The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tom Buchanan is a former football player of Yale. Whom is the husband of Daisy, and lover to his mistress Myrtle. He comes from a well off Midwestern family. Unlike Nick, Tom is a rather cruel, rude, and a racist man. A description in the story views him as vigorous; “Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and have him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward”. He condemns his wife for her adulterous behaver with Gatsby, but has acts of his own with a taken woman. Tom is rather wealthy opposed Nick, and can be over powering with it.

In The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald has a running theme that excessive wealth and materialism will lead to carelessness, corruption, and destruction. Most of the characters in the book reflect this theme, like Tom and Daisy as they were careless to run away from their difficulties because they have the money and leave their mess for someone else to clean it up. However, some characters go against this theme, like Jay Gatsby. He came from a poor family, but grew to become a gentleman, and used that to lead another life, become rich, and one day would get the girl of his dreams. He uses that money on parties for the people and trying to get Daisy to go with him. Then there is someone else in real life that goes against this theme named Elon Musk. He found his money through the internet as he started his career founding companies, one of them being Paypal. He now uses this money to prolong humanities survival with companies such as SpaceX and Tesla Motorsports. The American Entrepreneur Elon Musk and Jay Gatsby goes against Scott Fitzgerald’s theme of excessive wealth and materialism will lead to carelessness, corruption, and destruction by using their money generously.

One of the main characters in the Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan was a charming woman who was visually pleasing to men. She was married to Tom, a rich and powerful man, for his money. Tom and Gatsby are at Tom's house, when they both express a certain feeling that her voice brings upon them.

"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."

Many consider The Great Gatsby a beautiful love story. A literary review site, for example, says about Fitzgerald’s most famous work: “The Great Gatsby is probably F. Scott Fitzgerald 's greatest novel […] Gatsby is really nothing more than a man desperate for love”(The Great Gatsby Review). Popular opinion paints Gatsby as such: A man desperate for love, devoid of any evil. But a closer look uncovers a new side of Jay Gatsby because Gatsby, underneath his glorious façade, is a sociopath.

She lured men into her trap, such as Tom and Gatsby, to build herself up and to achieve her lavish goals. She manipulated each of them into obeying her every command, both to get her way and to allow her to have some power in a society otherwise wholly under male control. The only pleasure she gets out of life is in living a glamorous lifestyle surrounded by wealthy people and extravagant material goods. She has come to fully rely on the life built for her by Tom, the primary male figure in her life. This is proven when she chooses to stay with him even after he cheated on her for months and after she is reunited with Gatsby, the man she may have truly loved. She fears taking the risk of leaving her comfortable, lavish lifestyle. She is painstakingly aware of the blatant sexism that she faces, and she is quite pessimistic because of it. “ She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'All right, ' I said, 'I 'm glad it 's a girl. And I hope she 'll be a fool – that 's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool '” (Fitzgerald, 17). Daisy is intelligent enough to realize how the society they live in values beauty far more than brains in women. She conforms to this rigid societal expectation and attempts to live the carefree, unsuspecting life of the average young woman in the 1920s and avoids confrontational issues for the most part, such as her complex history with Gatsby. Her pessimism did

Daisy Buchanan – The girl of everyone’s dreams and married to Tom Buchanan. However, she thinks she loves Gatsby instead of Tom; she loved Gatsby before she knew Tom and before he left for WWI. (Dynamic Character)

Daisy Buchanan is Nick’s cousin, and described as a very beautiful woman. Outwardly, her personality is very frivolous and outgoing. She puts on a cheerful front and is constantly laughing, despite

Women are able to influence others through the simple effect of their voice. Daisy Buchanan, the cousin of the narrator Nick Carraway, is married to Tom Buchanan, a wealthy and strong man who was in the same social club as Nick while they were both at Yale. While Daisy is able to provide a little bit of power over Tom, she is also able

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.

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.

An often controversial and debated topic within most literature revolves around the morality of certain characters, and whether or not they are deserving of their accepted reputations. These questions come into play during contentious debates such as the infamous “good versus evil” and “angels and demons.” The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald induces the question of morality. Gatsby, a reserved and wealthy man who seeks the love from a past acquaintance, captures the “Lost Generation” essence as he devotes his life to partying and living an embellished lifestyle. But the question of whether he deserves the adjective “great” often arises. What truly determines if a character is deserving of their reputation? Is it the way people perceive them as a person, or their ability to live up to their expectations? Is it their level of morality, and if so, do their mistakes from the past affect their current determination of morality? Many avid readers would fight to prove the Great Gatsby is in fact not that “great” – maybe more deserving of the name “The Mediocre Gatsby.” But heated debates often spawn from the most controversial characters, illustrating the idea that the reader has the most effect on characterization. Their own interpretation of the writing and how they define morals could be the ultimate determination of a character’s true ethics, and whether a character’s reputation is fitting. In regards to the novel, The Great Gatsby is not deserving of his accepted persona

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, paints the perfect picture of a male dominated social system. This book explores the need for happiness and wealth through the iconic idea of the American dream and shows the relationships, materialism, and corrupts values during the roaring twenties. The Great Gatsby is a rag to riches story of a man who is in search of success to win his dream woman. This classic American novel does not offer a good female representation of a nineteen twenties woman, women are seen as property or a man’s accessory.

As we know, The Great Gatsby written by F.Scott Fitzgerald has prevailed more than half century. From this novel, we can see various characters’ performance in 1920s in United States. Obviously, what the writer expressed has a sustainable influence for successors. In my thesis, I will show my opinion about Different female values in the Great Gatsby.

After World War I, America offered the potential for boundless financial and social opportunities for those willing to work hard—an American Dream. The American Dream is defined as someone starting low on the economic or social level, and working hard towards prosperity and or wealth and fame. Establishing fame, becoming wealthy, having lavish luxuries, and a happy family would come to symbolize this dream. For some, however, striving for and realizing that dream ruined them, as many acquired wealth only to pursue pleasure. Even though the characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby appear to relish the freedom of the 1920s, their lives demonstrate the emptiness that results when wealth and pleasure become ends in themselves. Specifically, the empty lives of three characters from this novel— George Wilson, Jay Gatsby, and Daisy Buchanan—show that chasing hollow dreams results only in misery.