors. The american dream. All of these are shown by Fitzgerald in the way he writes The Great Gatsby. This novel follows the lives of Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Tom and Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and George and Myrtle Wilson. Throughout the story many events from history appear, and within these events many important things to all of the characters. Nick Carraway is the narrator of the novel and closely follows the life of Jay Gatsby, and more importantly the affairs happening between Daisy and Jay, and Tom and Myrtle.

A novel’s opening is a crucial foundation for any work of fiction as it prepares before the reader a roadmap for the remainder of the story. One of the great Twentieth-century American novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald questions the reliability of a first-person narrator operating as a character within the story. When Nick Carraway sits down to write about his experiences living in the East and the man who “gives his name to this book (1),” Nick consistently attempts to establish himself as a credible narrator of The Great Gatsby. Carraway exposes the unrestrained hypocrisy and moral emptiness surrounding the materialistic wealth while attempting

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby showcases the American society during the Roaring 1920s. During this time period many longed to be rich and become a member of the upper class. It became one’s dream to obtain good social standing rather than to achieve freedom and happiness. Fitzgerald creates characters, such as Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby, who are more concerned with wealth than what truly makes them happy in life. Therefore, many perceive the theme of this novel to be achieving the American Dream; an idea that people in America, the land of opportunity, could achieve success and prosperity through hard work and perseverance. However, I believe that Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby as a warning for how

The Roaring 20s, The Jazz age, the 1920s were a time of great prosperity in the United States. The 1920s were an era of change, both politically and socially. Americans began to move into cities, rather than living on farms, and the nation's wealth more than doubled. Buying the same goods, listening to the same music, dancing the same dances, and overall having the same values, people felt united. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, these values are reflected in the characters’ lifestyles. A recurring theme in the novel is that money cannot buy a person’s true happiness, and this theme is exhibited in the various characters actions, choices, and what they value most in their lives.

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.

The Great Gatsby was written by F.Scott Fitzgerald,a typical author of the Jazz Age，which filled with visional American dream and economical prosperity.Simultaneously,the morally bankrupt and spiritually pollution behind the light.At that age,wealth was the only standard to measure the success.Gatsby’s death was a tragedy to that age and was regarded as the corrupt of American dream.As for Daisy,she was regarded as the centre of Gatsby’s dream.The death means the failure of Gatsby’s dream then means Daisy was the main factor to leading to this tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most recognized names in American Literature. This is true because of his book titled The Great Gatsby. This work of his seemed to cast a shadow over the rest of his novels and short stories. Although many people may not know about a story called Babylon Revisited, it is definitely one of Fitzgerald’s finest stories and one that is worthy of praise and further analysis.

“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald starts out by introducing the narrator, Nick Carraway, who has just recently moved to West Egg. Nick’s cousin Daisy, who is married to the wealthy Tom Buchanan, happens to live across the island on East Egg. Next door to Carraway lives Jay Gatsby, the mysterious man who throws extravagant parties each week exhibiting extreme hospitality to his numerous guests.