The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald Essay

F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the popular novelists of twentieth century America. He is the representative novelist of the age because his novels deal with the American life in 20th century.

Thesis: The pursuit of the American Dream is a dominant theme throughout The Great Gatsby, which is carried out in various ways by F. Scott Fitzgerald, how the author represents this theme through his characters and their actions is one small aspect of it.

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, a man named Jay Gatsby dreams of winning the love of a Daisy Buchanan, an upper-class woman who is married to Tom Buchanan. Before the current time present in the novel, summer of 1922 in Long Island and New York City, Gatsby and Daisy meet during October 1917 when Gatsby was a military officer who was stationed in Louisville. They fell in love, but Gatsby had lied about his social class to present himself as someone who was good enough for her. Gatsby had to go overseas and Daisy said she would wait for him but by the time he came back, Daisy was already engaged to Tom. Five years later, Gatsby and Daisy meet again and the two lovers act as if the five years in between never happened. Daisy and Gatsby drive to Long Island and on their way, Daisy runs over Myrtle Wilson, Tom’s mistress. Gatsby takes the blame for her leading to Mr. Wilson shooting Gatsby. Nick tells Gatsby, “You can’t repeat the past.” Gatsby responds saying, “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!” Throughout the novel and the last five years, Gatsby tried to win back the love of Daisy but never rekindled the relationship they had in Louisville and although at the surface it seems as though Daisy loves Gatsby as he loves her, Gatsby never truly had a real chance of getting her back.

In the past the American Dream was an inspiration to many, young and old. To live out the American Dream was what once was on the minds of many Americans. In The Great Gatsby, the American Dream was presented as a corrupted version of what used to be a pure and honest ideal way to live. The idea that the American Dream was about the wealth and the possessions one had been ingrained, somehow, into the minds of Americans during the 1920’s. As a result of the distortion of the American Dream, the characters of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby along with many others, lived life fully believing in the American Dream, becoming completely immersed in it and in the end suffered great tragedies.

The 1920s is the decade in American history known as the “roaring twenties.” Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is a reflection of life in the 1920s. Booming parties, prominence, fresh fashion trends, and the excess of alcohol are all aspects of life in the “roaring twenties.”

When Cody died, he left the boy, now Jay Gatsby, a legacy of $25,000. Unfortunately

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, many of the characters live in an illusory world and only some can see past this. In the novel, West Egg and its residents represent the newly rich, while East Egg represents the old aristocracy. Gatsby seeking the past, Daisy is obsessed with material things, Myrtle wanting Tom to escape her poverty, George believing that T.J. Eckleburg is God, and Tom believing he is untouchable because of his power and wealth are all examples of the illusion v. reality struggle in the novel and Nick, the only character aware of reality, witnesses the fall of all the characters around him to their delusions.

1. We see all the action of The Great Gatsby from the perspective of one character whose

Any American is taught a dream that is purged of all truth. The American Dream is shown to the world as a belief that anyone can do anything; when in reality, life is filled with impossible boundaries. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald gives us a glimpse into the life of the upper class during the roaring twenties through the eyes of a moralistic young man named Nick Carraway. It is through the narrator's dealings with the upper class that the reader is shown how modern values have transformed the American Dream's pure ideals into a scheme for materialistic power, and how the world of the upper class lacks any sense of morals or consequence. In order to support Fitzgerald's message

In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald writes about the distinctions between the social classes and status during the twentieth century. Fitzgerald's novel takes place in the 1920's after World War 1, which was a time of excess and wealth. The "roaring '20s" set a perfect stage for Fitzgerald to use setting to explain the differences between the three social classes in his book.

When reading a book you should be transported into a world that you can both relate to but also learn from. In the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald you are effectively transported into the early twentieth century. You see many things that people living in 1922 would have to go through as well as things that are still relatable to today. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald shows you many images to effectively convey and highlight his themes of the innocence and lose of innocence, differences in social classes, and the american dream.

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, about half of the main characters present themselves as something they are not. Throughout the novel, the theme of passing is apparent in Nick, Jay Gatsby, Daisy, and Myrtle Wilson, although they are all passing, each does it for a very different reason. Many scholars have touched on the idea that these characters are not who they appear to be and that their passing is associated with social class issues of the 1920s. Fitzgerald’s characters are built around the idea of passing and social class restrictions.

During the early part of the twentieth century, the American culture fantasized about achieving a successful future with financial stability and the opportunity to thrive in a world that it only dreamed about in the past. In the novel The Great Gatsby, the main character Gatsby, is not worried about money, which he has accumulated through the years, but instead has created an intense attachment to a woman whom he had once loved, and never has stopped loving. His “American Dream” does not involve monetary stability; instead the only thing that he wishes to attain is the love and control over Daisy. His fantasy has developed into an unreachable love that destroys his life at the end. In the case of Tom, his attachment to Daisy has also became a way to prove his male dominance, he might love Daisy, but he only needs her to feel secure. This attachment to the past and the love that both Tom and Gatsby is completely contrary to what the “American Dream” many times signifies. Although The Great Gatsby was written during this time, the “American Dream” for both Tom and Gatsby, is not involved with financial stability, instead it is focused on a love fantasy and attachment to Daisy, a fantasy which has been used to prove their male dominance and superiority.

Many of us want to be remembered when we pass away. For most, the best way is through an obituary. Almost every day, there are numerous obituaries submitted to many newspapers, such as The New York Times. There are brief obituaries submitted by family members in which the said deceased individual played a major role throughout his/her life (whether it be charity or a major work accomplishment) and there are longer obituary articles written by reporters, usually on a well-known individual. When looking at those two kinds of obituary articles, there are many similarities and differences.

An Austrian physician by the name of Sigmund Freud, a well renowned psychologist, aside from his studies, was once rumored do have done enough cocaine to kill a baby horse. Other than his cocaine addiction he also developed the theory of Psychoanalysis, which in short means that he studied the longstanding difficulties in the ways that people think and feel about themselves, the world, and their relationships with others. Sigmund Freud’s ideals of psychoanalysis was translated to in a way where we are able to analyze media in all it’s shapes and forms. Psychoanalytic media analysis argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the characters within a movie, and the literary work is a manifestation of the Id, Super-Ego, and Ego. The text that I will analyze using the psychoanalytic media theory will be the film The Great Gatsby, originally a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I will be using Freud’s primary psychoanalytic theory of the ID, Ego, and Super-Ego to analyze the movie The Great Gatsby, and also analyze the potential cultural and societal impacts of an authors use of psychoanalytic theory.