The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nick Carroway is the main character of the book “The Great Gatsby”. The significance of this character being in the story is that he is an ordinary person who lives a regular life. The author expresses Nick Carroway as the main guy throughout the story. In the beginning, he lives in a regular home and works in the bond business. Coming to the end of the story, Nick turns dark realizing what happened in his life. The author describes Nick Carroway in the novel as a dynamic character because he changes from one person to another in situations.

War is seen as nothing but bloodshed. However, for many this allows them to shine in a way that they could not back at home. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it is placed in the post war era. Gatsby, one of the main protagonists, is a war hero that fought in World War I. World War I is important to The Great Gatsby due to how integrated it is to the past of Gatsby and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick’s unreliability as a narrator is blatantly evident, as his view of Gatsby’s actions seems to arbitrarily shift between disapproval and approval. Nick is an unreliable and hypocritical narrator who disputes his own background information and subjectively depicts Gatsby as a benevolent and charismatic host while ignoring his flaws and immorality from illegal activities. He refuses to seriously contemplate Gatsby’s negative attributes because of their strong mutual friendship and he is blinded by an unrealized faith in Gatsby. Furthermore, his multitude of discrepancies damage his ethos appeal and contribute to his lack of dependability.

The novel Great Gatsby and the short poem America go great together both describing their views on America during this crazy time period of change. Great Gatsby was written by a man named F Scott Fitzgerald he wrote this book in 1925 during Great gatsby was written by a man named F Scott Fitzgerald he wrote this book in 1925 during the times when the American dream was the same for everyone.The 1920’s were the age of miracles Fitzgerald had said: "it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire." Fitzgerald loved to write books about love and greed like his book The Beautiful and Damned and This side of Paradise. Claude Mckay grew up loving writing and making poems. He was known for his during the Harlem

The character of Nick Carraway has shown many similarities and differences with the film and the novel. In the beginning of the film, Nick is seen in the setting of a mental institution in which he was admitted for alcoholic issues, the death of Gatsby, and disgust of old friends. Nick is telling the story of Gatsby and the people he met in the time of living in West Egg next to Gatsby’s mansion. In the novel, Nick starts off by telling his younger days when his father told him as he was about to leave for New York, “‘Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone… just remember that all people in this world haven’t had the advantages you’ve had’” (Fitzgerald 1) In the novel Nick is said to be childish and uncomfortable but in the film he appears sophisticated and and easy

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.

Jay Gatsby is one of the most crucial characters in the book of The Great Gatsby and throughout the book he isn’t happy at all because he lacks the ability to deeply look at other options other than just his love and dream, Daisy. He invariably fails to look at other ways to be happy because in his eyes, his only option that he observes is the option to get Daisy Buchanan back as soon as possible, but he has one problem; Tom Buchanan who isn’t willing to let go of Daisy. Gatsby 's only way to happiness is having Daisy back so that he could recreate the past. Gatsby had the opportunity to attend Oxford and get a heavy education with a great promising future ahead, instead his wish to get back home and reunite with Daisy again. He never saw

This response intrigues Nick’s interest in Gatsby, helping the mythical like legend of Gatsby develop from the very beginning of the novel. This encounter is integral to the story, not only for Nick, but for the reader as well. By Ms. Baker telling Nick that he “must” know the host of the party, Nick becomes fixated on discovering who this man is, and the reader is left wondering who could this mysterious man be. This curiosity of discovering the man named Gatsby is the basis of Nick’s continued interest and relationship with the protagonist throughout the novel. Nick is cut out to be an unreliable narrator in the telling of the story, for in the beginning of the novel, Nick states himself as one who has the ability to reserve judgement. As the story develops, Nick will eventually come to pass judgement not only on Gatsby, but all of the other major characters as well. Fitzgerald constructs Nick’s character in this manner, giving a higher value to what Nick says, along with what he thinks. This is done because, as the moral center of the entire novel, Nick is the only character who is outside looking in, the only one who is not accustomed to this fast life. By adding a higher value onto what Nick says and thinks, Fitzgerald has further developed Gatsby, and his mythical like aura. Throughout the novel, Nick does quite the opposite of praise and glorify Gatsby, but no matter the circumstance, Nick always comes

“To do two things at once is to do neither”(Syrus). As Publilius Syrus suggests, in an age where multitasking is more common than the ideals concencentration, it is important to reconsider the capabilities of man. The idea of taking on multiple tasks underlines man’s capabilities in that it often gears the mind in two opposite directions with equal power. In this regard, though it may seem efficient, it is actually vile for man to attempt to sustain multiple projects that gear toward opposite directions. This idea is confirmed by F. Scott Fitzgeralds’ The Great Gatsby, a novel in which the protagonist Jay Gatsby illustrates why man isn’t capable of taking on two equal and opposite projects at the same time. Gatsby fails to conquer Daisy

Most Americans work hard to be better than others, achieve perfection, and hide their imperfections. Americans will do anything to hide their imperfections. This idea is present in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby and in Tennessee William’s play, A Streetcar Named Desire. In The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker and Jay Gatsby appear to be living the wealthy and perfect American lifestyle compared to Nick Carraway, a man who was born and raised in the midwest and is renting a small house in West Egg, Long Island. However, Nick realizes that these innocent looking people use white to cover up their corruption and moral dishonesty. This is similar to when Blanche shows up at her sister’s doorstep wearing all white in A

mind of who they want to be and how they want to lead their lives. These ideas are usually very different from the actual identity of a person. Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby , by F. Scott Fitzgerald the search for identity is continuos. The main characters are on a rollercoaster of uncertainty trying to protect the images that they have created for themselves.

Individuals who approach life with an optimistic mindset generally have their goals established as their main priority. Driven by ambition, they are determined to fulfill their desires; without reluctance. These strong-minded individuals refuse to be influenced by negative reinforcements, and rely on hope in order to achieve their dreams. As a man of persistence, the wealthy Jay Gatsby continuously strives to reclaim the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan. Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay makes a substantial amount of effort to impress, and persuade Daisy to be reacquainted once again. Providing that, F. Scott Fitzgerald associates Daisy as Gatsby’s green light. Fitzgerald represents the green light in Gatsby’s life as a significant role to The Great Gatsby. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby’s green light symbolizes his undying passion for an idealistic goal that he aspires to accomplish; his green light indicates how he uses his wealth in order to acquire his desire, it also represents his American Dream.

In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway tells the story of his life in New York and his encounters with Jay Gatsby. He tells the story of how Gatsby’s death occurred and every event leading up to it. Somehow, everything leads back to three characters; Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, and Daisy Buchanan. In the novel, everyone played a role in Gatsby’s death but the person who was most responsible was Daisy with help from Tom and Gatsby.

The Great Gatsby, a story told by Nick Carraway, centers around the mysterious Jay Gatsby, Nick 's extremely wealthy neighbor. Gatsby throws gigantic parties every week for the other rich inhabitants of New York’s East and West eggs. Nick eventually becomes friends with Gatsby and learns he throws the parties to attract the attention of his lost love Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby pursues Daisy which eventually leads to his downfall. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby goes through the hero quest by leaving his normal world, experiencing an event sending him on his quest, and proving himself worthy in order to achieve his reward, the beautiful Daisy Buchanan.

When F. Scott Fitzgerald first came out as an author his works were not greatly appreciated as they are now. In the early twentieth century wealth, power, and status - otherwise known as the American Dream- were the goals of many. Fitzgerald used the American Dream as the backdrop for most of his works, and in doing so he illuminated the theme of self-deception. Most people in these times were not rich, powerful, or had high status so to deceive others and themselves they lied about who they were. Take his novel The Great Gatsby, the absence of anything real beneath masks of pretense and self-deception define the novel. Three of the main characters, Nick Carraway, Tom Buchanan, and Jay Gatsby, all demonstrate self-deception in one way or another. Even in Fitzgerald’s short stories self- deception is a reoccurring theme. Absolution shows a child protagonist, Rudolph Miller, who is inclined to habitually and instinctively lie just to look like the best version of him. In both of these works, Fitzgerald’s uses hypocrisy, narcissism, and delusions within his characters to demonstrate the three different forms of self-deception he believes are within humanity.