The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is also clear from both novels that the main characters are severely corrupt. The characters are both part of society in the books and therefore, add to the emphasis on a corrupt society. There is speculation in the novel as how to Gatsby came into his wealth. There are many indications from people whom attend his parties, as to where the wealth stemmed from, crime. It is even said that "Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once." Others say that "it's more that he was a German spy during the war." The word “spy” suggests something corrupt about his new found fortune as it has connotations of him being secretive yet violent. This shows a corrupt society because people are speculating about Gatsby’s wealth, with thoughts of him being a criminal, yet still attend his parties. Another connotation of people attending his

In the Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby built up his wealth hoping he could win Daisy back. Daisy who was in love with Gatsby, married a man name Tom for "old money". Nick becomes friends with Gatsby and is Daisy's cousin. There is "a lot that is realistic in The Great Gatsby" but there is "also a strain of counter-realism.” (YaleCourses). Throughout the novel we find that all three characters are untrue with themselves and none possess true identities. This lack of authenticity in the characters is what leads to their downfalls.

The roaring twenties was the period known for its exuberant, overwhelming and free pop culture of all time. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, represent the past historical modernization of a male subjugated social system. The Great Gatsby is a mysterious love tale, and a social interpretation towards the American Life. This story explores the journey for happiness and wealth through the American Dream, and shows how perfectionism, deteriorated relationships, and deceitfulness occur during the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby, however, is not the story about a woman’s journey for happiness and improperly shows the representation of females during 1920. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby shows the historically male controlled social system through women being portrayed as shallow beings, which are dominated by men, and seen as flawed individuals.

Overall the story of The Great Gatsby is a tragic story of gain and lost. It is a story of money over shadowing love and happiness. Through all of the pain and suffering Gatsby still loved Daisy and gave everything for her. Though there are many parts in this story that money and material things can block out love and happiness, through friendship and blind love I think in a sad way even though it killed Gatsby and sent Nick back to the Midwest love did

The novel, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the 1920s America, New York - a class society of money -, depicts a society which exists in a state of moral confusion and chaos, through the eyes of the narrator; Nick Carraway. Fitzgerald condemns the character’s tendencies in the novel to become greedy and materialistic in order to be successful, displayed throughout the chaos that arises as a result of the repercussion of these actions. This chaos continues to grow through the unfaithful marriages and illegal practices that exists extensively throughout the novel. Furthermore, Fitzgerald explores the prejudice discrimination between the newly rich and those with “old money”. Through all of this we come to see that during the “roaring 20s” was one of moral disorder and mayhem.

Tom and Gatsby shared a corruptive nature that came along with the wealth and power. Corruption sullied Tom’s morals and led him to cheat on Daisy and have an affair. Corruption had a similar effect on Gatsby. Gatsby was mysterious and there were plenty of rumors about him. Gatsby intentionally created this mystique to hide his corruptive history. Gatsby acquired his fortune through corruptive business ventures, dealing in alcohol trade. Gatsby’s dream of a relationship corrupted Daisy into cheating on Tom and having an affair with Gatsby. Even though his intentions were noble, Gatsby’s corruption would ultimately lead to his

While Gatsby’s dream of attaining and starting over with Daisy remains pure, his means of achieving his dream are, unfortunately, corrupt. There are plenty subtle hints about Gatsby’s immoral practices yet unadulterated heart throughout the novel. For example, in the beginning of the novel a woman at one of Gatsby’s parties chatting with her friend states, “You look at him sometimes when he thinks nobody’s looking at him. I’ll bet he killed a man” (44). This statement doesn’t bluntly say he is corrupt but gives honest insight into his public image and inserts the thought that Gatsby could have possibly been involved in illegal actions during his pathway to wealth.

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald employs the use of characters, themes, and symbolism to convey the idea of the American Dream and its corruption through the aspects of wealth, family, and status. In regards to wealth and success, Fitzgerald makes clear the growing corruption of the American Dream by using Gatsby himself as a symbol for the corrupted dream throughout the text. In addition, when portraying the family the characters in Great Gatsby are used to expose the corruption growing in the family system present in the novel. Finally, the American longing for status as a citizen is gravely overshot when Gatsby surrounds his life with walls of lies in order to fulfill his desires for an impure dream.

Gatsby is not corrupt. He may have shady things but all were driven by the one thing that preyed on him. His objectivism of Daisy. His American dream was perverted by his love of Daisy, of making him lie, deceive, and break the law. first, Gatsby lies to Nick about his origin, fabricating the origin of his wealth,where he grew up, and what he does for a living. He does this all to ensure Nick likes him enough to introduce him to Daisy. Once Gatsby does meet Daisy, they become lovers; he sustains this affair with Daisy, by going behind Tom’s back. Although he tries to come clean to Tom, Daisy Prevents him, force in game him to continue the lie. Finally, Gatsby commits a crime when he helps daisy cover up her role in Myrtle Wilson's death. Gatsby

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald details of water and the bay are used to act as focal points in the rise, climax, and fall of Jay and Daisy’s relationship. Fitzgerald first mentions water at the exact same moment that he mentions Gatsby; by using a nautical metaphor to explain the story of Jay Gatsby, the author expresses the important role that water plays in the character’s life. When narrator first meets Jay Gatsby, Gatsby is looking out across the bay and extending his hand towards a green light, which marks the house of Daisy Buchanan. In this scene, Fitzgerald introduces the amount of desire that Gatsby maintains for Daisy, and the inclination of a relationship begins. Fitzgerald climaxes the relationship of these two characters when they are finally reunited and dwelling in each other’s arms, able to look at the bay together. The final phase of the relationship occurs at the end of the novel, when Fitzgerald explains the various aspects of the bay, such as Gatsby reaching over it towards the green light, and the wake of the character 's dreams. The author concludes the relationship by preventing these instances from being able to happen again. In the novel, Fitzgerald uses various aspects of the bay, such as Gatsby extending his arms over the water, the green light that mark 's Daisy 's house, and the wake of Gatsby 's dreams to act as central points that inform the reader when the relationship of the two characters is rising, climaxing, and

In the book, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby is exemplified through many symbols and idols. Fitzgerald uses cars to represent wealth, success, status, and glamour. As Friedrich Nietzsche states, “There are more idols in the world than there are realities.” Nietzsche’s quote shows how idols and symbols are used to create impressions. Images are powerful and set a stage for others to judge one’s character, enabling human beings to avoid seeing what realities are. Idols are potent enough to mask the truth. In the novel, despite Gatsby 's own insecurities, he is viewed as an idol in society. Idols impact and influence Gatsby’s life and those living around him. Gatsby’s car represents an idol, illustrating his wealth, capturing attention, creating impressions, and covering misconceptions throughout life in the West Egg.

There is a huge irony in Gatsby’s character because when the reader starts to learn him he gets a feeling that he is an empty, flashy rich man. But as the story progresses he learns that Gatsby is driven by a pure, good reason - the love of his life Daisy. He values his friendship with Nick as he wanted to thank Nick for the date with Daisy. The way he proposed the business to Nick in my opinion is very innocent and he even does it in a shy way, what advocates for genuineness of his action. “Why, I though - why, look here, old sport, you don’t make much money, do yo?”(Fitzgerald 82) But what is even more ironic are the people that actually represent the moral decay. The first person is Daisy. In the beginning of the novel Daisy is revealed to the reader as a vulnerable and hurt sweet, young lady, towards which he can feel empathy. However, towards the end of the novel, after Gatsby has put his entire life to be with her, when she has to choose between Gatsby and Tom her choice false on the second due to the fact she found out who Gatsby was. She, instead of a man that purely loved her, chose stability and confidence in future even though Tom was cheating on her.(Fitzgerald 133-134) This is in fact also ironic as Daisy supposebly a woman that should hate perfidy, betrays Gatsby by choosing Tom. The second person is Nick. However, he doesn’t directly represent decadence, but he is a hypocrite. He claims that he “is inclined to reserve all judgement”(Fitzgerald 1), yet he does the opposite with every single person he meets. He had his negative opinions on Tom, yet he pretended to be his friend when he didn’t have any acquaintances in New York. He was judging Jordan for her dishonesty after she told him about the gold incident, yet he kept the affair with her going as he couldn’t physically resist her charm. He, what is very

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, provides a dark and pessimistic outlook into the American life style in 1922. Jay Gatsby, an American wealthy social identity, appears to have it all. But wealth, stature and an extravagant lifestyle seems not to be enough for Gatsby; he still yearns for his old idealistic love Daisy. In an ideal world this has the making of a great love story with a happy ending, but Fitzgerald chose to carry the story as a reflection of the American era the book is set in. An era consumed by appearances and excess and overall pursuit of the American dream.

Gatsby’s life gets corrupted by the power of love and money because Gatsby has the dream of getting back with Daisy in his mind all throughout his life but everything he attempts to do to make that dream come true leads to his life getting corrupted. One of the main events in the story that show this idea is the green light because the green light itself shows his dream of getting back with Daisy and then his life getting corrupted because of all of the different things he did to try and make that dream come true. Gatsby worked with Dan Cody and Major Wolfsheim to try and earn more money but it just ends up being a corruption for his life and Gatsby also tries to impress Daisy by making big parties which fail and he also tries to help out Daisy in the end but it all just fails and leads him to getting murdered. A statement about life that I have is to never get too confident on the things you are trying to do to make a dream come true because it can just lead to a disaster in the end, always take a good decisions and think about what you are going to

* Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to really face that fact and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist. In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the corruption of people and society is one of the major themes. Several characters in the novel clearly have corrupt backgrounds, such as Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. In the end, each character's corruptness is proven in their perspectives and actions, and each one's flaws directly reflect the corruptness of society as a whole in the 1920s. Consequently, some characters' corrupt natures eventually crush their dreams and lead to their downfalls.