The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The American Dream has been around for years, and is forever changing. However, its basic principles of determination and purpose have always been around, except during the 1920s when they had become corrupted. This idea was shown throughout The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story gives great insight into what life was like during the 1920s from the characters’ perspectives. Through Gatsby’s lavish lifestyle, the readers get to see what the ultimate goal was for the American people at the time. However, what he had was not enough for him since all he ever wanted was to earn Daisy’s love. Gatsby’s dream was symbolized through the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock, which he use to stare at night. Fitzgerald uses the green light to compare Gatsby’s hopeless quest for Daisy’s heart to the unobtainable, corrupted American Dream. He does this by showing how obsessed the characters are with having a life like Gatsby’s, and by having him die at the end of the novel without having achieved his dream.

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven 't had the advantages that you 've had” (Fitzgerald 3). Many people are born into bad statistics for being able to achieve the American dream. Nick reveals this very early on in The Great Gatsby with this thought provoking quote. Not all people are born with the same advantages as others. There are many factors that have held people back from attaining their goals in our great country.. Despite the perception that Americans can move from rags to riches to live the American Dream, the trials and obstacles that underserved and minorities have to overcome reveals that the American Dream is a false hope.

The Great Gatsby, written by R. Scott Fitzgerald follows the story of a man by the name of Nick Carraway. Nick tells the story of his life while meeting the wealthy, esteemed Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby always aspired to be rich and live the lifestyle that came along with it. As Gatsby’s character becomes more in depth it is learned that he was in love with a rich woman named Daisy. Daisy and Gatsby meet a few years prior and fell in love. The problem was Gatsby was in no way wealthy. Someone of Daisy’s status could never be with a man like that. The two lovers eventually end up having to part ways. While Jay Gatsby’s life might seem like a dream with all of the money, fancy house parties, and pompous, high and mighty people it’s not so much

In the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main character, Jay Gatsby, is portrayed by Fitzgerald as a tremendous romanticist who, throughout the entire novel, tries to win over the love of his life. When Gatsby and Daisy are reunited, they start spending more time with one another behind Tom Buchanan-Daisy 's husbands, back. Daisy and Gatsby are enjoying one of their meet ups at Gatsby 's mansion one afternoon when Gatsby comes close to obtaining Daisy, however, he and Nick share some worrisome beliefs that perhaps, Daisy is falling too short of Gatsby 's illusion, which is the perfected vision of Daisy that Gatsby creates about her. Throughout the analysed passage, Fitzgerald demonstrates that dreams idealised in ones mind can never truly be attained and are better off being simply dreams.

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 idea that the “American dream” consists of achieving unlimited wealth, which ultimately results in unlimited happiness and eliminates all life’s worries, is challenged by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The novel outlines that power and wealth does NOT necessarily equate to happiness, the consequences of materialism, as well as the distinct differences and divide between social classes.

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 1920’s in the united States was a time of economic growth in which people lived frivolous lives by believing their money would make them happy. It was a time of alcoholic prohibition and a time of emancipation for women. Thus, it was a time of parties, drinking and wild women for those who could afford it. Those who were at the bottom of society were constantly striving for the top of the economic ladder.

After Nick left, Gatsby wandered through the house. AS he strolled from room to room, he couldn’t help but reminisce. Gatsby remembered the party, the only one that mattered, at least, to him. It had been even more crowded than usual. Nick Carraway had come, along with Jordan Baker. Those two had been pivotal to the mixture of jubilation and fear that now conspired within Gatsby’s soul. Gatsby signed and rubbed a hand through his tousled blonde hair.

“The Great Gatsby” is known as one of the great American novels set in the 1920s and tells a story of a man named Jay Gatsby and how he tried everything he could to get a girl, Daisy Buchanan, to love him only to end up floating in a pool of his own blood. One main aspect to the whole story is the idea of wealth and money. This can be seen at the front of the novel when Nick Carraway, Daisy’s cousin, talks about where he lives in west egg and that his cousin lives in old money east egg. Each side of town is wealthy but the old money looks down on the new money such as Jay Gatsby. The reason being that the Buchanan’s were born into money and didn’t have to work to obtain their wealth as Gatsby has. Throughout the novel this notion of being rich and wealthy is played out when nick goes to visit his cousin and he talks about her husband Tom Buchanan and how “even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach” (Fitzgerald 13) this shows that here is a person who has always been wealthy and has lived a life of luxury. As we find out later in the novel even with all this money and his wife, “the golden girl” (Fitzgerald 255) that he was having an affair leading one to believe that no matter what Tom had is was never enough for him. And one could even think of Gatsby in the same light. What if he did have daisy for himself would that be enough or would it be just

Written in 1925, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald follows Jay Gatsby in his quest to win back Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. Gatsby’s endeavor leads him from poverty to wealth, and eventually to death. The novel presents a clear picture of 1920’s culture in America, where people’s idea of the American Dream is simply riches and fame. The American Dream is the fundamental force which drives most characters in The Great Gatsby, but, in a dream driven by money, the characters are led to tragedy instead of success. Through his characters, Fitzgerald asserts his disapproval of the evolving meaning of the American Dream as social and moral values disintegrate within an increasingly materialistic and capitalistic nation.

F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you”. “The good life” can quickly dwindle into loneliness and sorrow, as portrayed in his masterpiece of a novel The Great Gatsby. Main character Jay Gatsby is an exceptional example of this. As Gatsby wanders throughout the novel trying to impress his lost love, Daisy Buchanan, throwing lavish parties and buying her useless things, only to find himself heartbroken and, tragically, dead. Is it better to have loved and lost, or to have never loved at all?

Post World War I, during the Roaring Twenties, women in The Great Gatsby such as Daisy, Myrtle, and Jordan, display the new ideology of women while attempting to reach the American Dream. Women embody the new flapper era and are expected to work for their own money and gain more independence after earning the right to vote. Flappers were seen as significant figures during the Roaring Twenties, as they helped define a new generation for young women who are trying to achieve the American Dream, “[Flappers] were also seen by many as the ideal young woman and was described by author F. Scott Fitzgerald as ‘lovely, expensive and about nineteen’”(Sauro 88). While all three of these women come from different backgrounds, they all yearn for the same thing: status, money, and power. Jordan Baker, Myrtle Wilson, and Daisy Buchanan all represent different portions of the American dream.

The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, which was considered as one of the most perfect work relating to art forms in American novels after James. The publication of The Great Gatsby prompted T. S. Eliot to write, in a letter to Fitzgerald, "It seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James ...".The reason why it is one of the greatest novels all over the world is not only because of its showing the cruel social reality in America during 1920s and the selflessness and merciless of human nature at that time,but also the novel 's unique narrative angle that Fitzgerald wrote the novel from the first person perspective. Fitzgerald com posed the figure “Nick Carraway” as the narrator of the story